Road Map to the Universe……

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Posted in: Pilgrim's Chronicles

 

 

Strange thoughts come over you when you are photographing the most minute of nature’s treasures.  As I walked along Bandon Beach concentrating on what I saw on the sands, scanning very small areas while walking slowly and seeking for something graphic, something  interesting, I saw this black rock and lines in the sand.  As I looked through the lens adjusting my angle it became aware to me that this small 4″ X 6″ landscape was a microcosm of our world.

 

I think this must be how simply and at the same time complex God must view us in this world. Complicated and convoluted, but also beautifully simple.  We can choose to see our world as impossibly complex, or realize that in the fundamentals we can find the real meaning of life.

 

This little scene is really simple, and so is life; faith, family, friends and the joys of life. We over complicate our lives with stuff, money, fears, and misplaced priorities, the same thing that messes up a nice photograph, messes up our lives, too many subjects, not enough light!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 9th, 2016 at 8:29 pm

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8 Responses

  1. wade says:
    June 9, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    I really like this post…thanks for your thoughts. I like the idea of framing the analogy between the life concept and the photographic concept.

    It’s kind of poetic…and also like something out of a TED talk. Maybe you should do a TED talk…something like “Life Lessons from Photography.”

  2. Alistair says:
    June 10, 2016 at 4:53 am

    All those lines and they all end up at the rock – what is that a metaphor for? “Every knee…”?
    As an aside what SD cards do you recommend for the XT-1

  3. Mike E says:
    June 10, 2016 at 9:21 am

    A great post — simple and to the point! Well done!

  4. Steve Hurst says:
    June 10, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    Love the Photograph and the Post. If we throw all the “stuff” aside life is pretty simple. We are a small particle in Gods world that is worth His Son dying for us. He is the Rock and Abraham was told his descendants would be as the sands of the sea.