If stills could tell a story

"Conveying movement in a still is the art of a true professional."

This month's Digital Camera Magazine challenge is to shoot a picture that conveys movement. And I already have one in mind. ;-)


There is something epic about the Lord's Supper, an expectancy inherent in awaiting the return of the King. The still icons of bread and wine hold in them the promise of redemption, renewal and re-creation, and the Word upon which the entire universe hangs is represented in these common elements.

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

--1 Corinthians 11:26 (NIV)


As I look through the Mersing photos, I realise that the two shots that most concisely describe the atmosphere of Teluk Iskandar Inn (where we stayed) are so-called two-dimensional stills.

The story they tell is more in the detail than the composition.



Henri Nouwen writes, in The Way of the Heart;

"Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature."

Only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds.