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Steven Tryon
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Gallery

2013-147 Letchworth impressions

Daily Deviations and Partners Choice Awards

12 deviations
Kilroy and friends - Feb 2011

--By camera

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2018-251 Classic Letchworth

--Places

3137 deviations
Literature

2023-196 Why am I still a Christian?

[I wrote this essay for our church newsletter. It is an essay that has been percolating for a long time.] Why am I still a Christian? It’s a fair question these days. Folks who identify as Christians have been loud hateful noises of late and aligning themselves on the side of the oppressor rather than the oppressed. Even my home church has declared that I am no longer quite orthodox enough, me being an LGBTQ+ supporter and all. I cannot remember a time when I was not a member of a Christian Reformed Church somewhere. When the church that has nurtured me all my life no longer has a place for me and my friends, it calls everything into question. So, why am I still a Christian? The short answer is that the Bible refuses to let me go. When I was in Army flight school fifty years ago, I hooked up with the Navigators, a very fine organization whose mantra is, “To know Christ and make him known.” They challenged me to read the Bible all the way through each year. I have been doing so ever

Writing

136 deviations
2021-274 Pictober day one - foot

One each day and other such challenges

824 deviations
2012-126 As evening falls

--Events

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2024-074 Down by the river

Waterscapes

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2024-081 Last look with the Argus 50mm

Landscapes and Trees

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2024-064 Setting up for summertime worship

People

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2024-005 Then this happened

Family

601 deviations
2024-080 Color me blood red

Around our House

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Literature

2014-052 Balm for the soul

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Happiness is a warm puppy. Aww. Yes, there is much sadness in this broken world. Thankfully, the sadness is not the whole story. Despite all our efforts to destroy each other and our environment there remains, by the grace of God, a wealth of beauty and goodness, and even delight. You pause for a moment while shoveling the snow and catch the sun glinting through the snow that still hangs in the air. You stand by the pond in the wood with the fog dripping silence. The sun finds a hole in the overcast and the Autumn forest comes to life. A single p

Around work

776 deviations
2024-066 Between earth and sky

The Sky's the Limit

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2024-028 Light is ever in tension with darkness

Railroads

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2024-066 Between earth and sky

Around Rochester

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2024-065 The trees will clap their hands

Irondequoit Church of Christ

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2023-266 Memories

Rochester Christian Reformed Church

575 deviations
2022-348 Hamming for the camera, with owl

Birds

97 deviations
2022-131 Peaceable kingdom

Cats and Dogs

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2010-351 Shirlee's vase - Nov 2010

Critters and Flowers

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2020-295 Mount Morris Dam at Letchworth State Park

Bridges and dams

320 deviations
2024-077 A prayer for justice and peace

Whimseys and Still Life

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2024-065 2005-01-25 Pearwood and the archivist

Photos of Me

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2016-172 Opening night at Image City Photo Gallery

Image City Photo Gallery

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2018-178 Humphrey the hump-free alpaca

Adirondack Mountain Club

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