{"id":559,"date":"2013-01-07T04:15:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2013-01-07T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:50:33","slug":"it-is-an-epiphany-2013-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"It is an Epiphany – 2013 – week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PFAEpiphany, today, follows the 12 days of Christmas in the Christian calendar.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the celebration that commemorates the arrival of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Magi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who followed a star to find the Christ Child.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a season of light which the magi first experienced as they (outsiders) were drawn to one who was said to fulfill the promise of bringing to all people divine liberating love.<\/p>\n

That was the Magi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s epiphany.\u00c2\u00a0 How about your own?\u00c2\u00a0 The word conveys a sudden perception of the essential meaning of something or an intuitive grasp of reality via some illuminating discovery or realization.\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite meaning is that of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a revealing scene.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I have been offering you images I create as part of my weekly discipline of visual spirituality.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope they continue to be for both of us a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153revealing scene\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that draws us into sacred space, within\/out our own psyche\/soul.\u00c2\u00a0 By entering my images may you experience peace, challenge, beauty and liberation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c paths to your own epiphanies.<\/p>\n

\"PalaceFA-2013-001This first set of epiphany images, I confess, were captured and created on my iPhone.\u00c2\u00a0 For most of the year I will be using DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) captures, some traditional photograph skills, and optimization in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

These are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kaleidoscope\u00e2\u20ac\u009d images of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a wonderful place to photograph on winter mornings because of the intensity and direction of first light.\u00c2\u00a0 San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, designed by Architect Bernard R. Maybeck, was originally built for an exhibition that celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal and the city’s recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fire.\u00c2\u00a0 But the structure was not meant or built to be permanent and would eventually crumble.<\/p>\n

\"PFAHowever in 1960 both concerned citizens and local government had an EPIPHANY:\u00c2\u00a0 The loss of the Palace of Fine Arts would indeed be a great loss to the future and the people of the city. Fund raising and philanthropic donations resulted in the demolition and reconstruction of the palace in 1964, using plans by Hans Gerson, duplicating Maybeck’s originals.<\/p>\n

I love to photograph the Palace of Fine Arts and now put creative apps to work on its stunning morning colors and reflections.\u00c2\u00a0 If this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153revealing scene\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for you then come back next week for the next installment of visual spirituality.\u00c2\u00a0 I will also provide a few photography (drawing with light) tips!<\/p>\n

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Epiphany, today, follows the 12 days of Christmas in the Christian calendar.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the celebration that commemorates the arrival of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Magi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who followed a star to find the Christ Child.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a season of light which the magi … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,44,45],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2","tag-kaliedescope","tag-palace-of-fine-arts","tag-san-francisco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}