Sixty +. Once loved to ride bikes along Han River and to take pictures of Seoul - "New York City East". I traded that for an occasional trip to the Shenandoah Mountains.

 

I enjoy sharing God's creation and giving the Eternal praise. Three years ago I was diagnosed with stage four cancer. I should have been dead over 2 years ago. Through God's grace, He pulled me through refining fires, pruned destructive branches from my life, gave me another opportunity to shine. Who would not be joyful with such opportunity?

 

When asked if he believed in God, painter Henri Matisse responded "only when I'm working". Well, belief is but a starting point as one embarks on an eternal voyage. As a photographer, I agree with Matisse's experience: God's presence assumes the greatest salience when finding the Eternal's light and color in some temporal design, then working its magic through Photoshop. Check out Matisse's chapel at . The windows sing.

  

Many Flickr citizen leave well-meaning comments such as "good composition" or "vivid colors". God does the composition, paints the colors. A photographer merely has the honor of finding then capturing the picture. The Eternal may present a window into His world. My Flickr friends are invited to leave the quick-click comments behind, stop to smell the roses, to discover the Spirit within the photo.

 

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, head and heart is an artist.”

 

— St. Francis d’Assisi

 

When looking for celebrative music to inspire a picture, or messages that run true through the soul, I enjoy Virginia's own WPER - www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wper-fm , or the Australian station "Inspire" www.hope1032.com.au/ListenLive.asp

Need some "chill" sounds to help you through studying? I suggest www.chilloutradio.gr/

 

I am blessed to live in the 21st Century, where the Internet bring thoughts, images and sound of the entire world together in a beautiful symphony. Through Flikr, we share ideas, move from a Peshawar mosque to a Rome Cathedral, stopping enroute to share a walk along Rocky Mountain peaks or spend a moment with Laosian children.

 

Stop by the gallery titled "Spiritual Journey", www.flickr.com/photos/karl_wolfgang/galleries/72157623679... . It includes enlightning captures from my Flikr friends.

 

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A Flikr neighbor quoted "Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously by means of certain signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by those feelings and experience them."

-Leo Tolstoy

 

Another Flikr netizen offered: "Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, you intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.:

- Freeman Patterson

 

The challenge is to learn from others - how to capture a mood, an expression, a moment in time - then share with others what you have learned.

 

"Like red wine, a good imaginination should acquire good character with age." WOLFgang :)

 

You may see the salutation DE COLORES. de colores are Spanish words that literally mean “of colors.” In addition to being the title of a song used by Fourth Day movements, the words are widely spoken as both a greeting and way of bidding farewell. The many colors can be thought of as referring to the many weekends and the variety of people, from different nationalities and church affiliations, who have participated in Tres Dias. In addition, the song uses “colors” to describe the life of grace and the many facets of God’s love, as shown in both the beauty of nature and in the joy that His love brings to the hearts of men.