Stereo Card Recolor--Rock of Ages Statue (c1870)

 

Here's another recolored stereoview. I don't have a physical copy of this one in my own collection, but I found a good scan of it on the Getty Museum website. The name associated with it on the museum website is the photographer James Cremer. It was originally in creamy black and white, like most of these old cards, but I thought it would be fun to add a touch of color. Anyway, this card has a similar theme to some I've blogged about previously, here and here, Faith personified and clinging to the cross. But instead of a painting or a girl in a costume, this is a stereo photo of a small statue. There seem to be a lot of statue stereoviews floating around eBay, and I've seen a few similar to this, but none at a price I wanted to pay. When recoloring I chose to remove the yellow shade from the statue itself and make the velvet background a deep red. I'm fascinated by how many different versions I've found of the same theme--there are a few more I haven't blogged about yet but might in the future.

Parabolic Orbits

 

So, I'm a bit on the late side posting this, but it's a pretty big deal and I'm posting about it now. I've had a short story published in an anthology for the first time! And it's a science fiction story. Parabolic Orbits is a collection of stories based on the parables Jesus told, rewritten as science fiction. My friend Sarah L. Frantz has a story in A Time for Everything, a previous anthology by Ben Avery, and when she mentioned that this new collection was in the works she suggested that I pitch a story idea for it, too. It looked like a lot of fun, so I did. I was so excited to be accepted! And since Sarah and I each have a story in the same book, I had to post a picture of us both with a copy of it.

My story is called "The Stars from Home" and is based on the parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge. Sarah's story, "The Nebra Sky Disc," is based on the parable of the lost coin. And there are twelve more people's stories in there, too. I had a lot of fun reading them all and definitely recommend the book to anyone who might like Christian speculative fiction or science fiction in general. You can find it on Amazon here, in both ebook and paperback formats. 

Parabolic Orbits actually came out in November, so why didn't I blog about it until February? Well, I'll add a picture of my main reason for the delay, which I consider a very good one. I had a baby in January, which of course was a huge distraction. I've been pretty busy with that, first getting ready for and then taking care of him. He's not super impressed by books yet, but I'm sure he'll be a lot more interested once he is old enough to hold his head up and stay awake a bit longer.