#HookedOnSquares

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At the risk of sounding utterly uncool, I must say that I love squares! In fact, maybe it’s challenges I love. As a teacher of visual communication, I know well that the inherited wisdom about square shapes is that they are static, stodgy, etc. ‘Use squares when you want to convey stability and conformity,’ the textbooks say. Well, phooey, I say! So about two years ago I began my #HookedOnSquares project. If you google that hashtag, it should pull up a number of photographs I have shared online. Better yet, click on this link, which will take you to the…

Puzzle Passion

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My Facebook friends know well: I love puzzles! And it occurred to me that others might enjoy puzzles made with my images, perhaps as much as I enjoy making them. In fact, I started making them online long before I decided to have some actually manufactured to sell. “Red Buckeye” (above) was available online for about a year. It was put together by folks online a thousand times in the first few days, and by the time I took it down recently, it had been put together by more than 2,000 people. Pretty cool! These are Limited Edition puzzles. No…

The Journey Begins

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Thanks for joining me! This blog will be about my encounters with Creation–natural and humanmade–with a camera. Hope you’ll come along. You can subscribe in the column to the right, and I promise, I won’t post so often you’ll wish you hadn’t! Matter is, and has always been, the hiding place for Spirit, forever offering itself to be discovered anew. — Richard Rohr