tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62042530190942069032024-03-05T23:28:11.521-06:00the Mighty Works ProjectKirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-68488396438226873902015-10-22T22:48:00.003-05:002015-10-22T23:20:22.357-05:00Rhap365 Day 38: What's in a Flame<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>YOUR QUEST, recommend titles for the photos!</b>Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-1675185483179587592015-10-15T08:31:00.005-05:002015-10-15T11:54:56.832-05:00Rhap365 Day 37: Last Light Color Boil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I will enjoy God, by finding a brain in the clouds, or thinking what how awesome it might have been, to have been Thomas Moran, *tonight.<br />
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Taken just after those dark cemetery swirlies the other day.</div>
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<br /><br />Palestine-Jones and the Big Swirl.<br /><br />I call this thing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rhapsody365?source=feed_text&story_id=10153164996937997">#Rhapsody365</a> (Day 36) but I really ought to call it DeathandDust365. Seems I am on a theme of all things parched.<br /><br />Indeed a little poemette came to me this morn.<br /><br /><br />Weed-seed and wither<br />Dustbomb and flicker...<br /><br />--<br /><br />I have a new habit. I like to drop in on off road cemeteries when traveling the backroads. This one on the highway north of Sheridan, AR.<br /><br />The Sky in thees looks kind of fake. I can tell you, no special tricks. It really did look like God dodged and burned. Then just a touch of sunset punched through (the the light on the one monument is from a flash.)Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-28560606504187824472015-10-11T22:29:00.001-05:002015-10-11T22:29:10.340-05:00Rhap365 Day 35: Siding Anyone?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rhapsody365">#Rhapsody365</a> Day 35. Siding anyone?<br /><br />This store is a town so small, it doesn't have a name, or a sign. But you can find it on some maps. But I don't have that map. So I just Call it Mayway. (Half way between Mayflower and Conway, Arkansas)<br /><br />I hope not to overdo it, but I am now a few days into my dallies with HDR. So expect to see lots of static things, with rich tonal range.<br /><br />So, would you buy siding from thee folks, or leave an invoice?Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-89099634706608723452015-10-11T06:58:00.002-05:002015-10-11T06:58:54.484-05:00Rhap365 Day 34: If these Walls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonight I went back out and visited a schoolroom in Menifee, Arkansas. The elementary students of Menifee now go to school in Conway some 6 miles to the east. Today, I think of Menifee as a place you must not drive faster than 45mph, a mile before you get there, and then no faster than 35 mph as you pass by its three churches, a community building and a police station. But I am most curious. Menifee appears to be an "island" African American community. I have no sense how it came to be such, as the surrounding communities are largely white.<br />
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#Rhapsody365 Day 32. <br /><br />What had been (some time ago) the Menifee, Arkansas elementary school.<br /><br /><br />Those of you on my named Facebook page may have already seen these, but yesterday I attempted my very first HDR's ever. I have one photo-buff friend who says I did "okay" for my first try. Indeed, I do see ways to improve all of these, but I am pretty stoked. I think I will be trying a lot more Heightened Dynamic Range photos in the future. <br /><br />___<br /><br /><br />You would think that as a guy who has been taking pictures for this long, I would have tried an HDR image before now. But nope. Mostly, because I have seen a lot of BAD HDR. But then, I have seen some really superb stuff, that looks full but not fake. Who knows, this one still feels a little overdone.<br /><br />For the unacquainted, HDR is a photo technique in which the photographer uses his or her computer to blend several images of the same thing, which were taken at different exposures. In this case I took 5 exposures of this setting, and then used Photoshop to blend the images for more detail in the shadows. What do you think?Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-43718243121099609122015-10-07T17:24:00.004-05:002015-10-07T17:24:30.802-05:00Rhap365 Day 31: Fire in the Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rhapsody365?source=feed_text&story_id=10153156005237997">#Rhapsody365</a> Day 31<br /><br /><br />Well, there goes the neighborhood. I have missed several days in a row of my 365, not because of a lack of images... but because of too many. I have been running hither and yawn (is that really the phrase) taking pictures of events and such. Just no time to post. So here is a quick volley from this morning's dalley with an eternal flame, combined with playing with levels in PhotoShop. What shapes do you see?<br /><br />Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-20828580002061872412015-09-29T20:11:00.002-05:002015-09-29T20:11:32.661-05:00Rhap365 day 29: Corrupt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />#Rhapsody 365 Day 29<br /><br />Part of the pressure of a 365 is to see, or create something daily. Sometimes so much happens in a day that I am tempted to spread my harvest out over several days. Then there are those days where I stumble on not much of anything. I suspect decaying sycamore leaves (these still on the branch) are an acquired taste. But I like'm.<br /><br />I will enjoy God, while the world falls apart, slowly on the vine.Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-62570967741047237082015-09-28T21:28:00.002-05:002015-09-28T21:28:36.031-05:00Rhap365 Day 28: Anomaly/Riddle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rhapsody365">#Rhapsody365</a>, Day 28: Anomaly.<br /><br />Today's offering is something of a riddle for the three people who who look at this page.<br /><br />Have you ever seen such an event in the heavens? Can you explain it?<br /><br />(Ps. This is a single exposure, No trickery.)Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-22837911439395665652015-09-27T22:01:00.002-05:002015-09-27T22:01:41.631-05:00Rhap365 Day 27: Darn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-71539527829833475462015-09-26T21:55:00.000-05:002015-09-27T21:56:06.455-05:00Rhap365 Day 26: Big Mart Bunt, one of my favorite poems.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rhapsody365?source=feed_text&story_id=10153140203412997">#Rhapsody365</a> Day 26.<br /><br /><br />Today, is something of a bunt. Car in the shop. Cleaning house. No photos. So I am sharing one of my very favorite poems from yesteryear. I really think it is worthy of a read.<br /><br /><br /><br />“BIG MART” 5/27/02<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day;<br />(Whether in my mind or out of it I can not tell.)<br /><br />And I heard behind me, a voice<br />like the sound of many waters<br />rippin’ through<br />a tin kazoo …<br /><br />“WaWa Wa Wa Wawa Woo”<br /><br />And I saw before my eyesa big and outstanding marvel:<br />Where once stood a forest<br />stood<br />a monolithic brick:<br /><br />A city in a single form and dressedin tincture of elephant and sky with garnish of red,<br />rising from a plain<br />of crushed obsidian.<br /><br />And there before the mammoth wall,a wetless sea, with tailess whales<br />circling the plain and searching for a place to rest.<br /><br />Everywhere the oxidizing basketsbasking in between the whales.<br />Everywhere the streaming co-eds.<br /><br />And I beheld two minimalistic-nods to art-deco:Turrets strung above the gates and sporting signage:<br />“Always, Always”<br />hovering above twin falls.<br /><br />Then, to my delightthe waters split<br />like a curtain pulled sideward,<br />and I saw, behind them a courtyard of the coarsest marble.<br /><br />So I thought: What is the meaning of this crude stone?<br /><br />Then a voice within my head replied: <br />“This is rock of select-frictionchosen to protect owners of said city against law-suits should the people slip.”<br /><br />And before I could, a voice outside my head replied:<br /><br />Welcome to the Hall of NationsWelcome to The Wood between the Worlds …<br />Welcome the Land where lives converge.<br />Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,<br />come and spend.<br /><br />And Lo (and High)<br /><br />I beheld grand and astonishing bedazzlements that no man can mention save me:<br /><br />I saw the beautiful bones of walking peasantsand the pleasant pies.<br />I saw cream of star, arranged in bars and bathing<br />Game-boys and socks, and a roof<br />like the state of Kansas -spanning from the east-wind to the west.<br />I saw visages and vectors<br />slung like blades: pictures of the smiling Associates<br />wearing wears.<br />I saw cattle-cars of goods and goods,<br />and the floor in between<br />like a gleaming grid, all wet with dried shellac.<br /><br />---<br /><br />The time is Ten O’clock on Sunday night.<br /><br />Who would have thought to shop right now?But one of every two hundred students in our big<br />college town is prancing down the isles<br />in the mating dance of eyes<br />and buying files.<br /><br />One of every 1000 families is buying milkand hose for his wife<br />and pencils for his kids.<br />And one of every me<br />can hardly take another ounce of pleasure.<br /><br />--<br /><br />Then as I skipped(reeling as I do, in the I-AM of being)<br />One, like a son of Sam said:<br />Come, follow me and I will show you what ye seek.<br />Behold, the splints of<br />aromatic cedar<br />griping graphite from Ceylon<br />and mixed with Mississippi clay …<br />and sprayed in school-bus golden.<br /><br />And I lookedat himas if he were an imbecile… to which he then replied:<br />“Have you ever read ‘I, Pencil’<br />you should.”<br /><br />--<br /><br />Then were my eyes were opened tothe mystery of commerce<br />and the many antecedents<br />swirling on, or about my feet.<br /><br />Here, the shining vinylmade of peat bog and wax, and the man who feeds his<br />face by making it to gleam.<br /><br />Here, the waiting bubbles like a secret code, hidin syrup from Nebraska, caged in a can from Alcoa.<br /><br />Here, the tropic sun and siltwith caffeine kick, minted in Honduras.<br />Here the unseen trucks that course by night<br />to dump the living lobster<br />and the intricate outbursts<br />of the Japanese mind.<br /><br />Here the masses from Malaysia,China and Taiwan, bent across the polyester oil-fields<br />and cotton gins,<br />sowing seams<br />and clothing me in reams of labor<br />for an hour of my own.<br /><br />Here the ground-up pigs on plates of foam,and German brains, applied<br />to the beautiful gears.<br />Here the pulling on the teats of cows,<br />the purposed rot of milk, ...the graceful eggs.<br /><br />Here, the chosen fontsand art campaigns, athletes leaping from the boxes<br />to sell another flake.<br /><br />Here (real time): The sons of Adam and the chicks of Eve,weaving in and out of ears. Goateed men, pretending to like shopping<br />and the dames, with their gametes tucked inside, ready to<br />deliver new consumers.<br /><br />Then did I behold (waiting with me in the chutes)a multitude of kids, from every nation, tribe, and tongue:<br />Our baskets brimming in cilantro and the stuff<br />of every nation, tribe, and tongue;<br />Our lungs, twined in the air;<br />and I cried (with delight)<br /><br />“Could this really be the Arkansasthat opposed integration?”<br />---<br /><br />It stands in my mindlike a growing constant: things that are, are fed by many branches,<br />which in turn are fed by branches which in turn are fed by branches till<br />the only explanation for what is,<br />must never start with nothing<br /><br />but with all.<br /><br />Consider the power of the HAND,and the infinite wisdom of the ONE<br />capable of chasing,<br />and igniting all loose ends,<br />then reduce and back away<br /><br />'til….<br /><br />Wal-Mart rises, not from any so called “bang”<br />but from The Big Condense.Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-65845422747062835882015-09-25T22:50:00.003-05:002015-09-25T22:50:55.293-05:00Rhap365 Day 25: Who's Your Daddy?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Who's your Daddy?<br />Rhapsody365 Day 25<br /><br />This is the only photo I took in the last 24 hours that really intrigued me. This guy was about the side of a half grapefruit. But don't worry. Daddy Long Legs don't qualify as spiders.<br />Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-75369707293457929932015-09-25T22:47:00.002-05:002015-09-25T22:47:49.888-05:00Rhap365: Wet Ink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Hot off the press, Before the Ink dried...<br /><br />Rhapsody365 Day 24<br /><br />And then He placed his hand accidentally on the newly painted crepes, smearing them across the sky. (Except God does not make accidents. Or something like that.<br /><br /><br />-<br /><br />A friend of mine from Conway AR, took a picture at roughly the same time, several miles away. He framed this same cloud formation as a backdrop for a football game. I will see if I can get his image. Wierd compare.Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-70282364398882827802015-09-23T16:40:00.003-05:002015-09-23T16:40:28.472-05:00Rhap365 Day 23: clockwise or counter?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />#Rhapsody365 Day 17, Creepers<br /><br />Okay, so this image is not very Rhapsidorious. But it is kind of cool, and dark and creepy, and filled with a homage to miracle. Anyone else out there blown away by spiders and their webs?<br /><br /><br />I found this web outside my house. I could not see the web, but I could see the little ball of spider, just floating in space. I turns out that the spider fastened his (or her) web to a tree above, and the ground below, then build the web in between two vertical strands. It would have been pretty much impossible to anchor the web horizontally.<br /><br /><br />As for the photo. I have found that I can light a web if I hit is with hard light from the side. It does not work nearly so well direct. I took some pictures without the me, then stood behind the web and gave it a full load of manual flash. I am blown out, but the web is just about right. It takes that much light to make them visible in the dry daylight.<br /><br /><br />I hope to have more. There is a reason that Holloween features spiders. This is their grand showtime.</div>
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<br /><br />Odd other thought. Today I thought about how each little spider is a repository of specific genetic information - little bundle of carefully choreographed parts and DNA, and that little bundle must somehow be kept alive, in some form through winter, through drought, thru rain and flood. Beyond that, I don't think spiders spin webs year around. So this elaborate trap must somehow bring in enough hall to keep that little bundle of DNA, active - till it replicates and spins out new little bundles of spider DNA. Or something like that. <br />Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-74790103176049426462015-09-16T08:51:00.006-05:002015-09-16T08:52:29.949-05:00Rhaps365 Day 16: Those Infernal Bars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I will enjoy God, as empires crumble.<br /><br /><br />All images Slocum Cemetery, Cross County, ARkansas. Images September 3, 2015Kirk Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478002114374876536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204253019094206903.post-50024247440859890052015-09-13T21:46:00.001-05:002015-09-13T21:46:06.357-05:00Rhap365: Day 13: Filled<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />#Rhapsody365 Day 13: Filled<br /><br />Image 9/12/2015 Harrison, ARkansas Balloon Festival.<br /><br />--<br /><br /><br />The other day I mentioned that before I started Rhapsody365, I had considered making it EnjoyingGod365. Now it looks like I may be making it a strong inner theme.<br /><br />What does it mean to enjoy God?<br /><br />The phrase itself is not my own. It has a rich tradition in Christian thought, and is pulled most directly from this maxim, found in the Westminster Greater Catechism. (a document with which I have some profound differences, but not here.) It reads.<br /><br />What is the Chief end of Man?<br /><br /><i>The Chief end of Man is to know God, and enjoy him forever.</i><br /><br />The fact that that idea was penned by Christ followers of the Puritan hue may surprise some. (Some have characterized the Puritans as pleasure-hating sexually repressed prudes…but a survey of several of their spokesmen, Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet shows that we have mightily mischaracterized the Puritans.)<br /><br />So What does it mean to Enjoy God?<br /><br />It means we find our deepest pleasure while dwelling in his presence and savoring his gifts, including the life he has given us.<br /><br />I see the enjoyment of God realized in these three, possibly four major ways.<br /><br />1) We enjoy God because of who He is. (We are enamored of His being.)<div>
<br />2) We enjoy God because He has made the world and everything in it. </div>
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<br />3) We enjoy God because of the love he has lavished on us…(We enjoy him for what he does for us in our inner person.</div>
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<br />4) We enjoy God because He dwells in us, and fills us with genuine joy.<br /><br />(There is a caveat to what I am saying -- for discussion later on, namely… that Enjoyment of God is prefaced by knowing that God is, and by being in communion him, apart from which our enjoyment of his being is greatly limited.)<br /><br />--<br /><br />One of the reason I questioned whether I should do an “Enjoying God 365, is that I wondered if I could really flesh out all of these ideas, driven by photography. At least three of these chategories are so outside the world of the visible, that I thought I might give a lopsided presentation of “Enjoying God.” By focusing on the world (and the joys to be found in it) we give only a partial sense of what it means to enjoy God.<br /><br />So, while my images and art will necessarily give greater weight to point 2, I hope to address all the forms of enjoying God over these next months.<br /><br />2-B continued.</div>
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