
When we first started looking for faces in the rocks, we were beginners. It took a while to find the faces, and they were sometimes very hard to find. This is how we found Mother Teresa.
We were hiking in the mountains just West of Denver, in an area we knew very well. I was taking pictures of the scenery and everything that looked remotely like a face in the rock. I took a lot of photos, and Judy and I had pretty good imaginations. So much so that, when we would get the film developed we would often have very few if any faces. All those photos and very few faces in the rocks. Our imaginations saw them but the camera wouldn’t take their pictures.
We got these photos back, and in one of them there was a hand, held out in front of the rock formation, that looked like it was praying. The only problem is that it was a little out of focus. Out of focus, and I only had one photo.
I would correct that error in the future. I would take ten photos of a great rockface, to be sure that I would have one usable one when they were developed. I had to do this, because we couldn’t always remember where we had been, or where the rock face was located.
We would make notes: “between the two large trees and the large rock”, but those notes were almost useless a few weeks later. There are a lot of trees and rocks, and we just couldn’t always remember where everything was.
Yes, we should have purchased a GPS locator, and kept notes, but we just weren’t ever planning that this was going to be a book. It was for fun.
So, we had to go back and find the original rock formation to take another photo that would be in focus.
This sounds easy, but to find the same rock on the side of a very large mountain was a daunting task. To make it worse, I wasn’t even sure what mountain it was. We went back and looked, and looked, and looked.
After a few hours we walked up to a rock formation by accident. Judy finallly saw Mother Teresa again, but the lighting was wrong and we had to come back on another day at around 10:00 a.m. to take the picture. This one turned out.
That was how we finally got the photo of “Mother Teresa”.
To see more images from our book click here: Faces in the Rocks… A Spiritual Journey.
randy
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