The Waters Of Life

Posted on May 29, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Cee’s Fun Foto challenge this week is “WATER”.

Check it out at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/27/cees-fun-foto-challenge-water/

Here is my take on the subject
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“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“The next time you think you’re perfect, try walking on water.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour

I chuckled when I read that last quote. It wasn’t perfection that allowed Jesus to walk on the water; It was faith and obedience. Both of those things always make a way to get the impossible done.

On the Move

Posted on May 12, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

this post was created for the Daily Posts’ Weekly Photo Challenge: ON THE MOVE

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/on-the-move/

Here are my thoughts on the subject

: A different kind of water wheel, Kokenhof

: Cheese wheels in Alkmaar

“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Watching From the Window

Posted on May 10, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was created for: A Word A Week Photography Challenge

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-watch/

To see how others have interpreted the theme WATCH click on the above address.

“LOOKING

The world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make their way home, hungry and tired. The bushes outside become ghosts while baths run and kitchen windows steam up with the cooking. This is the smell of our home, where I have a place in the wrinkled hours making beds and hugging boys awake. This is the sound of the house where I feel out lives into words, translate ragged nights and days into something whole, or try to. You may look if you wish….. The world goes by, and what have you or I to do with it, except perhaps for looking… ?”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN

Skywatch Friday: Spring Sky

Posted on May 2, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere

This post was created for:

http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

Posted on May 1, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

Howdy Everyone! I am getting back on track with blogging after my second illness in two weeks. I finished with the flu and promptly caught a horrific cold. I am on the upside of that now and would love to be enjoying the flower gardens right along with Cee. Since however it is all of 40 degrees and the only thing growing in my garden right now is frustration I thought I had better share some pretty-pretty pics from last years trip to Holland.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan

Check out more flower photos at:

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

Out From the Shadows

Posted on April 24, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was created in response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: SHADOWS

Find more about shadows here:

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Blaise Pascal

When walking through the ‘valley of shadows,’ remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Austin O’Malley

Shoot & Quote: Whole

Posted on April 16, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was created for Ese’s Shoot & Quote Challenge.

Like most things I have been creating lately this is more conceptual than realistic but it seems to be the space I am in right now.

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eyeis evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Luke 11:34

Find more whole shots & quotes at Ese’s blog

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-whole/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns

Posted on April 10, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This post was created in response to

See how some of my fellow-blog-laborers answered this challenge at:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/07/cees-fun-foto-challenge-patterns/

Here are my thoughts

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

The Water Dandelion, Keukenhof

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

In Our Mist

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

This post was written in response to Ailsa’s Travel Cahllenge: MIST

To walk into the mists of other people’s creativity go here:

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/04/04/travel-theme-misty/

Here is what came out of my fog:

Whitney’s Pond From Ingleside Winchendon MA

“God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we’re walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Eagle Heights, WInchendon MA

“The hill pines were sighing, / O’ercast and chill was the day: / A mist in the valley lying / Blotted the pleasant May.

Robert Bridges

Zaanse Schans, the Netherlands

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

― Rachel Carson