Thy word is a lamp unto my path and a light
unto my feet...Psalm 119: 105

"It takes several years to train the brain to absorb and store information important
 enough to remember.  But one can retain information best by paying attention to detail."

Later I felt inspired to compose poetry and combine it with my photography to express
variety with new meaning to my site ....The theme of my pages as of recent years has been
centering around nature....which I feel most comfortable with now in this stage of my life. 
The joys of photographing beautiful birds and flowers are such a good source of material 
that the "well rarely runs dry." My husband also is a nature lover and if I am not able to
 identify a bird  or a type of flower that is familiar to me, he usually has the answer.

This is my third website location since 1999.  Server hosts have either gone down 
or changed hands through the years and I had to start over with a different slate. 
February 01st, 2004 was the date that my Archives Index  page would see the light
beyond the tunnel, with selected categories of my favorite poetry and photography,
now dating back from 1999 to 2005.  My newer listings are posted at What's New.
 

After taking a home study correspondence course from NYI of Photography in September
of 1994, (when I turned 51 years old)  I later received my certifcate of graduation in 1996.
Primarily, I took  the course as a hobby to improve the quality of my pictures, and not as a 
pre-requisite to a career. It taught creative camera techniques  but more importantly, their 
lessons of life  trained my  eyes in conjunction with  my mind  to look beyond the glass. 

Andrea's Looking Glass
Writes poetry with pictures,
Perceived through  my eyes~
Received by' the scriptures.
 Life  beyond a camera's  flash,
 From earth to paradise....

Webmaster & author
of Andrea's Looking Glass
© Andrea Jeanne Petersen

Here is the URL on the JPG Magazine site to see what I have up so far: You are allowed
one vote per entries.  Thank you! 

http://www.jpgmag.com/people/andreajeanne64

NEW CHANGES IN THE GUESTBOOK

PLEASE READ!  THANK YOU!
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New Codes for my  guestbook are linked now to my sign and view buttons below.
I am very sorry that I was not aware that the code had been changed, and I am
not sure exactly when this came about.  Please refer back here to my Index page
when you wish to  sign and view my guestbook  because the previous sign and view
 buttons on my other pages up to May 19th, 2007, have not been updated except for
 What's New and my Archives page.

I am not a trained graphic artist, but have self-taught myself through trial and
error from the "school of hard knocks" to design my own backgrounds from my
 photography...There are many graphic sites on the net who do offer beautiful
  graphics and backgrounds to the public for personal and commercial sites. 

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"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but
one receiveth the prize?  so run, that ye may obtain."
I Corinthians 9: 24