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This is my most recent Word Picture. There's so much more than one story behind this, but I'm not inclined / able to iterate then.
What I will point out is:
The Text: I took Young's Literal Translation and updated it, consulting the original languages, English translations, Luther's German, and my polyglot wife. I went with Young's this time because it tracked better with the original than the King James, while at the same time being more culturally relevant.
The flower: Is called a snowdrop. I took hundreds of pictures of them in our yard over the course of three days. To read more about them, click
here. I have many more beautiful photos of them from this shoot... I hope I can get around to uploading them some day...
Background: Usually when I take pictures its for the purest of artistic reasons- I behold something beautiful and poignant and wish to capture and present it. This photo / project is the exception to the rule. There was a particular precipitating event behind the creation of this image, and I went outside looking for something to best go with the text and speak to the particular situation. I have hundreds, perhaps thousands of other pictures which would have worked with the text adequately, but none so powerfully and poignantly.
Of course I eschew photographic cliches- even were there lilies up, I'd not have taken a picture of them. The snowdrop uniquely served my purposes because this tiny little flower is the first to emerge after winter around here (in the U.S. Midwest.) This year's winter was especially intense and brutal.
Photo details: You can get a lot of the details by clicking on the image. I did not do any retouching of this photo- it didn't need any. I did under-expose by two stops and use fill flash to give the color saturation & density I was after. Obviously its an extreme close-up... the real flower is about the size of a lentil or navy bean.
License Details: I chose the non-derivatives license because I do not wish nor do I sanction editing of the picture itself. On the other hand, I wholeheartedly endorse and encourage its use in bulletins, care cards, any other non-profit or personal use.
