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Channel: Reflections on Life – Marian Kraus – Chicago Commercial, Architectural and Fine Art Photographer
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April 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

April is a month of openings, the openings of flowers in the ground and buds on trees. All of nature awakens and begins to bloom again. And so it is hopefully also with us. With that in mind the quote...

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Contact with Water

Water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is vital for all known forms of life. The cells in our bodies consist of 65 – 90% water. We cannot survive without it. So let’s look at some of the...

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Flashes of Hope Photography in support of Pediatric Cancer Cure

It so happened that the day I was photographing my second assignment for Flashes of Hope, across the Atlantic my “little” sister checked into the hospital to undergo her 2nd cancer related surgery the...

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May 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

May, the month of change, at least for my family and me, big time. My younger sister, who lives with her family in Germany, has been battling her second bout with cancer since January of this year,...

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June 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

June, marking the midpoint of the year. A reminder that new beginnings potentially can have their start anywhere, not just at the beginning or the end…where or whatever that may be. As I contemplated...

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July 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

Loosing your car key at Devils Lake clearly calls for “surrendering and relaxing into the mystery…”. While returning from a commercial architectural photography assignment of photographing the...

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November 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

Life…what a gift we were all given to be able to experience and participate in all the marvelous and tremendously multifaceted miracles that manifest daily on this planet of ours. A gift that truly...

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December 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

According to the Mayan tradition, as well as prophecies from other belief systems and civilizations, we are approaching a very historical event at the end of 2012. In a very simplified way, for the...

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Free desktop wallpaper calendar for January and February 2013

Four days into the new year, I went for my usual early morning walk. It was a refreshing 15 degrees at 7:15 a.m. While approaching Fox River, I looked up in a tree by the water to see 3 big birds...

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Free desktop wallpaper calendar for March and April 2013

The bridge symbolizes transition and connection, and also neutral ground. Bridge is structure and pathway, a linking of opposing sides of a landscape often separated by a void. The latter may take...

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Symbolism and ancient wisdom in stones

The symbolism of stones…one can’t help but conjure images of the steadfast, the eternal, and the permanent while considering these powerful, but familiar words. Rock and Stone. Place the words rock...

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Peace starts at home, in your mind

Whether you are an artist, photographer, corporate executive, housewife, yoga teacher, athlete, therapist, writer, politician or barista…how do you begin each day, what is your meditation for the day…?...

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We can end homelessness in DuPage County

For the past 26 years DuPage PADS has been providing hope for men, women and children who are homeless. Moving beyond providing shelter and meals, the not-for-profit agency has evolved to providing an...

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How to end homelessness

A while back, the executive director of DuPage PADS, Ms. Carol Simler and I talked about the possibilities of creating documentary photography based visual tools that would help spreading the message...

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Contact with Water

Water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is vital for all known forms of life. The cells in our bodies consist of 65 – 90% water. We cannot survive without it. So let’s look at some of the...

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Flashes of Hope Photography in support of Pediatric Cancer Cure

It so happened that the day I was photographing my second assignment for Flashes of Hope, across the Atlantic my “little” sister checked into the hospital to undergo her 2nd cancer related surgery the...

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July 2012 free desktop wallpaper calendar

Loosing your car key at Devils Lake clearly calls for “surrendering and relaxing into the mystery…”. While returning from a commercial architectural photography assignment of photographing the...

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Quantum Leap Thinking

Photography is an immediate and intimate reflection of the photographer’s ability and degree of being present. Most outstanding photographs are created when the photographer is fully aware and attuned...

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Contact with Water

Water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is vital for all known forms of life. The cells in our bodies consist of 65 – 90% water. We cannot survive without it. So let’s look at some of the...

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Skydiving is it Calculable Risk or Luck

For the longest time a jump out of an airplane has been on my bucket list. In 2010, just in time for my big “0” birthday it did not work out because “prevailing adverse circumstances” somewhat...

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