Saturday, April 30, 2011

Wedding Days







The above are all images caught at a few of the weddings I have been honored to photograph. Some are from a bridal portrait session I did also.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Photography

I used to draw and paint a little but one day I used an Old Sony Mavica digital camera (which used floppy disks as media cards) for the school I was working at (Illini Central Middle School) and I became fascinated with photography. I purchased my first digital camera (HP) 2 MP on December 24, 2001 at a Circuit City in Springfield, Illinois and that accompanied me to North Carolina when we moved in January of 2003. I have upgraded to a Kodak 6490 4MP soon after we moved to NC. I upgraded to an Olympus DSLR about 4 summers ago and it was about then I started to take photos for some friends. In 2009 I did my first wedding for a friend at work whose sister needed a photographer. I have done five weddings since then and a few more photo sessions for friends including birthdays and family gatherings. I now use a Canon EOS T2i. Here are a few of my photos.


Nick (HP) ~2002


Nick (Canon) 2011


Corri (Kodak) ~2007


Corri (Canon) 2011


Wyatt (Olympus) 2009


Wyatt (Canon) 2011

John 3:16
John 14:6

Donald!
BASEBALL!
Sugar
Nick
Corri
Wyatt

My Title

I was wondering what to name this blog and I came up with the title of an old song which has taken on a significance with me since our church put on an Easter "drama" this year (which we put on every year). I use "drama" however, it is much more than that it is a worship experience. The Lord was there for six nights in April and one of the nights I was getting ready to run up the aisle for the "Triumphal Entry" scene (Palm Sunday) and the props person gave me a tambourine. I was used to waving a palm branch and so this tambourine was a change to the normal routine and yet it had an impact on me ever since. Jesus is making his way through the throngs of people and we are joyfully praising him and bowing and interacting with the audience and when he came my way I bowed on my knees and what does "Jesus" do, he takes the tambourine and he shakes it himself as he helps me up and we dance in the aisle both of us unsure as to what the director would do but it was appropriate for the scene. To make a long story short I interacted with the Lord that night and it was brought on by a tambourine, so Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me!