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<\/a>My image of a silhouetted woman walking Ocean Beach was for me a moment of contemplation.\u00c2\u00a0 As the storm clouds began to break they left beautiful golden reflections on the still unsettled ocean waters.\u00c2\u00a0 The glistening sands seemed to whisper prayers of thankfulness.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps those prayers are for the empowerment of the people of Rwanda who have risen from the ashes of death to be re-birthed in the waters of their motherland, connected to the ground once soaked with the blood of their loved ones – mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and children.<\/p>\nHow do we fully relate and connect to the lands and peoples that cover the earth?\u00c2\u00a0 That journey offers as many paths as the number of people who take it.\u00c2\u00a0 Capturing the essence of that journey for me, of course, involves applying every f\/stop my lenses offer.<\/p>\n
Composition rules say it is not aesthetically pleasing to place a horizon line smack in the middle of an image, but I did it anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 I kept running along until I got to a specific spot where a lone beach walker was in the right hand corner of my image.\u00c2\u00a0 The top half is sky and the bottom half is ocean and sand which become united by the walker (or so I think).<\/p>\n I have given you two iris images, one with enough depth-of-field to get all the petals in focus and one with a very shallow depth-of-field so that only a few of the water drops are in focus and the rest of the petals, those in the background, merge into splashes of purples.<\/p>\n Some of you have already received my iris prayer-poem with a different photo.\u00c2\u00a0 I went back to the same group of irises in the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park for the images here.<\/p>\n Today my heart goes out to the people of Rwanda as they embark on their time of remembrance of the genocide that took place 20 years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Their flame of remembrance has traveled to all the districts of their country … Continue reading <\/a>So, after and during the rains of this past week, I turned my image-making to water. The beautiful reflections of the setting sun upon the ocean waters and the minute rain droplets dotting wild irises provided sacred connections for me.<\/p>\n<\/a>Iris, Blooming in <\/b><\/address>\nthe Morning Light,<\/b><\/address>\nYou absorb the nutrients<\/address>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 of Earth Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bounty<\/address>\nand push your way from the womb darkness<\/address>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 to the warmth of the light.<\/address>\nBetween the green you unfold in amethyst beauty,<\/address>\nYou play and dance in Ruah breeze,<\/address>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 your unfolding petals sway in praise.<\/address>\nFlower within us, Sacred Song Sister,<\/address>\nthat, opening to spring life,<\/address>\nwe leave dormancy and death behind.<\/address>\nDeliver us into the gardens<\/address>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 of new creations.\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\nBlessed be! Blessed be!<\/address>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\npoem \u00c2\u00a9 Stacy Boorn 2014<\/p>\n<\/address>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"