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Word of the Day

I've seen, and been inspired by, many "photo a day" projects, so I thought I'd try one myself, with my own little grammarian spin: create a photo using a Word of the Day gadget on my Google homepage for guidance and inspiration. And what better day than January 27, my thirtieth birthday, to begin such an undertaking? (Okay, maybe new year's day, but I was too lazy to bother then.) This project is also to help keep me thinking and creating images the way DGrin's Last Photographer Standing contest has challenged me to do--a challenge I've found really enjoyable and creatively stimulating. Wish me luck (and perseverance) in this endeavor!
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    October 21, 2008 (Day 269) Synecdoche: figure of speech I've mentioned my penchant for purposefully taking things literally because I find it humorous, yes? My sense of humor is skewed, I know.This was adapted from a photo of my little model figure. The text is a favorite of mine from Boccaccio's Decameron.I wasn't actually satisfied with this truncated definition ("figure of speech" is so broad, after all), so I clicked through to Dictionary.com to see the full one: "a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or whole for a part or general for the special or vice versa." Clear and simple, right? o_O Thankfully, the first example was something we could all relate to:"Photographers had to resort to visual synecdoche, hoping that a small part of the scene—a wailing child, an emaciated mother, a pile of corpses in a freshly dug trench—would suggest the horrors of the whole." – Paul Gray, Looking at Cataclysms, Time, August 1, 1994
    October 20, 2008 (Day 268) Malfeasance: wrongdoing, misconduct, or misbehavior After being called out (very gently) by Gail for my neglect of this project, I made it a point to take a break from work today and hack this image together. :)This also gives me a chance to share some awesome news: one of my photos has been selected as a finalist in the FotoWeek DC contest and will hang for a week in Georgetown. I won't know for another month if I won anything or not, but the local publicity alone is going to rock. I'm thrilled!
    October 15, 2008 (Day 263) Waylay: to ambush or accost My P&S failed me yet again, so I present to you Monet cat. Argh!Back from Moab and have many photos to process, though nowhere near the volume I had from Scotland. Red rocks just didn't capture my imagination as much, I suppose.