Hello
December 10th, 2007
I apologize for the lack of updates, I’ve been taking a break from shooting to re-evaluate my career goals and such. During this time I’ve had a chance to update my website and my equipment, with a new F1.4 lens scheduled to arrive this week so I can have the option of capturing low-light situations without a flash. This will be the last update of the year as I will be in Thailand with my cameras documenting Christian missionary efforts and working alongside the Mien People. I’ll post pictures when I get back.
In the meantime, happy holidays everyone! Take plenty of pictures, especially of your loved ones. If you’re extra ambitious, try this: make a list of people who matter to you the most and spend some time taking pictures of them. They’re going to the supermarket, you say. Not a big deal.
But don’t forget, we all aren’t meant to be on earth forever, and the people you care most about might be here today and gone tomorrow. Yet here’s what I love about pictures: they freeze time and a moment can very well last forever. So that picture of your mom giving you a strange look for snapping a picture of her at the checkout line will increase in value to you over time, because everything is changing everywhere, all of the time.
A few months ago I attended a funeral of a friend who died of cancer. At the viewing her husband and her family/friends surrounded my friend with photo collages of her. It was truly a testimony to a full life she had lived caring and loving others before cancer took her life.
We can talk to no end about angles and color, aperture and shutter speed, but in the end if you capture moments that matter to you then I think you’ve got yourself an excellent picture.