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Seeing the Beauty that’s within
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” Eleanor Roosevelt Can you point out unconditional love to me? Will you hold up some grace? Dig some hope out of your bottom drawer? These are absurd questions, of course. Hope, love, grace are […]
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Prairie Flowers in the Summertime
I’m going to be candid with you- these photos were taken at the wrong time, in the wrong light, because of an impending storm. I had to hike through snake infested grass ( I almost stepped on large snake of indeterminate origin, and did step on a baby snake.) My model was hot, complaining and […]
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Summer Remnants
What mementos of Summer will you carry with you into the fall? The tangible and the intangible. Will you keep the rocks you collected from that hike, the ticket from the concert you didn’t know would happen? Will you remember the peach fuzz beginning to form on his cheek, the popsicle grin on her mouth? […]
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Pop Culture god versus the God of the Bible
Attributes of God are His character qualities. This is how Christians discuss Gods personality, if you will. Many attributes in Christian theology what God is not, or what He does not do, as a means to knowing and understanding Him. For example, God does not lie, God does not change, … I write this with […]
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Evidence of A God Who Cares for You Personally
If you want to get to know someone , what do you do? You spend time with them. You listen to them, to what they see, watch what they do. You Laurent to what others say about them. God is Spirit, Invisible. However, He left us clues about His nature and his personality. Clues in […]
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Young Love is a Grand Thing
I was honored to be able to take photos of my brother Jesse and his girlfriend, Evelyn. They are such an adorable couple, and their genuine love and friendship is palpable. We planned to do a Sunset Session, however the clouds that showed up had other plans. Overall, even though it wasn’t the exact setting […]
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When Peace like a River
One of my all time Favorite hymns begins with the line , “ When Peace like a river attendith my way, when sorrow like sea billows roll. Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.” It’s a lovely hymn, made more meaningful by the fact […]
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Adventures in the Middle of a Worldwide Pandemic
I find that most people are a strange mix of consistency and whim, of routine and variety, of predictably and chaos. We often establish our schedules and routines… and then we tire of them. Our habits work beautifully, until they bore us. We carry our routines out predictably until one day, we wake up and […]
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Document your days
With the advent of social media, we are no longer strangers to taking photos that once might have been considered strange. You have witnessed someone standing on their chair in a restaurant, right? Social media influencers have certainly changed the pictorial status quo. And while some of it is admittedly ridiculous, some of it is […]