How much do you see?
What do you see?
I am not usually fascinated by architectural structures
or for that matter, most man-made things; I like the sensual and expressive
lines you find in nature, the patterns, colors and changes that occur.
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I
went to Indianapolis to cover my nephew’s Eagle Ceremony and take photographs
of the event. Prior to the ceremony I
visited the church where it was to be held.
The sun was brightly shining that day; it was rather warm for an early
February day in the Midwest. I first walked
into the small chapel at this eclectic European influenced building finding beautiful
stained glassed windows lining one side of the chapel, on the other side were a
few other stained glassed windows and one in the front above the altar.
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| Stained Glass Beauty |
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| Let the Children Come |
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| Teach Us to Pray | | | | | | | | | | | |
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They
were beautiful in themselves but became exquisite as the sun lit the chapel
like a fantasy where the light danced in bright colors across the floor and
into the atmosphere, on the walls and anything else it fell on. It played like little fairies dancing here
and there throughout the room. What I
thought would be something quite boring became a treasure of fleeting moments
only there for the afternoon dancing in partnership with the sun shining in
from the outside. As I began to study
how the light played and fell in the room, I could barely stop framing the
intimate details dancing before me.
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| Let the Light Shine |
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| Attention to the Light |
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| It's Becoming Clearer |
My
macro lens was on my camera and the wide aperture afforded some beautiful bokeh
enhancing the experience and letting me carry that to those who viewed my photographs
from this day. As I let myself be
consumed by what I was seeing, certainly not what I was expecting, but allowing
myself to see the intimate details and fleeting moments in time before me
outside the normal parameters of my expectations and thoughts it opened a whole
new world to see and love.
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| Visions of Color Danced In Her Head |
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| More than a Window |
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By allowing myself to see the ordinary in a new way, it
opened the door to taking with me a new experience and the photographs to allow
others to partake of the beautiful scenes I found before me. It made me enthusiastic to explore the
remainder of the church and as I did, I allowed myself to see beyond the
structure of architecture but the details and beauty in the light and
reflections, the detail, the textures, the shapes, values, line, form and color, not
as a building but as pieces of a whole.
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| Rosette Window-Second Presbyterian-Indianapolis, IN |
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| Ceiling Rows |
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| In the Cross-hairs of Seeing |
With eyes wide open, I looked. I
squinted, I lay on the ground, I stood on benches, I squatted, I stood up
tall. I looked down, I looked up, I
looked in front of me, I looked behind me, I seemed to spin in circles to
breathe it all into my soul and take away something new from an experience I
thought would be mundane and ordinary and cold; instead I discovered life in
the light and structure.
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| Sanctuary Reflections |
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| Columns of Light |
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| Walking Through Light |
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| Falling Colors |
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| And They Shall Mount Up with Wings as Eagles |
I let myself
feel and experience the excitement and the excursion, letting it breathe new
life into the experience and the ordinary became extraordinary and lovely.
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| Light Sparkles |
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| Second Presbyterian Church-Indianapolis, IN |
How much do you see?
Do you let yourself see when circumstances change or let yourself and
your plans become altered when you look and see and feel and experience what
you encounter? Do you let your
expectations be altered? What do you
see? What do you allow yourself to
see? How will your day change today
because of it?
