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: It’s Hard to Go Wrong with Flowers — Cheryl Bridget and Henry received lots of flowers after the final performance of The Merchant of Venice. I shot multiple exposure images of them yesterday and liked the results so much, I did it again today.
The Response: As One Incapable of Her Own Distress — Cheryl I have 148 photos from today’s shooting. In looking through them initially, I starred one that really stood out, even though there were many with lots of potential. When I sat down to edit, I didn’t feel like hunting around near the end of […]
The Call: Closed Circuits — Cheryl A long time ago, in what seems like a different life, I wrote a post (or two) on my homeschooling blog about conversations among books and readers. I was able to find an excerpt that seems especially pertinent to the connections I’m experiencing now, as everything I read seems […]
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 Response: Paper Flower with Stars, No. 1; a Flower as a World —Cheryl She [Georgia O’Keeffe] painted flowers as no one else painted them: in enormous close-up. You feel the flowers pressing against your face; you smell them; you sense the silky petals. The flowers are partly realistic … and partly abstract. … The […]
The Call: Beauty of Words — Cheryl Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. –Willa Cather My studio is now covered with glitter. Of course, that makes Stella and me happy. Today, when I ventured out for some errands that included haircuts for the boys, I […]
The Response: Revelations — Cheryl Sometimes the truth smacks you in the head; sometimes it simmers in the back of your brain; most of the time, it fractures your carefully constructed world.
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: 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: Blue with Cold — Cheryl This was a tough image to finalize. I played with temperature, clarity, tint, saturation. The multiple exposure sometimes throws me for a loop. I look at my images and like what I see, but start to doubt. “Nobody else will get it,” I think. “This is not what […]
The Call: Where the Light Gets In — Cheryl Jessica continues to inspire and challenge me. Today it was an email about in-camera motion blur and multiple exposure. I went with the second technique for this image: three different photos, stacked in camera, and tweaked a tiny bit in Photoshop.
The Call: Dream Fish — Jessica The weather was beautiful today — cool, clear and breezy — so we went for a walk in the botanical garden down the road. I used the camera’s multiple exposure feature to grab a few shots of the koi and the clouds merged together. I was hoping it would […]