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Wonder’s Absence

I get so wrapped up in the tasks at hand that mystery and wonder often disappear from my experience. The character of that absence varies. Sometimes mystery and wonder feel far away, but usually they feel palpable, as near as my skin, likely to appear at any moment, in any circumstance. That said, mystery and […]

Mystery Delights Us

wooden sign with graffiti

Wooden Chinese characters, graffiti, and one odd symbol on a sign in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   Not always, but often, I am delighted to find mystery, to come across any thing I do not understand. I am not sure why this is, but am grateful for the recurring experience. It certainly helped […]

Glorious Weeds

meadow buttercup and ajuga flowers

Meadow Buttercup and Ajuga: an alternative ground cover   If my backyard is a meadow of wild flowers each spring, it is because I mow around the wild buttercups and ajuga that pop up and bloom. At first there were just a few plants in my back yard but, because I let them go to […]

What God Sees

I wrote a prayer to go with this photo of shadows. Here are some steps I took along the way. “You don’t judge us, good Lord, by the shape of our shadows, the images made of us, or what people say. You see us as we are. Your light reveals all and redeems every imperfection […]

Mountain Storm

Mountain Storm

THE PHOTO Storm on Mt. Baldy and Flat Top Mountain, Utah. THE PRAYER How I yearn to be there miles away and high above there in the storm sleet stinging my face lightning crackling and exploding me small against the peaks witness to Your majesty Click here to visit my Photo Prayer website.

Foggy Woods

street lamps, fog, trees

Occasionally, not as often as I’d like, I take time to make photographs and share them with you. That’s what the photo prayer I sent out today is about. Robert Frost said it better in his poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Like Frost, I know whose woods these are. They are on […]

The Form of Writing

danny schweers relaxing

“The form of writing matters,” writes Christopher Calderhead. He says, “Humans are mark-making animals.” He does not say that making marks is what distinguishes us from other animals, or that making marks is our essence, just that it is something we do naturally, and that how we do it matters. Calderhead wrote this in his […]

Created In Our Image

Storefront mannikins in downtown Wilmington, Delaware

Trying to walk past mannikins is futile if you have a camera in your hand. Mannikins, like grave stones and sun sets, pull camera lenses to them and we, the image makers, have no choice but to release the shutters of our cameras and publish the results. This was made clear to me on Sunday morning, Sept. […]

Copy Protection

Click here to see high-res version of this photo

Here is something rare. I’ve posted a high res version of a photo on the Web. Click on the above photo, and a high-res image will appear in a new window. You can then right-click on the large image to download it to your computer, where you can use as your desktop image or as […]

Ice Cubes Melt

Ice cubes floating in blue plastic cup

Like many photographers, I keep alert, paying attention to my eyes when they are delighted. Since I travel little, and have little time to set up a shot, I rely on God, or perhaps you’d call it happenstance or serendipity, to provide my subjects. This photo of ice cubes melting inside a blue plastic cup […]

Turbulent Clouds

still from storm cloud video

An awesome storm front moved over the parking lot of Barnes & Noble tonight just as my wife, friends, and I arrived about sunset. I shot several minutes of video in the parking lot but then the lightning strikes alarmed my company, who started shouting at me. Then I moved under cover and shot these […]

A Moving Photograph

flowers river clouds

Let’s start with a still photo. Adding Movement — Is a photo better if it moves? Let me show you one that does if you click on the PLAY button. Adding Music — Is a moving photo better is you add music? Below I’ve added music by Milton Peasley from 2003, a piece he called “The […]

Truth Doesn’t Need Us Minnows

TRUTH painted on a wagon

We mixers of images and words will start with an image or start with the words. Today I started with this image of a trailer I passed while driving east on State Highway 9 near Haydenville, MA late on Friday afternoon, June 22, 2012. I was a mile down the road before I decided to […]

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