My Chi-town

                 

                 

Ripple Effect III

                   

             

Things Unseen

                          
                          

For A Moment You Were There

             
                

Photographer's Journal: Louisiana Landscapes

                  
                     

Palmetto Fields Forever

Yesterday I had the great privilege of preaching and leading Morning Prayer at Christ Church, St. Joseph. I love doing that. Beautiful church, lovely folks. Inexplicably, they also seem to appreciate my sermons. I mean, they always take me to lunch afterwards! :)

But I confess there's another reason I love to go to Christ Church: I leave a little early, take along a camera, and turn it into a bit of a photo outing as well. And if I'm really fortunate, as I was yesterday, the weather is beautiful and I had no Sunday afternoon obligations to force me home.

And so I spent a gorgeous afternoon stopping and shooting all up and down Highway 65. You'll see more of those photos in the coming weeks.

For the moment, this one I took on the way to St. Joseph. I have observed many times that while the trees are yet gray and leafless and most of the undergrowth has not yet come to life, the palmetto fields along Highway 65 are vibrant, glossy, dark green. And they extend as far as I can see standing on the roadway.

This photo looks like I've done a process called "selective color," which is to take out all of the color and then replace the color in only those items you want colored. But I didn't do that here. This is a full color photo. I love it precisely because it so clearly illustrates how the fresh, new palmettos--and a DMAP sign, of course--stand out in the otherwise gray landscape of early March woods in Louisiana.
       

Photographer's Journal: The Quarry

        
            

Home of the Wounded Healer II

So... this is three photographs stitched together in Photoshop--a "pano" in photog lingo. This is not a perfect job of stitching. I can see one of the seams. But I'm not telling where because I doubt if any of you will be able to see it!

But I want to try something a bit different. I want to make some pano landscapes where I stitch the images together like this, but don't line up the horizontal edges. Kind of like the WATERLINE montages. I like the idea of drawing attention to how the camera frame interrupts reality.

And this location is, of course, my beloved quarry.

  

An Altar in the World

                            
                                     

Dances with Wind

I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:6b

What's Saving Her Life Right Now

            
                

The Shining Word "And" I

"And" teaches us to say "yes"
"And" allows us to be both-and
"And" teaches us to be patient and long-suffering
"And" is willing to wait for insight and integration

--Richard Rohr

Things Unseen

                  
                          

Wing

I lay my wing

As a bridge to you

So that you can join us

Singing.

--Hafiz