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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17 Responses
Hi Christine–
I just uploaded 2 images, under my flickr name of ‘myrabeth54’.
I like this variation of the poetry party!
Thanks–
Beth
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Christine, I opened an account with Flickr and added 3 photos to your group. It was fairly painless.
— kigen
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
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!)