Compare and Contrast

Hanes Barely There Ad. People Magazine, 2 Apr. Page 17.

I love this ad. I wasn't going to buy this issue, I was just looking through it because I was in the shortest line in the grocery store and I still waited over fifteen minutes to buy my stuff. I got to this ad, and burst out laughing.

Ad copy: Our new spring invisible Look(TM) bras are here.
No bulges. No bunches. No funny shapes under your clothes.
BARELYTHERE.COM

There is parallel structure and the images and writing really support the topic.
Color is used to advantage [peppers are sometimes sold in three-packs: one green pepper, one orange/yellow pepper/one red pepper...they're called stoplight peppers].

Shooting Honey

I was reading the Edward Hirsch poem on Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad in McQuade and McQuade when Honey leaped to the bookcase and began to lunch on the tulip leaves [again]. Windowlight ignited lush amber fur and turned tattered flowers to amethysts and emeralds.
The snarl of protest rising in my throat died. I reached for my camera and softly called to her, snapping the picture just as she turned her head.



Completely new experiences can be frightening. Once, when I was staring at a blank piece of hotpress paper in a watercolor studio class, my instructor Ann Iott, ambled past and left a divot of black charcoal in the upper right-hand corner of my paper. After I got over being angry [1.5 seconds] I managed to fumble through the first assignment. Operating under the assumption that anything is better than nothing, I submit this photo and a bit of purplish prose having nothing to do with the first assignment.