Hats a Go-Go Or Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Posted on October 22, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is all about those items which keep the heat from escaping from our heads or the sun from burning it. See HATS A GO-GO HERE AT CEE’S SITE.

My fun with hats is outlined below…

The hat must fit the expression.

or the occasion.

For instance this hat should never be warn before Dec. 12th or after Dec. 25th.

Ths hat, however, is entirely appropriate for airport wear any time of the year. IF YOU’RE A TELETUBBY!

It is also important when choosing a hat to consider the proper accesories.

…And when one should not accessorise at all. This “granny belt” was one of my poor choices.

The right hat can communicate for us those things we wish others to know but could never say.

For instance, this hat says, “I really hate my job.”

This one says, “I think we should have chosen a different place to eat.”

This hat says, “I may be fat but I am cool.”

And this hat says… Yeah I got nothin. 🙂

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Murals

Posted on October 14, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

We are in the second week of Cee’s “MANMADE CHALLENGE” and this week she has asked us to show her murals.

C.cada is the artist’s ministry of our church. A few months ago I asked our artists a question, “What is your God project?”

Several of our artists took up the challenge and donated their time and talents to refurbish the playroom in our local pediatrics ward.

Here are the results

Artist Lisa Johnson and her section.

Artist Elijah Haas at his post.

Ken Knowlton and his train.

The bridge that Charlotte Dorais built.

Wendy Brouillet the brick maker.

Cee’s Funn Foto Challenge: Made By Man

Posted on October 7, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week Cee has encouraged us to HAVE FUN DISPLAYING FOTOS OF MANMADE THINGS.

Just click on the underlined link above to see what other photographers have brought to Cee’s place for display.

Here is my sampling…

This sign found in “Museum square” in Amsterdam was one of several signs built by Metaalplan for the city’s Amsterdam China Week festivities. The other signs came down after the celebration but the city opted to keep this sign up on the Square and it has become a photographic hotspot.

This fountain in the Back bay of Boston is one of several recently built as part of Boston’s new “Greenway”. Excuse the finger please!

This building is in my hometown of Winchendon MA and was built by Ephraim Murdock & Co in the early 1900’s as the high school for our town. It is where both of my parents and most of my aunts and uncles graduated from. Today it is the Murdock Senior Center and is affectionately called “Old Murdock”.

The sky behind it of course was made by Jesus, the son of man and so I guess it also qualifies as manmade 😉

Fun Foto Challenge: A Terrific Smell

Posted on September 30, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week Cee has asked us to have Fun Depicting the sense of smell with our photographs. You can see how others achieved smell in picture by clicking on the underlined link.

Here are my smelly photos:

The gentle scent of the French Rose.

This is what the smell of Sandalwood Incense looks like.

The smell of wet dog in a tub.

The scent of pine in the air on a late winter’s day.

Fun Foto Challenge: Sense Of Taste

Posted on September 22, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Cee has challenged us to display taste this week in our FUN FOTOS. Mine are below. Other photos are tastefully done at Cee’s site and can be accessed by clicking the underlined link

A taste of fall

A summer meal with a side of corn

The taste that awakens

A taste of Holland

Fun Foto Challenge: Sense Of Hearing

Posted on September 16, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week’s challenge is to depict sound through photos. BANG! CRASH! BOOM! I love it!

My sounds in sight are below. CLANK AND SWISH your way over to Cee’s place after making some noise here and raise your voice to congratulate all her other contributors about the beautiful sounds they display.

The barking of a dog in the surf

An airplane overhead

A train leaves the station

Guys with guitars

Blow the trumpet in Zion

Share Your World 2015 Week #22

Posted on June 2, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This week I feel the need to start this post with Cee’s fifth question which is always…

What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful to serve a God who walks with His church through the deepest valleys (we have had some deep one’s this week read about it HERE ). No matter what we go through we always find Him not just waiting at the other side but walking with us through the fiery trial. God is so good and so faithful and He is an “ever-present help IN trouble.” Psalm 46:1

This week coming I am looking forward to getting back on track with my blogging and writing schedule. During the last month or so I have been rather spotty because of the pace of life and ministry. But I feel like I am getting on top of that and launching into a new phase of writing productivity!

Here I am, beginning that new phase by sharing my world and inviting you to share your world with others by clicking the icon above and flying over to Cee’s blog to read about other parts of the world that intersect there.

Here are the questions:

Complete this sentence: Never In My Life Have I….

Never In my life have I been to Africa or Australia or New Zealand or Alaska or Asia or…. well that should keep me going for however long I am to remain on this spinning orb of life.

Complete this sentence: My neighbour wants me to help her…..

My neighbor wants me to help her… Actually I do not think my neighbors want me to help them do anything. I live in the midst of a pretty huge DIY neighborhood and I seem to be the only one who cannot do most things himself.

Complete this sentence: When I was little I wanted…

When I was little I wanted to be a superhero. I would spend hours pretending I was Superman, Green Lantern or the Flash. I have learned though that being heroic is not about the grand sweeping gestures. It is about the commitment to walk a path of little faithfulnesses everyday. Without that commitment, no superpower no matter how awesome will make you a hero.

Complete this sentence: Will you come here to…

Will you come here on a regular basis? If so I commit to doing everything in my power to introduce you to a world of encouragement, hope and light!

The sun glowing

The underside of the clock on the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

Please click the Share Your World icon at the top of the post and it will take you to Cee’s blog so you see other people’s shares.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Unusual Angle or Point Of View

Posted on May 27, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week’s Fun Foto Challenge from Cee is soooper cool. I love taking shots from weird angles. Check out how others have seen the world from different perspectives by clicking the icon above.

Here is my gallery:

Sun through the winter trees.

Through a glass darkly

Through a glass darkly II

Smurf’s Home

On the edge of time

A heart of stone

Cee’s Fun Foto CHALLENGE: PINK!!!!

Posted on May 7, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

I have to admit that at first I was a bit intimidated by the notion of “pink” pictures. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t find much in my archive. But then I started looking and I found a plethora of pink. You can see other pinks by clicking the smiley face above. My gallery of fifty shades of pink (or seven) is below.