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Finding God in Everyday Life

I am beginning to make progress on my new project, starting to find my way to a style that expresses what I want to say. And right now when I’m not calling it my Mary Oliver project, I’m calling it my Finding God in Everyday Life project. Today I worked and reworked photographs again and again until everything began to click. I love that the photographs I’m using are everyday photos of the pond behind our house, trees in the area, scenes of everyday beauty that are often overlooked. This is what I love to do. Leave the spectacular travel Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

More Than Happiness

I’ve been working on a new photography project and finding both frustration and joy in the process. True joy is More Than Happiness Joy is inexpressibly more than happiness, Happiness befalls people; happiness is fate, while people cause joy to bloom inside themselves. Joy is plainly a good season for the heart; joy is the ultimate achievement of which human beings are capable. — Rilke For me, the creative process is one of trial and error. I have an idea and then I begin trying to express that idea through my photography. Often I fail again and again to express Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Sunset Serenade

I love the light just before and after sunset just as I love the early morning light just before and after sunrise. But getting out to actually make photographs at that time of day has always been hard for me. Every once in a while I make a commitment to myself that today is the day that I will make that extra effort. Tuesday evening was the day I kept my commitment to head out for the sunset, even though I was sore and tired at the end of the day. I was rewarded with a Sunset Serenade The colors, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Bedazzled

Last evening I went out to Noerenberg Gardens for a sunset photo shoot. Upon entering the gardens I spotted a hummingbird moth. That was it for me! I was Bedazzled I don’t know how long I watched it and photographed it. But I do know that my evening would have been complete even if I didn’t make a single photograph. Simply watching it flutter from flower to flower and drink their nectar gave me enough joy to fill me up to the brim. The first time I saw one of these moths I was confused. What was it? A hummingbird? Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

A Call to Gratitude

Every day when I go out with my camera I hear A Call to Gratitude I look around and see the beautiful sky, blue water of the lakes, and green of the trees, I feel the soft breeze on my skin and the warmth of the sun. How can I help but be grateful? We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth, gifts we have neither earned nor paid for: air to breathe, nurturing rain, black soil, berries and honeybees, the tree that became this page, a bag of rice, and the exuberance of a field of Read more…

By Marilyn, ago