What point is there in living if you do so timidly; guarded and hesitant about your thoughts, emotions and actions?

Life is about living, loving and moving through this great big world of ours, not timidly, but boldly, passionately and out loud.

Dance like no one’s watching.

Sing, laugh out loud.

Release your inner child.

And love with reckless abandon.

Live fearlessly, passionately, boldly and out loud.

Freebie and Photography Tip of the Week

We’re bringing you tips, tutorials, discounts and freebies each week in the Poetic Winter Photo Challenge! This week’s freebie and tutorial can be found at Faith’s blog, Sweet Violet. She created a few lovely, easy-to-use collage templates exclusively for our challenge. She’s also teaching us how to use and create templates of our own in Photoshop Elements as well!

*In case you’re wondering, the free photo enhancing texture and B&W actions are still available for download if you missed them the first time around.

Exclusive Discounts From Our Sponsors

Thanks to the following sponsors for partnering with us to bring you these fabulous deals; created exclusively for Poetic Winter Photo Challenge participants and valid throughout the month of February. Click on the images to be taken directly to their sites.

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I’m teaming up with Rebecca of Bumbles and Light, Alicia of Project Alicia and Faith of Sweet Violet for the Poetic Winter Photography Challenge – an inspiring 4-week photo challenge aimed at capturing the poetic beauty of winter through photography.

Just a few details:

All are welcome regardless of skill level, time commitment and geographic location.

Each Friday, we’ll have freebies, discounts to some of the hottest photography resources, photography tips and inspirational quotes or poems to get your creative photography juices flowing.

Share your favorite images inspired by the weekly prompt. The linky will remain open from 9am Friday – 9am Thursday CST. Link directly to your Poetic Winter blog post or Flickr photo, not your blog’s home page or Flickr Photostream.

Feel free to share your photos in our Poetic Winter Flickr Group as well and don’t forget to visit and comment on the previous entry in the linky list.

This time around, we’ll be pinning our favorite photos to the Poetic Winter Pinterest Board. Not on Pinterest and need an invite? Let me know in the comments section and I’ll be more than happy to send you one.

And last, but not least, don’t forget to grab our lovely button.

Next week’s prompt will be Passion. For a complete list of upcoming prompts, head on over to the Winter Photo Challenge page.