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Simply Roses / Not Simply Roses

The roses that I picked up on Monday continue to delight me with their soft color and layers and layers of petals. Yesterday I stacked them up on my work table and photographed them up close — Simply Roses with a shallow depth of field. Then I stacked images together, played around with more depth of field and finally created an abstract image by layering, slightly moving some of the layers, and using creative blend modes. This was how I distracted myself from working on my homemade book project where I am feeling stuck and stymied on how to proceed. Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Take Me Away!

It’s another cloudy day with poor air quality in Minneapolis. A little bit of freezing rain early this morning created havoc on the highways. And though I am thankful for the beauty outside, this morning I’m remembering a bath powder commercial from many years ago with the catch-phrase, Calgon… Take Me Away! I am dreaming of escaping to someplace warm and sunny with not a care in the world. In this fantasy I bask in the sun, wander with my camera, and soak up warm breezes with the scent of flowers in the air. But I’m not escaping to a Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Living in a Snow Globe

Today the sun is shining on a snow-covered world. Looking out my windows I still feel like I’m Living In a Snow Globe just before you shake it up to see the snow flakes falling. The trees and plants still have coatings of snow clinging to them from last week’s snowstorm and some of the evergreens in the neighborhood have boughs bending almost to the ground because of their heavy covering of snow. Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.    — Rumi I cannot remember a string of Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

2022 Favorite Photos

It has taken me longer than I expected, but I finally finished narrowing my 2022 Favorite Photos down to a dozen favorites. It took me a long time of removing, then adding back photographs, and finally removing again before I felt satisfied with this set of images. They feel somewhat mundane to me. Of course the miraculous resides in the mundane, for the genius of the mundane is that it is never filled with any of itself. And because it is not, it has ample space to house something as miraculous as the miraculous.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough But I Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Morning Light

Most mornings I sit in my bedroom chair beside the window to meditate immediately after I put on my clothes for the day. I’ve learned that if I don’t sit to meditate right away, I probably won’t take the time to sit and meditate later either. But sometimes the Morning Light delights me so much that I get up out of my meditation chair and find my camera so that I can make a photograph of what I see out my window. This morning was one of those mornings. With the snow covered trees across the pond a tint of Read more…

By Marilyn, ago