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Tuesday Texture Play

Quote of the day:  “Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.” — Jonathan Lochwood Huie  Yesterday I had a lovely photo walk in Wayzata, MN. Part of the time I was working on a Doug Beasley Vision Quest Cards photo assignment, but part of the time I just wandered and enjoyed the lovely summer day. I’ve been playing more and more with HDR photography and as always I love to play with textures. Here are some photos from yesterday, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

The Art of Seeing – Week 12

Quote of the day: “For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson This week’s Art of Seeing exercise is a repeat of last week’s Art of Seeing in which I used Doug Beasley‘s wonderful Vision Quest Cards: Photo Assignments For Personal & Spiritual Growth for my photography self-study/challenge assignment. Two weeks ago I drew the card that says, “Take a walk, stop every 21 steps and make a photograph. Challenge yourself!” Last week I went for a walk in the woods, stopping every 21 steps and afterwards decided to repeat the assignment somewhere in the Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Friday Gratitude – A Blissful Week

Quote of the day: “The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson This week I restarted a practice of writing down 3 things I’m grateful for each day. It is such a lovely practice. Each day I always seem to find more than 3 things I am Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Living Prayer

Quote of the day:  “I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. … Work and worship are one with me.” ― Susan B. Anthony As I explore living each day from the heart and building my photography business in response to what calls me, I’ve come to see my work as prayer—a living prayer that takes in the wonder and beauty of nature and people and places and responds with love and gratitude for all that is. My work is also a prayer that sees the beauty of each person and reflects the beauty Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Uncharted Paths

Quote of the day: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” — Henry David Thoreau I made this photo on a bright spring day. I don’t know who the walker is but loved her sassy boots walking on the path. Each day we have a choice. Do we walk the path that Read more…

By Marilyn, ago