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Category Archives: photography
Light: Advent Word 15
Let light perpetual shine upon us.
Focus: Advent Word 7
In the spring of 1965, my father entrusted me with his Kodak Brownie camera to take along on our sixth-grade field trip to the Salado Indian cliff dwellings at Tonto National Monument. Photography has been my passion through the ensuing … Continue reading
Posted in Advent, photography
Tagged Advent, bokeh, depth of field, focus, photography
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Awaken: Advent Word 1
This year, I have decided to participate in the daily discipline of #AdventWord, a project of the worldwide Anglican Communion designed to create a global Advent calendar where we can share images and meditations that reflect the spirit of this … Continue reading
Posted in Advent, photography, religion
Tagged Advent, awake, photography, religion, sunrise
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Something Old
I still have the tattered Golden Book of Nursery Tales (1948) and Mother Goose Book of Nursery Rhymes (1953) presented to me at birth. At a time in my life when preserving the past evidently mattered less to me, I removed the … Continue reading
Posted in cemetery, education, history, language, memories, photography, World War I
Tagged cemetery, discrimination, history, identity, language, memories, photography, World War I
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Lent and the Incarnation: Our Bodies, Ourselves
We who call ourselves Anglican are often labeled incarnationalists. With our Creator, we believe that what he made is good and acknowledge on Ash Wednesday, “You hate nothing you have made.” With Gerard Manley Hopkins, we exult that “the world … Continue reading
Posted in musings, photography, religion
Tagged fast, grace, Incarnation, Jesus, Lent, religion, sacrifice, sin
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. . . And a Few More (Pictures, That Is)
I’m afraid I scared off more than a few potential readers by the tongue-in-cheek title I chose for my last post. “Juste (a Few thousand) Words” was meant as a play on the title of my blog and the hackneyed … Continue reading
Juste (a Few Thousand) iWords
Today, with both student essays to grade and a personal writing assignment of my own to complete, I decided to try something a little different for my recently neglected blog. I have been a camera snob since I picked up my … Continue reading
The Artist’s Left-Brained Creative Sister
These are some of my dirty secrets: I won first place in the Arizona state spelling bee in 1967, and I got a prize (not first) in the state math contest in 1971. My entire freshman year of college, I … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, music, musings, photography, writing
Tagged cemetery, creativity, darkroom, identity, limitation, mot juste
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