Reflections

Fairy Tales by Kirsten Bruening - Close-up Photography, Award Winning Photography, Photo of the Day, Kirsten Bruening, Art Photography

The Architecture of Wonder

Why do we insist that the world must be measured in inches and hours, when we know in our marrow that the most vital truths are found in the margins of the impossible? As children, we understood that a shadow could be a doorway and a flicker…
Waiting in Hope by Jose Juniel Rivera-Negron - Photojournalism, Portrait Photography, Photography Awards, Photo of the Day, Light & Composition University

The Quiet Architecture of Expectation

We often mistake stillness for an absence of movement, as if the world only holds meaning when we are busy shaping it. But there is a profound, patient labor in simply waiting. It is a posture of the soul, a way of holding one’s own heart…
Out in a Break by Jose Juniel Rivera-Negron - Photojournalism, Photography Awards, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, Art Photography

The Quiet Between Heartbeats

I once sat on a bench in a crowded train station in London, watching a man in a grey coat lean against a pillar. He wasn’t waiting for a train; he was simply existing in the eye of the storm. Around him, the world was a frantic blur of commuters,…