A Book Review and Giveaway! *Winner Robin H. –Congratulations! “Lord, I’m looking for something good.” This was my short prayer offered up a few weeks ago. When I came home late that afternoon a little package of something good was there, just like that, waiting on the doorstep. In it was Lynn Cowell’s book Brave Beauty: Finding the Fearless You In recent weeks, our [...]
Weekend Wonder I'm often driving somewhere when I look up at the sky and wish I had my camera in hand. This usually happens when driving the kids to school in the morning. How many times I've said, "Oh! Look at that sky! Don't you wish we could keep heading east and watch this sunrise from the beach?" My kids [...]
I recently had an assignment to photograph twenty one women. Spending time preparing the images for the client filled my heart with joy. I saw these women on my screen and saw beauty in each of their faces. But I heard something familiar when I photographed the women, "I hate how I look, I never look good in photographs, I hate [...]
I read someone's post on Instagram which stated the biggest cliché in photography are sunrise and sunset photos. As a photographer I wondered about this statement. I thought about all the photographs that have ever been taken. Photographs taken by masters of photography, like those of Ansel Adam's photographs of the American wilderness or Clyde Butcher's photographs capturing the beauty of the Florida Everglades. I thought about all [...]
"Mommy, look! It fits me!" As my little girl's hand sprang up at me the ring on her finger came flying off, hit the tile floor, and cracked the pretty pink stone on top. I knew it was an accident, but I was still upset. I couldn't believe I had only gotten to wear the ring one time. It [...]
