Invitation to Photography: Summer Solstice
June 15, 2009 · by Christine
Welcome to the very first Abbey Photo Party!
This is a new experiment and sort of a twist on the regular Poetry Parties. Instead of my selecting a theme and image and inviting you to respond with words, I will select a theme and poem and invite you to respond with images.
Since you can’t post images directly in the comments section here, I invite you to add them to the Flickr Group I have created. Please do leave a comment below to let us know you have joined the party and feel free to link back to your own blog and post your image there too. If possible I’d love to have them all in the Flickr group as well (joining Flickr is free)! Share as many as five of your images in response to the theme. Feel free to take your image(s) in any direction and then if you have a blog, please post the invitation and encourage others to come join the party!
On the Solstice – Sunday, June 21st –I will draw a name at random from those who participate and send the winner a copy of Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as Spiritual Practice.
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Photo Party Theme: Summer Solstice — Embracing the Light
As sun scatters dark
She asks me to awaken
To the light in me.
-Christine Valters Paintner
The Summer Solstice is this coming Sunday, June 21st.
Those of us in the northern hemisphere are experiencing longer and longer days.
** Let the first Photo Party be a Celebration of Light! **
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Posted in Photo Party Invitation | 17 Comments »
June 15th, 2009 at 11:55 am
hi christine…i added “dancing in the light” to the flickr group as my offering to the party. (hope i did this right…i’m definitely not computer savvy!)
June 15th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
dear Christine,
by reading your poem, this image came immediately to my mind ["as sun scatters down", by apoyo (me)]:
I took it in Cozumel, an island near Cancun, in the Caribean Sea ( Southeast Mexico) a few days ago.
I find this image in itself an invitation to prayer
Blessings
Isa
June 15th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Christine, I opened an account with Flickr and added 3 photos to your group. It was fairly painless.
— kigen
June 15th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
stacy, isa, and kigen – thank you so very much for being my first three participants! beautiful, luminous images!
I will leave comments over at Flickr.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Thank you to all of you for the pleasure of these photos…and painting! They are all so lovely. I am busy making jewelry and vintage paper crafts but at some time I need to learn photography, as we want to have a jewelry site on the net.
All of this is a long way of saying that creating is sacred and a way of connecting with Creator. If I remember to engage in this each day, I am a much healthier person, in many ways!
Huge thanks.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I just joined Flickr and added a couple of photos too. The ones of the reflected sun at Singing Beach were taken on my farewell trip to the town where I grew up and my parents’ house and land after they returned to the Greater Light from which they came.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Welcome Andrea, I am so glad you have decided to join in the fun! Altering photos can have quite wondrous effects, thanks so much for sharing them — no worries about the number, just thought I should put a general limit. Blessings to you!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Love this idea. Took me a while to figure out how to post on Flickr but I did it!
While trying to figure it out I came upon a group created just for posting pictures taken on Summer Solstice 2009. Seems like a great idea. I will try taking one as well.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:49 am
I’ve posted my picture on my own blog.
http://differenceayearmakes.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/abbey-of-the-arts-first-photography-party/
I LOVE this new twist!
June 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Hi Christine–
I just uploaded 2 images, under my flickr name of ‘myrabeth54′.
I like this variation of the poetry party!
Thanks–
Beth
June 18th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Hi Christine –
I am a first timer to any of your parties, not a writer, but I do find the photo idea intriguing. Just uploaded 3 images – under the name Sambagrammy, and am excited to be included in the fun.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Great variation on the familiar theme thanks Christine. My images are under my Flickr moniker mumsjoy
June 19th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I am so delighted at the participation here and especially the new folks — welcome!
June 20th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Hi Christine.
I like the photo party concept.
It is the light in us that warms us to the light in our photographs.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Hello, Christine! Summer is especially welcom in the snow belt states. I posted a photo I took last week at a local lake. The water was still…the sun was luminous in the clouds.
June 20th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Christine, I love this idea. I’ve set up a Flickr account and will participate–next time. Life is only going to be so accomodating this week.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Thank you everyone, I love the wonderful photos shared at the Party and look forward to the next one!