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Imagination

Yesterday while finishing up preparation for the painters’ arrival today to paint the downstairs ceiling and bedroom, I made a few photos of a hummingbird through my kitchen window. And I also photographed the flowers of a pretty little begonia plant. The photos didn’t look like much to me when I first downloaded them to my computer, especially the somewhat blurry hummingbird photos. But with the help of Imagination I transformed them and added them to my collection of photos featuring Mary Oliver quotes. Later this week I plan to print a few of them and see how they look Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Sail Away

Happy Labor Day my friends! What a string of gorgeous days we’ve been having. Doesn’t it just make you want to Sail Away to somewhere beautiful? I didn’t make the hang gliding photographs in this post. They are of my son-in-law doing one of the things that he loves (taken by a friend of his). And I offered to edit them for him, bringing up the shadows as much as I can. I love the sense of freedom I feel when I look at him gliding through the sky. Though I know I don’t have the skill or strength to Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

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