Changing Perspective

Posted on March 5, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Sometimes it’s not our circumstances that make us helpless. Rather it is our perception of our circumstances that bind and paralyze us.

“If a problem can’t be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.”
― Unknown Author 724

This post was created for “A Word A Week Challenge: Frames”

to see other frame photos and blogs go to

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-frame/

Waiting For What?

Posted on January 23, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This weeks challenge from “A Word in Your Ear” is WAITING. There are some great waiting photographs and maybe a few waiting poems as well at

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-waiting/

Here is what I have to say about wiating….

“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is “timing”
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.”
― Carolyn McCulley

They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength… Isaiah 40:31

A Word A Week Photography Challenge: Gap

Posted on January 3, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

I haven’t had time to play much with photography of late but I wanted to throw up a few photos I have been working on. Sue’s word a week challenge gave me just the opportunity I needed.

Check out her other subscriber’s work at http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-gap/

Here are some photos using the word: GAP

The Way to the Sea

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Herman Wouk

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, … Ezek. 22:30 KJV

A Word A Week: Arch

Posted on September 19, 2013 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week’s word from http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/ is ARCH! Take a moment and pop on over to see her other contributors.

Here are some awesome arches from my archive!

This is the Oude Kerk in Delft, The Netherlands. My sister and I made a trip to this city of the Royal House of Orange in April of 2013.

This is the entrance to Old Murdock High School in Winchendon MA. My father and mother matriculated her.

The arch of the Christmas chapel in St. Bavo’s in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

A Word A Week Challenge: Square

Posted on September 11, 2013 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week our photographic word from sue is the word SQUARE!

You really need to hop on over and see her squares from the city of Seville. http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/a-word-a-week-challenge-square-week-45/.

Here are my squares

Sqaures above the glass nut tree. Boston MA

Sqaure graves in the floor of St. Bavos

Delft square from the rooftop of the Nieuwe Kerk

Giant chessboard Keukenhof

Here are some other “square” posts. Hey! “It’s hip to be square!”- Hewey Lewis

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/a-word-a-week-photo-challenge-square/

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/a-word-a-week-challenge-square/

http://smallbluegreenfotos.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/a-word-a-week-challenge-square/

A Word A Week Challenge: Ornate

Posted on September 6, 2013 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week’s word for the week from ” A Word In Your Ear” is the word ORNATE.

Each week this fine lady plops open her dictionary and picks a word from the pages which land open. If you would like to discover more “ornate” posts go to http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/a-word-a-week-challenge-ornate-week-44/

Here are my pictorial thoughts on the word “ORNATE”.

All of these photos were taken on my first trip to Holland. They are inside St. Bavo’s Church in Haarlem.