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There are such remarkable captures of life in the pictures to be seen on flickr - such extraordinary depictions of art here. I am so grateful for so many who post their art - it is inspiring and also revealing of the connection to a global reality that is easy to lose sight of in the busyness of one's day.

There is that tension for me between being a tourist and a pilgrim, so to speak, on this earth. There is much that visually attracts my attention. Yet, when I go in search of it - that flower, that building, that curve in the stream where the water flows just right - then I know I'm just a tourist with a camera dictating my every shot. It is, rather, those moments when I happen to have my camera close by and I awake to some stirring of light, or shape, or beauty, or serendipitous occurrence that captures my imagination long enough to have it inform me - oh those are the moments I treasure. Don't we all? So, I live most days in that tension, and often without my camera anywhere near by...and learn to appreciate whatever is before me. And when I can capture a moment now and again that is about the journey of life, then I feel most alive.

I am 'trainable' - I tell myself. I have much to learn from so many on their flickr pages. I do not feel I have 'found' my voice, or style, or niche through photography yet - but I am still on the journey!

Thank you for any comments or suggestions or re-directions you might offer me or my work. All is gift in so doing!

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