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Beauty and Grace: the Photography of Gray Giordan

4/29/2019

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I believe that beauty and Grace are all around us, every day.  The camera helps me to really see things that I often walk past without seeing.  By seeing beauty, symmetry and grace right where I am, I experience wonder and feel closer to my God.  I experience this Grace nearly everywhere. In the patterns and colors of leaves on the ground or how the light and shadow play on the mountains.  I feel that beauty, that reflection of Grace, is out there, perhaps not everywhere but in many places, happening so often that I only need to welcome it, be open to it for me to receive that Grace.
 
Mark Nepo says "In keeping the center of the I empty, the miracle of life can enter.  Art Wolfe, renown landscape photographer says, "Do not shoot with prejudice". I translate that to mean do not go looking for fish in the forest. There is much sage advice down the ages about not deciding before you see or hear.
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This photo is a good example of my belief that beauty in art and moments of grace happen constantly as a daily possibility.  The day of this photo, I had driven many miles to photograph a famous waterfall and was returning home.  I stopped near an orchard because of how the sunlight limned as a glow in the branches and leaves.  I had already taken some very fine pictures of the waterfall and could very easily call the day a success, yet I stopped.  I took some wonderful pictures of the light in the autumn leaves and, as I turned to leave, happy, I looked down. 
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For this I am grateful.

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