I seldom get into the many lakes around here, but there’s a good chance of finding me lakeside with my camera.

The Call: Backyard Battles — Cheryl This is Jack and his friend Ryan. They are usually on opposing sides, but once in awhile they put on a unified front.

The Call: When the House is Quiet, I Can Hear the Rain — Cheryl I got up earlier than most today and had plenty of time to listen to the drops hitting the leaves outside the window.

The Call: Summer on Deck — Cheryl I think I could fill entire days—wait, more accurately, nights—with the creation of abstract images in Photoshop. This particular one was made with three different multiple exposure/ICM images of my spray-painted deck, the catkins that have been blown all over the deck, and lilacs swaying in the breeze.

The Response: Shades of Meaning (Unless You Change and Become Like Little Children) — Cheryl I’ve read — and believe — that if you think you have the virtue of humility, you don’t. A similar maxim seems to apply to art: if you’re certain you’re creating it, there’s a good chance you’re not.

The Call: Unconstrained — Cheryl I’ve started turning my walls into canvases for my art. I tape up pieces of paper, sheets of stickers, and lengths of tape. Then I shoot and shoot and shoot. Setting my camera to multiple exposure, tilting it, moving it, backing off, coming in close: all of it gives me […]

The Response: Refiner’s Fire — Cheryl This is one of those images that I won’t bother trying to explain (other than to say that it’s a composite created with two copies each of four different photos — two of them being multiple exposure ones). I had not planned on going anywhere near this direction, but […]

The Response: Faith, Home, and Hospitality — Cheryl Well, this is odd. I’m at a loss for words. As I thought about and created this image from three multiple exposure photos (one of a tree and an upper section of my house, and two of the Last Supper plaque hanging next to my front door), […]

The Call: Frozen Man and Dog in the Mountains — Cheryl I’m getting better about trusting the work—surrendering myself to it—and letting others find their own meaning in what I create. It is a beautiful thing and has everything in the world (and perhaps whatever comes next) to do with growing in faith. The image […]

The Call: Angel Rose — Cheryl “We are still being taught that fairy tales and myths are to be discarded as soon as we are old enough to understand ‘reality,’” wrote Madeleine L’Engle. Story is a very important theme for her. It goes along with truth and fact, and L’Engle differentiates one from the other. […]

The Response: Color and Shape — Cheryl I used to be very concerned about people understanding my intentions, but I finally realized that misunderstandings occur no matter what. We bring our own experiences to our interactions. There’s simply no getting around that. Perhaps I’ve swung too far in the opposite direction, but now I’m all […]

The Call: Give Me Pearls — Cheryl Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. —Eugene Delacroix (1798–1863)