{"id":706,"date":"2013-11-15T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2013-11-15T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:34:57","slug":"nov-week-1-the-art-of-transitional-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Nov. Week 1 – The Art of Transitional Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nov<\/a>I love to photograph leaves in the fall when they have freshly dropped from tree branches and vines, often blanketing the ground and creating patterns that Joseph\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Technicolor dream coat may have been fashioned after.<\/p>\n

And I’ve grown to love the fall foliage here in the Bay Area.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a much gentler transition than my East Coast home where whole mountainsides are blazing red and orange with Maples interrupted by yellow patches of Birch.\u00c2\u00a0 Many times the simplicity of a single leaf tells its whole story without including every detail of how it got to its final resting spot.<\/p>\n

In the first two images below, notice how the image on the left is basically a record shot: the bench, the fallen leaves, the sidewalk and a hint of the tree trunk.\u00c2\u00a0 The second image is more intentionally honed. The maple leaves on the bench are photographed from above.\u00c2\u00a0 I was hoping to get the perspective of what you might see if you were the branch from which these leaves were recently released.<\/p>\n

The maple leaves on the bench are obviously larger than those on the ground, but you have to look twice to realize why that is so.\u00c2\u00a0 From this vantage point you cannot see the bench legs and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know if the bench is flat on the side walk or floating above it.\u00c2\u00a0 Without seeing the tree you still have the feeling that it is there and naked!<\/p>\n

\"Nov<\/a>The maple family is referred to as Acer, a word that has its roots in the Latin word meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sharp\u00e2\u20ac\u009d due to the distinctive points of the maple leaf.\u00c2\u00a0 Maple trees are renowned not only for being featured on the Canadian flag, producing vast quantity of delicious maple syrup or making great guitars and baseball bats, but also for the appearance and quality that enables them to transition a landscape from one season to another.<\/p>\n

Like nature, our lives are filled with many kinds of transitions.\u00c2\u00a0 Most people, myself included, dread transitions.\u00c2\u00a0 They often include hard emotional processes.\u00c2\u00a0 We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always see or even imagine the bright future that will eventually unfold.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet the fallen leaves are a sign that winter comes not as finality but as part of a cycle that will eventual lead to new births.<\/p>\n

I offer these images as a prayer of hope for the people in the Philippines who have been thrust into tragic transitions by typhoon Haiyan.\u00c2\u00a0 With winds of over 200 miles per hour and torrential rains, it has caused massive destruction, loss of lives and forced millions of people to flee their homes.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a>

Jack London State Park – Canon 70D using in camera HDR Capture<\/p><\/div>\n

Our help is needed to make a difference in affected areas.\u00c2\u00a0 Lutheran Disaster Response is responding to the most urgent needs of food, water, clothing, shelter, sleeping material and medicine.\u00c2\u00a0 Possible assistance will also include things like helping those whose livelihood of fishing or farming has been destroyed.<\/p>\n

You may make checks out to Ebenezer Lutheran Church (herchurch), and we will send them on to Lutheran Disaster Response, or you may contribute directly to LDR online.\u00c2\u00a0 Gifts designated for “Pacific Typhoon Response” will be used in full – 100 percent – to help with immediate and long-term needs.\u00c2\u00a0 Your generous offerings of prayer and financial support will help those affected as they journey to recover from this season when not only the leaves, but the skies were falling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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