The Response: Hands Full with Too Many Flowers — Jessica It’s a mash-up multi-exposure! My favorite cliche (boy, you sure have your hands full) mashed up with a Mother Teresa quote (“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”)
The Call: Glass Trees — Cheryl To the rest of the world, my glass seems full: six kids, homeschooling, blogs, reading, writing, photography, art. There were many times in the past when I would have not only agreed, but maintained that the glass was overflowing. Now, there always seems to be room for more. Perhaps […]
The Response: The Line Between — Cheryl I think, at its core, art is about rubbing out the line between what is tangible and what is felt or known instinctively. The challenge is getting that line to disappear. Few are able to accomplish it, at least on a consistent basis. The rest of us end […]
The Call: A Jumbled Mess — Jessica Yes, this is how my head feels at the moment. Fragments of different things I’m reading and viewing and thinking are all dancing around trying to come into some cohesive vision. I can’t say more than that. It’s too jumbled.
The Response: What is it? — Jessica The joy of abstraction is in the discernment — the puzzling out of the form and meaning beyond the surface. I want to qualify surface but I can’t really think of the right one: tangible surface or visual surface? My thoughts are in a constant stage of vagueness. […]
The Call: How Do I See Myself? — Cheryl Sometimes I think back over my early years and laugh. There is no way I could have envisioned my life the way it is now. In high school, I was led to believe that meaning in life was tied up with careers and what other people […]
The Response: Outside My Window Until I edited this shot a few minutes ago, I was undecided about what I would post. Having a little freedom to use whatever happened to be on my memory card today is a nice change of pace.
The Call: Where do I go? — Jessica I couldn’t come up with a call today — of course it didn’t help that I didn’t even think about it until 2:30. So since I was undecided, I decided that I would use the shot from the car ride home. All in iphone just shot into […]
The Response: Worries — Jessica Most of the quote posters you see on Pinterest remind me of the ubiquitous kitten-hanging-on-to-a-rope posters that were a staple of classrooms in the 70s and 80s. At any rate, I did see one the other day that I really appreciated: Worry is a mis-use of your imagination. Now, worrying […]
The Call: Prayer Impressions — Cheryl In his introduction to Beauty Will Save the World, Gregory Wolfe shares his thoughts on a book written by John W. O’Malley, SJ, called The Four Cultures of the West: O’Malley rightly stresses that the differences and clashes between the four cultures are not always about content. They are […]
The Response: Chickadee with Icy Background — Cheryl This winter has presented many opportunities for photographing snow, chickadees, and ice.
The Call: Cold Flight — Jessica I had another, very different image in mind this morning when I made the call. I had planned on doing more experimenting with multiple exposures. But then, when I began to play this afternoon, I really liked this one shot by itself. And it was too darn cold to […]
The Response: Ugh, a headshot — Jessica There were many decisions that went into taking the Nicely Evolved magazine live. Perhaps the hardest was finding a headshot that I was happy with. Maybe it’s vanity but it’s hard not to be super picky when you’re looking at more than ten photos of yourself.
The Call: Bear One Another’s Burdens — Cheryl Caddie is 15 years old. There are times when she can stand and times when she needs to be carried. We’ll likely have to make a significant decision about her soon.