{"id":1855,"date":"2011-01-09T05:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T10:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/09\/192011-if-dancing-water-froze\/"},"modified":"2011-01-09T05:45:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T10:45:24","slug":"192011-if-dancing-water-froze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"1\/9\/2011: If dancing water froze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/Landscape-Wildlife\/Around-Home-CanonSX20IS-22010\/11297974_hN4oB#1142725244_otKNa-A-LB\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/Landscape-Wildlife\/Around-Home-CanonSX20IS-22010\/IMG5565\/1142725244_otKNa-L-2.jpg?resize=650%2C490\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose there is no real surprise here\u2026other than the fact that it is possible. This is what even the most rapidly flowing, swirling, jumping water coming down a little series of falls in Maine looks like when it freezes. It captures the motion in solid form. It turns the music of the rapids into intricate folds and fingers of ice. How? I will admit, I can not quite imagine it. <\/p>\n<p>But then I don\u2019t really need an explanation. It is enough to find it there on my walk\u2026to see it for what it is\u2026and to bring it home to share with you\u2026to bear witness.<\/p>\n<p>It is an instance of truth that must be seen to be believed, and that, once seen, is sufficient to itself.<\/p>\n<p>It is Sunday, and you might be ahead of me with where this image is leading me. Because, of course, what I see and appreciate in this image shares an identity with what I see and most appreciate in the spirit. The essence of faith is that it is possible even when we can\u2019t imagine how\u2026but it is also truth apprehended, seen, touched, felt, experienced\u2026that is sufficient to itself, beyond the need for explanations. Like dancing water frozen and yet in still in motion, truth is something we must experience, and that we can only bear witness to. With no spiritual camera to bring back the evidence to share, I have no choice but to become the dancing water, to let the frozen motion form within me, to let truth perceived shape my life into a living witness. <\/p>\n<p>In that sense, what matters here is the taking of the image, and its sharing, not so much the image itself. <\/p>\n<p>Canon SX20IS at 560mm equivalent, f5.7 @ 1\/200th @ ISO 200. Snow Mode.<\/p>\n<p>Processed for clarity and intensity in Lightroom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1855\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1855&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1855\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1855&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1855&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Sunday! 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