IBK Word and Image

Category: Seeing In New Ways

  • Same Place Different Season

                      I’m delighted to say that my health is restored. After spending so much time indoors recently I was waiting for a sunny day during this snowiest of Februaries in Denver and when the partially sunny day arrived last Friday, I grabbed my camera and made my…

  • A Moment in Time

                              The camera can never fully capture what the eye sees and adjusts for and the heart remembers. But as a photographer I have the privilege of trying to capture a moment in time that will remind me of a place I have…

  • Looking at Something Familiar in a New Way

                              We often think of the sacred as something that has to do with religious practice or activity. Yes it does, but I’d like to offer that the sacred is everywhere present in our ordinary lives, but to see it  it we have…

  • Letting Go

    Happy New Year! I’m getting ready to attend a photography conference of the Professional Photographers Assn. (PPA) later this month in New Orleans . I’m a bit intimidated.    One of the opportunities at the event is to present 12 photos for critique by professional judges. Today I opened my  5 star (best) photo folder…

  • A Partridge with a Heart in a Fir Tree

                      Oh wait, that was a “Partridge in a Pear Tree on the First Day of Christmas “in a song of the same title.  Anyway my little bird and I hope that you and yours will have precious songs   to sing in the coming new year.…

  • It Will Find Me

    ©2004 IBKimage   My mom died earlier this year and as we approach the first anniversary of her death I am reminded how much she loved flowers  and instilled that love in me.   Another memory is that she often lost things and then would search for days only to declare:  “This time it’s gone…

  • Another View

                      My kitchen window sill always delights with its gift of autumn’s light in the late afternoon.  After a lesson on focusing and composition by a photo friend I was absolutely delighted with the technical accomplishment of shooting a shiny object in sunlight without overexposure and the…

  • Seeing in New Ways

      Often we avoid that which will take us in a new direction.  Today’s photo came at the end of a night shoot at the Camden Harbor in Maine.   Night shots require a tripod. I really dislike carrying a tripod, and I almost skipped going to the evening class. Anyway I “schlepped” my way…