Daily Archives: December 31, 2011
One of the principles of composition that I love to teach is extraction, the pulling of details out from the entire scene. I was fortunate to travel up to Harlan, Kentucky yesterday to shoot some at an coal company property. There is wealth of color and detail images. I used a FX sensor DSLR with a 24-120 and a point and shoot for most of these images, bet you can’t guess which are which!? Think about what a small area some of the images are and imagine pulling details out of the overall scene! Some are straight shots, some HDR & some Topaz Digital filters.
These are chits, in the early days of mining each miner would take a number brass disk in the mines with him each day, when he came out of the mines at night he would replace it on the board, it was how they knew who was out of the mines and who was still inside.
My good friend David Middleton, a great teacher in the photography field once said, “If done properly, a photographer will spend 90% of their time looking for great subjects in great light, and 10% of their time shooting!” I agree! I hope these images give you food for thought as you explore with your photographic eyes!
the pilgrim
PS: A big thanks to Homer and Terri for getting us in to the property!
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This mornings In Touch Devotional was great, I’m sharing it in it’s entirety! Thank you Charles!
Matthew 4:18-25 New Living Translation (NLT)
The First Disciples
18 One day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew—throwing a net into the water, for they fished for a living. 19 Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” 20And they left their nets at once and followed him. 21 A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, repairing their nets. And he called them to come, too. 22 They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.
Crowds Follow Jesus
When Jesus called His disciples, they immediately dropped everything and followed Him. We might think, The Christian life must have been simpler for them than for us. When Jesus started walking, they fell in line behind Him. As He taught, they heard His voice. By watching His interactions with people, they learned from His example. But how are we to follow Jesus, since He’s no longer on earth? We can’t touch, see, or hear Him the way they could.
When Christ was about to leave this earth, He promised His disciples that He would send them a Helper who would never leave them. In fact, this Helper would actually live within them (John 14:16-17). Today we follow Jesus by hearing and heeding His indwelling Holy Spirit—that’s the closest guidance we can ever have.
The Spirit does for us all the things Christ did for His disciples. He guides us each step of the way and teaches us the truths of God. But His work actually goes beyond that. The Holy Spirit transforms us from the inside out and enables us to serve and obey the Lord. He helps us discover God’s will for our lives and then give us the desire and strength to follow the path He’s planned for us. All we have to do is follow.
An essential requirement for following Jesus is sensitivity to the Holy Spirit’s voice. The more yielded you are to His guidance as He speaks to you through God’s Word and during prayer, the greater your spiritual hearing will become. Hearing Him is the only way you’ll ever progress in your Christian life.
I encourage you to ask God to fill you with the Holy Spirit, to make you fully aware of His presence…..
the pilgrim
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