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G+ Advanced Photography Mentorship

After an amazingly successful G+ Photography Mentorship… I was ecstatic to start my 2013 taking my photographic transformation to the next level by participating in the G+ Mentorship Program for Phototgraphers Advanced Photography Mentorship with Ron Clifford. This post contains

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Sprout On Fire

In front of me, I see the jungle burning; behind me, I see green plants sprouting. We shall merge into the One from whom we came. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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G+ Photography Mentorship

In June of 2012 I embarked upon a journey… I applied and was selected to participate in Ron Clifford‘s 10 Week Photography Mentorship as part of the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers. This post contains the full story… enjoy. Moment

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Hope Springs Eternal

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but

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Mission 5 : Spontaneous Spring

The second portion of the mission Ron had us… ‘Go out with your camera and just shoot……whatever catches your fancy!’ So for this series I literally spontaneously walked out my front door and captured SPRING… the best part, I managed

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Mission 5 : Intentional Jen

For the first part of our Mission, Ron had us decide what we were going to shoot, how we wanted to shoot it, WRITE it down and share it with our mentorship community… THEN go and get it! This was

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Mission 4 : Four Prospectives

Okay, this Mission took a long time for me. I drug my heels like never before, had the commitments in my life exponentially explode (in a positive way), and got to have a breakthrough in grasping although my body demanded

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Wrapped In The Arms of Love

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ~Leo F. Buscaglia

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See How Her Tulips Glow

… no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I’d roamed in watching, watching for someone

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Daffodil Days Ahead

Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty. ~William Shakespeare

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Tip Toe Tiger

When she walked…she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle. ~Saskya Pandita

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Unity Belles

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. ~Kahlil Gibran

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Mission 3 : Focus Thru Bubbles

To deepen our mentorship’s discussion around ‘focus’, Ron shared the story of his teacher placing him inside a refrigerator box… no joke, he was/did, ask him to tell you the story. He shared how focus is commonly a struggle for

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Intentional Living Fullfilled

As some of you may be aware… I am an environmental geologist, who while embracing my physical disabilities, transformed my life into a nature photographer. What you may not know though, is that in addition to developing my photography skills,

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All It’s Cracked Up To Be

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in

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Frozen Growth

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but

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Mission 2 : Just Shoot It!

Habits… we’ve all got’m. Rather than share all the ones I have, the ones I like, the ones I make wrong, I will instead dive right into the one selected for development through this program… my voice. Somewhere along the

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Frozen Beauty

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. ~Camille Paglia

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Mission 1 : Letter to Ron

Greetings Ron, It is an honor to ‘meet’ you and have the opportunity to share my answers to your wonderfully introspective first mission of your Advanced Photography Mentorship hosted on Google+ through the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers. As a

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Stars Reflection

Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of

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Washed To Sea

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Eliot Do you see the wings?

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Lichen World Pour

. . . You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone. Rain will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon, long aisles — you never heard so deep a sound, moss on rock, and years. You turn your head

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Seattle Sight

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. ~C.S. Lewis I see a heart, a playful otter, and a flexed bicep… What do

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Let The Rain Fall Down On Me

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not television love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much

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Caught in The Act : The Butterfly Emerges

WOW… so those dials in Lightroom are powerful creatures. After yesterday’s dive off the cliff of creativity this beauty came to life! Or was I pushed? See what you did Ron Clifford ;o). Something tells me 2013 is going to

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Eventually They Fall : Seize The Moment

There are times as an artist when forces align, coincidences occur with profound impact, and a vision is born… only to fall. This photo was one of those times for me. It was captured by my camera last October while

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Let The Light Shine Through

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Frozen Sight

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Deception Falls

Injured Soul Fainted Eyes Returning from where? Weary feet Weak arms Treading toward where? Struggled in vain battles Fighting delusive enemies Erred by a deception The ancient deception ~Rixa White

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Only Fractured Within

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. ~Marianne Williamson

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Man of Stone Leads The Way

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. ~Adrienne Clarkson Cairn Today, cairns are built for many purposes. The most common use

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Holdin Strong

When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. ~Thomas Campbell

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A Path Before The Fall

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental

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Rainbow Within

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron Scientific Thought… Spiritual Thought… Rainbow Obsidian: brings light and love to one’s life. Allows for

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Holly Day Cards

And as, when all the summer trees are seen so bright and green, the holly leaves a sober hue display less bright than they, but when the bare and wintry woods we see, what then so cheerful as the holly-tree?

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Rippled by The Light

Whenever someone awakens fully, it effects human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a stone into a dark murky pond. Ripples of light! Not one word need be spoken. ~Leonard Jacobsen

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Fall as They May

May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of

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Autumn Growth

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest or a horse as we like or as they appear to us, but as they really are. ~Franz Marc

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Heart on a Vine

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine. ~Alex Lowe

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Then & Now

Final Post… I have to be jenuine and say… the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers ended WEEKS ago… yet as life would have it be, the piece that signified the ‘now’ that the program helped me become did not arrive

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Pink Bokehlicious

The Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Glowin

“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” ~Trina Paulus

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Eyes Can Seal

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Power of Emotions

Mission 7… Emotions This week’s G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers (okay… really it was weeks ago, I’m just playing catch up after back-to-back road trips) had us capturing emotions, reactions, & responses. As my life would have it, this assignment

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Goin on a Wildflower Safari

Mission 6… Space & Patterns This week’s G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers had us stalking patterns and making negative space positive. My opportunity to commit a felony on nature and perform visual reverse psychology was focused around my first annual

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A Soft Embrace

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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False Consumption

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished. ~Pico Iyer

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Bright Side

Inside you are sweet beyond telling! There is a sun in everyone. I become a mirror that cannot close its eyes to your longing. My eyes wet with yours in the early light. My mind every moment giving birth, always

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‘Why Don’t You Just Paint The Roses’… Pink?

Mission 5… Color This week’s G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers has us coloring the world ‘Wonderful’, admitting color perception is subject to emotional, cultural, experiential influence, and embracing our unique style/personal perspective… so this Alice decided to ‘paint the roses’

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Sphere Upon Sphere

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. ~Blaise Pascal

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