Welcome back to another episode of A'lil Hoohaa's monthly photo blogging challenge.
Our prompt for the month of April was "Point of View".
Point of view is nothing new. It has been a writing tool to describe the perspective from which a story is told:
First or third person?
Third person POV: When a narrator is a voice outside the story. An omniscient narrator knows everything. He knows what all the characters are thinking and feeling, even in the future..
Limited person POV: A narrator outside the story, knows what the characters know. If the character doesn't know who's hiding behind the corner, the narrator won't either.
Objective POV: The third person narrator describes what's happening, but doesn't know what anyone is thinking, not even the main character. Like a video camera that records the events, but only sees the surface of the events, and lets you, the reader / watcher guess what's going on beneath that surface. It allows no opinions from the narrator or insights into why characters do what they do.
And then there's social media.
POV is often (over)used to indicate a video or post where the creator shares content from a specific perspective. For example, someone might create a POV video pretending to be a character like their childhood self or an alien, in a certain situation, giving viewers a glimpse into that character's thoughts and experiences
Mentioning "POV" is a way for creators to package their content and make it more engaging, understandable, and relatable for their audience.
Maybe it's a generation thing, but I think there are no benefits in labelling your posts with POV. If your audience is too dumb to understand your content, you don't need them. Boom, my POV ;-)
Now enough of the talking, bring on the pictures already! I'm doing this POV thing my way:
I was on my way to a business network lunch meeting in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Literally outside the main station, where almost half a million commuters pass every work day, I looked down (geographical / physical POV) to the canal and spotted this gray heron. I've never seen this bird in my life, much less in such an urban setting and up close. He was on his way to lunch, as was I, and I think it's safe to say, he scored before I did.
That was it from me. Hope you had fun with my five six. Don't forget to visit my fellow blogger's posts.
In my POV, the roses take the prize! So gorgeous! April is a mish-mash of weather here too. Hot one day, cold the next and then there are the tornado storms......Dontcha just want to hug an alpaca? If your audience is too dumb to understand your content, you don't need them. Boom, my POV ;-) 😆 😆 😆Great take on the prompt!
ReplyDeleteLucky you, spotting that heron. We've only seen one so far this year - a great blue heron in flight over Lake of Many Springs. They really make you see the link between birds and dinosaurs, IMO. Ha ha re: the weather...we get all kinds of weather pretty much every month here and we had LOTS of snow in April. As for the alpacas, they seem to be as cooperative when it comes to taking photos as the elk around here are. We always seem to end up with at least one butt in our elk photos!
ReplyDeleteI learned today that it's been so long since I signed into my blogspot blog that I was signed out. Which led to a whole rigmarole recovering the password, etc. But I remembered you asking last month if the comment was from me, so I thought I'd better look into it. Glad I did, as my blogspot blog is a family only blog from when our kids were little. Lots of memories there that I wouldn't want to loose...maybe I'd better find a way to download my posts and save them to my local computer or cloud storage. Anyhow, thanks for your question last month...I obviously missed the window when blogspot got linked to your Google account.
Because we're further south, we don't get the snow, with the exception of in the mountains which are right behind us. That being said, there's still snow up there and we've had over 23 inches of rain since January 1st and we usually average only 13 for an entire year. So, needless to say, it's been wet here.
ReplyDeleteLove the alpacas!