Mono Monday #6 - Intense at Play

Monochromatic Monday #6

Intense at Play

Because it’s mother’s day and partly too because it’s the time of year when child Development Workers(CDW) come together and be enriched by inputs from volunteers… I chose this picture for my entry this week.

It was taken two year ago when our college gang decided to have this family get together after five years of not seeing everybody altogether. And because we all live in different parts of the country or the world even…. The kids doesn’t know each other… they are literally clinging on their parent’s arms or legs when more people arrived in the picnic area…

But then kids are kids and soon enough they are playing, laughing and conversing with each other like long-time buddies!

Here’re the process:

· First, like what gary did the other week (as I said before I’m always a week or two behind)… I chose a not really attractive picture… hoping to turn it into a better one… (if it doesn’t well, tough luck cause I don’t have time to choose and convert another!)

· The 1^st thing I did was crop it to get only the children and make them the focus

· Then I opened it in picnik.com clicked exposure tab

· Adjusted the exposure and contrast then the shadows and highlights

· Then I went to the color tab and adjusted the temperature a little

· Then I went to create tab and clicked the BW…

· I wanted to make it look TIMELESS… CLASSIC… because children ARE like that, whatever era or place… and so I brought it back to the exposure tab and adjusted the contrast and exposure again to make it darker

· And finally framed it viagnette. Here is my Mono #6 now:

“Intense at Play ”

· I tried a different look too this week… to have something to go with this touching unforgettable line I heard when I attended Inter-Religious Dialogue and Intercultural Cooperation during the Mindanao Week of PEACE in December 1, 2007. I converted it to Pencil Sketch and below it the quote…:

“I remember when I was a child, I played with our neighbors and we didn’t really care about each other’s religion or race… of course we quarreled, as children often do, but soon enough we mend things and play again like nothing happened. It is when grown-ups or adults, (most of the time parents, relatives etc) get into the fight that things don’t get fixed and we cannot play the same way and we grow up like the adults that they were before us.

Now, I still wonder, WHEN, HOW and WHY did we STOP being children and became the distrustful, doubting, scared adults that we now are… But, I still hope, too, that we can start becoming CHILDREN Again.” - Amina Rasul Bernardo Mother & Lead Convener Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy To know, read and start learning Mono Monday click link image below: