Things Unseen

                               
                                                     
iPhone Diary: 4 April 2012 (Yearning)

                                                
                                            

Things Unseen

                                                     
   As Far As She Could Go                                         

                                     
                                          
Walk this path
with me he said
and she did...

as far as she could go.
                              
                                       

Gems of the Sea

                                         
                                          
Acid-Yellow Sponge

                                                 
                                               
Sponges come in an incredible array of shapes, sizes and colors. They are animals and feed by filtering seawater through their pores. They attach to rock, coral and anything on the bottom that stays still long enough. This is one I think of as beautiful in its gnarly, warty, acid-yellow ugliness!
                         
                            

Places & Spaces

                                          

Riverview Park Fountain, Shreveport, La.                                                                

                               
                                       

Selfy Sunday Project

                                      
                                                       
Sonata Pathétique

                                               
                                            
Every two weeks, a bunch of photographers who have found each other through the social network Google+ share self-portraits, sometimes around a theme. It's called the Selfy Sunday Project, and the purpose is to push ourselves photographically and as people. The theme for July 29 was music; we were to interpret ourselves in relationship to music. Here's what I wrote about my contribution:

The location is a quarry about an hour and a half from my home. I have been photographing this place for over two years and it is challenging. It has a stark beauty very hard to do justice to. This is the first time I was able to arrange being there as the sun was going down, and early evening light really transformed the place. You'll find an album called "quarry" on my profile page.

Sonata Pathétique is by Beethoven and I'm learning it on the keyboard/piano right now. To me it belongs here because this place is touched by both sadness and nobility--the sadness of a ravaged landscape and the nobility of nature that persists and regenerates beauty out of whatever is left.
                                                             
                                                 

Things Unseen

                                   
                                                   
Beyond Enfolding Darkness

                                              
Beyond enfolding darkness
God cries out
with longing;
angels weep for joy
to hear laborious prayers.

--adapted from Suzanne Guthrie

                                    

                                      

Things Unseen

                                  
                                                  
Wait for Me

                                                  
                                                     
I'll wait for you.
If I should fall behind,
wait for me.

--Bruce Springsteen