Forty-Six - Look Through My Window

I was looking for a different perspective today and found this. I didn't have a lot of energy, so I fired off a few, shot a couple for my one word project, and finally settled on my back, looking up. Interesting the things you find in your own house, huh?

I'm thinking about starting a photo series here, but I'm not sure about a theme. Does anybody have any ideas?

4:8 Project - Good Report

My beloved spoke, and said to me: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (Song of Solomon 2:10-12)

This photo is part of my 4:8 Project, a project/contest in which I plan to honor one photo left in my comments with each new post. Every four weeks, I will choose a submitted photo to win an 8 x 10 print from my photos - winner's choice. To participate, check out the info about commenting/entering and leave me a comment with a link to a photo of your own!

NOTE: To this point, I only have one comment with a photo, a beautiful, peaceful shot from Cheri for the word "Lovely." If you have a photo that fits any of the words in my original post, feel free to leave a permalink in a comment on any of my Project 4:8 posts. Just include with it the word your photo matches! Oh, and you can submit more than one! I'll be reviewing and announcing my first print winner on March 8, 2009.

Thirty-Eight - New and Old the Same

the new among the old
clustered together in tired and brown
fallen the same
in the sigh of today

the promise the end
all must fall
to rest

4:8 Project - Right

"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?" (Job 38:8-11)

Right - Righteous, observing divine laws. In a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God (from dikaios. Thayer's Greek Definitions.)

This photo is part of my new 4:8 Project, a project/contest in which I plan to honor one photo left in my comments with each new post. Every two weeks, I will choose a submitted photo to win an 8 x 10 print from my photos - winner's choice. To participate, check out the info about commenting/entering and leave me a comment with a link to a photo of your own.

Today, since I don't have comments from anything earlier, I really want to honor Susan Keller's "Behold He is Coming" post. Thank you, Susan, for sharing your hope today. I was deeply encouraged.

4:8 Project: Whatever Is...

This morning, I decided that I'm going to rework my Project 365 a bit and incorporate a mini-series of photos based on Philippians 4:8 (in several versions - NKJV, ESV, NIV, and The Message). Using the Shutter Sisters One-Word Project as a jumping-off point, I'm planning to shoot around one word from this verse each day (true, noble, right, just, honorable, pure, lovely, admirable, commendable, excellent, virtue, good, praiseworthy, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious) and spend my photography time looking for things that remind me of Him, instead of simply chasing a good photo.

I would love for you to join me in this project - if you shoot a photo that fits my word of the day (or any of the words above), please leave me a permalink to the photo in your comment. Each day, I will honor a photo I have received in a comment from someone that fits one of the words above. Every four weeks, I will select the owner of one photo submitted to choose and receive an 8 x 12 print of any photo of mine.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. (Philippians 4:8)

Thirty-Four - An Anytime Welcome

This is my unused key to my grandparents' house, a promise for a welcome never needed because they were always there to welcome me. Now they are gone, and the lock this key was meant to open no longer bears their welcome. Though blurring with memory and tears, that last urgent, meaningful "I love you" still turns a key in my heart.

Thirty-One - Spray Bright Evening Into Dark

Pete took me to the river tonight at sunset. Ten rushed minutes of cold shooting to catch one lovely moment with warm eternity. I love what I do.

Check out my One Word Project photo for today. And I have to share one very excited update: this shot made it onto the Shutter Sisters One Word site today!

Twenty-Eight - Glowing Vow

today
faded strands of gray
weep glow and color
promising shade
tomorrow

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This month, I am participating in a contest/project on Shutter Sisters called the one word project. My word for the month is promise, so many of my Project 365 images this month may follow that theme. You can see more from others who are participating here.

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Note on my Project 365 photos: I have finally decided how I'm going to do this thing: I'm going to post my photo in the evening after I've had all day to shoot, instead of trying to cram my photo time into the morning in front of everything else. I have tried doing morning shooting and getting the new photo up by noon, but that is proving way too stressful. I've tried all-day shooting and putting the photo up the next day, but that just doesn't seem accurate. So here's my new attempt at making this work with my schedule, and getting the photos up on the right day!

Of course, this does mean that I shot twice today. You know, for this shot, I'm not really that sorry.

Twenty-Seven - I Will Open

in the second month
when the frost still comes
and goes
she makes her vow
to spring
and hope
and wonder -

i will open
she whispers.


This month, I am participating in a contest/project on Shutter Sisters called the one word project. My word for the month is promise, so my Project 365 images this month will most likely follow that theme. You can see more from others who are participating here.

Explanation for this shot? BOY, I am lucky to live in the South! At least in February...