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Getting To the Photographer’s Prize
Getting To the Photographer’s Prizeby Michael DoyleIf you don’t want to be left in the lurchIt is always best to start with researchTrying to find the photo with something to sayCannot best be left to an improvised dayThere is not … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abdundantly, Access, All of the Best, Best, Best Direction, Best Ways, Blessing, Ca;pture, Capacity, Clear, Dazzle, Deer In the Headlights, Details, Dream, Email, Embrace, Equal, Eyes, Face, Find, Focus, Forget, Function of Time, Gam, Getting To the Great, Guest, Homework, Improvised, Intimation, Intrigue, Keys, Left, Lurch, Magic, Making Connection, Mental Aggravation, Might Known, Nonverbal Communication, Observer, Others, Photo, Photographer, Phototgraph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Possess, Presentation, Prize, Proverbial Smile, Research, Right Opportunity, Say, Secret, Share, Shoot, Shooting Beyond the Obvious, Show, Simple, Start, Sublime, Surprise, Unique, Visually Loaded, Web, What Isn't There, What To Say, Worthy, You Should Have Been Here Yesterday, Your Best
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A Vacation In the Reflective
A Vacation In the Reflectiveby Michael DoyleIt seems to me that there’s one thingCovid has brought and its the thrivingThat comes in knowing it’s not really destinationGiving us the best of our family vacationIt does not hurt in thinking locationBut, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ambience, Architecture, Beauty, Billion, Blown Ego, Candid, Catch the Light, Collect, Contrast, Covid, Creative, Curves, Dawn, Day, Death's Embrace, Destination, Difference, Differently, Dignity, Dingy, Draw, Early To rise, Edges, Eloquent, Exact, Familiar, Family, Family Vacation, Feel, Floor, Focus, Found, Grey, Handholding, Highest Degree, Hurt, Images, Inside, Intimacy, Intricate, Just Right, Know, Lattice, Life, Linger, Location, Lunacy, Making the Best, Marble, Measuring Ages, Moments, Mt. Rushmore, New Angle, Opportunity, Perspective, Photo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Real, Reflect, Remind, Restrict, Reverence, Said, Seems, Share, Situation, Sky, Snapshot, Spin, Standard Image, Statue of Liberty, Stiff As A Board, Surprise, Texture, Thoughtful Expression, Thrive, Too Big, Top Down View, Trip of the Shutter, Twilight, Vacation, Visual, Whole Other World, World, Wounded Pride
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First Principles: In A Single Sentence of Self-Evident Truth, the Founding Fathers Put…the Broad Basis of Man’s Relationship To God, Government and To Mankind
“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man’s relationship to God, to government, and to … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged All-Time Masterpiece, Broad Basis, Clarence Manion, Declaration of Independence, Easily Understandable, First Principles, Focus, Founding Fathers, God, Government, Ideological Simplification, Man's Relationship, Mankind, Self-Evident Truth, Single Sentence
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All That Mistaken Jazz
In this day and age, there is so little convention of civility that is kept and each indiscretion perhaps leads further to those things that act in concert to break down society. All That Mistaken Jazz by Michael Doyle Conversations … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All, Alone, Animal Magnetism, Avoidance, Broken, Civility, Convention, Conversation, Desperate, Dignity, Dreams, Felt Deeply, Fit, Focus, Heart of Stone, Hesitation, Hidden, Host, Importance, Indiscretion, Jazz, Life, Live, Losses, Mistake, Most, Past, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Pragmatism, Price Paid, Privacy, Question, Quit, Random Chance, Sad, Sake, Seldom, Shattered, Society, Space, Spoken, Treasure, Trite, Voice, Want, Whimper, Winners, Words
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Soldiers From the Heart
Based in part on Matthew 5:6: Soldiers From the Heart by Michael Doyle Blessed are those who hunger and thirst For the righteousness of God foremost and first For all of these shall be fully satisfied Because in the countersign … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abstain, Battle, Biblically True, Blessed, Book of Matthew, Cross, Discern, Discipline, False Doctrine, Fight the Good Fight, Focus, Footsteps, Forgive, Gentle, God, Godliness, Heart, Hunger and Thirst, Knees, Know, Love, Maturity, Pastor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Righteousness, Satisfied, Sight, Sin, Soldier, Spiritual Battle, Standard, Timid, Timothy
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Framing the Lines
Photographic composition often has the challenge of how to turn the two dimensional into something that has depth and seems a bit three dimensional. Framing the Lines by Michael Doyle Doorways, windows and rock formations Layer our photos with their … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 2d, 3d, Catalysts, Chaos, Composition, Connection, Containment, Control, Craft, Depth, Detection, Dimension, Doors, Doorways, Draw, Elements, Entertain, Eye, Eyes, Find, Focal, Focus, Forgot, Frame, Guide, Holy Grail, Information, Interest, Involve, Journey, Key, Layer, Leading Lines, Light, Lines, Lot, Multiple, Open, Photograph, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Right, Road, Rock Formations, Soul, Story, Tales, Tools, Truth, Unfold, Windows, Windows of the Soul, World, Zest
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On Perspective and Horizon
A second look at photographic composition: On Perspective and Horizon by Michael Doyle A good clean background Focuses the attention When aptly found These photos are worthy of retention Layered photographs have their place But cleaner is best to embrace … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Add, Angles, Attention, Background, Beginner, Big Deal, Block, Build, Camera, Capture, Change, Clean, Complete, Composition, Cooking, Detail, Distraction, Drama, Embrace, Focus, Fog, Forward, Found, Glory, High, Horizon, Horizon Line, Human Being, Kick, Know, Layered Phototgraphs, Looking, Low, Matter, Mountain, Overdone, Perspective, Photographs, Photos, Picture, Place, Poem, Poetry, Popping Out, Read, Retention, Satisfaction, Seen, Shatter, Sing, Smoke, Story, Subject, Sun, Toward, Trick
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A Godly Mother
Based in part on 2 Timothy 1:1-7 and, of course, thoughts on Mother’s Day: A Godly Mother by Michael Doyle Without any sense of shy timidity God speaks through Second Timothy That which we’d do well to recognize Every mother … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Best, Best Intention, Blessed, Brothers, Build Up, Capable, Care, Center, Children, Companions, Compassion, Conduct, Conflict, Consequence, Conversation, Coordination, Darkness, Deceive, Dependency, Destruction, Devil, Discipline, Discouragement, Doing, Doing Well, Done, Encouragement, Eyes, Faith, Family, Fashion, Fill, Focus, Footsteps of Christ, Forgive, Freedom, Generosity, Generous, Gift, Give, God, Godly, Good, Hands, Harmony, Hesitation, His Word, Hour, Humanity, Imperfect, Inevitable, Instruction, Joy, Key, Live, Love, Man, Matters, Mother, Mother's Day, Needs, Obedience, Order, Organization, Outpouring, Outward, Path, Peace, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precious, Profitable, Providence, Quality, Receive, Recognize, Remind, Resiliency, Resistance, Rest, Right Intention, Righteous Path, Schedule, Second Timothy, Self, Sense, Serve, Show, Sisters, Son, Stress, Study, Teach, Tension, Test, Timidity, Timothy, Town Down, True, Trust, Unconditional, Understand, Undone, Words, Worry
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