Headshots.

I just recently added Brad Baker's head shots to our photo library on the new computer. Brad is a professional singer and he has done all kinds of different shows. He has traveled with several different cruise lines as one of the male leads and now I think he is doing a show in Branson, Missouri. I might be wrong about that, but either way, he's an incredible singer and has had steady work for the past three years in the entertainment business, which is no easy thing to do. 

These shots were taken last summer for his head shots. He definitely wanted something different and fun. I think we did a good job of achieving that! 

This looks like Brad's hand is cut off, but it's still a good shot.

A picture I've always wanted to capture.

So I've always seen those landscape pictures that are beautiful. The pictures that are all framed and beautiful and EXPENSIVE. The pictures that I've always wanted to buy, but could never bring myself to do it because of the money, and because I always knew that I could take a picture like that if given the opportunity. It's not the taking the picture that's the hard part. It's nature creating the opportunity that hasn't quite cooperated. 

Well, good news. This past weekend of one of my very best friends had a shower out in the middle of no man's land here in East Alabama. There was a log cabin and a lake involved. There was also a beautiful sunset that created one of the most beautiful pictures that I can now blow up to a huge size and hang on my wall. Thank you, God. I surely enjoyed experiencing the beauty of that moment in person, and not through somebody else's insanely expensive photo.

Random side note: I always feel that anytime 'and' is used in the middle of a sentence, a comma should come before it. I know that's offending a rule of language, but I don't care.

If you ever come to my house, expect to see these framed.

We had the most awesome church service today. The praise team was praying before the service and I could tell from the time that prayer started, it was going to be an awesome day. The praise time at the beginning had my adrenaline going so strong that I wanted to hug every neck in the room. For those who know me, I am not affectionate, so that was a big deal. We got to the worship time and we sung a song called "Grace Flows Down". The words are:

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,

Amazing love, now flowing down,

From hands and feet, that were nailed to a tree,

As grace flows down and covers me.

It covers me, It covers me, It covers me, It covers me.

This song struck me to the core today. There is never anything that I do or don't do that can separate me from the love of Christ. More than that, He doesn't even remember my sin. Every time I sin it's like the first time I ever have. And the grace comes flowing down, and it covers me.

It is an awesome thing to sing a part of a song over and over again. Some people complain that worship songs are "7-11" songs, 7 words sung 11 times, but the bible calls us to meditate on scripture and on truth. Meditate means to repeat over and over. Only then do the words really penetrate into the heart. It is always an amazing thing to be refreshed by worship. It is the one thing that always gives me hope and peace when nothing else can. There are times while in worship that I could just sit totally still for hours in the presence of Christ, soaking up every second that I get to experience Him. 

Ben, our pastor, said something that really stuck with me. He said that we, as humans, are spiritual beings. He said that when we choose to "fill" ourselves with purely physical things we become unsatisfied. Physical things can only fill us temporarily, leaving us empty and onto the next physical thing. If we choose to fill ourselves with spiritual things, our satisfaction will be eternal. This embodies the idea that serving Christ is satisfying because I know that I am spending time and energy investing into something that is eternal, not something that is going to last only an hour, or a lifetime. 

What a blessing to go to a church where there is truth and life.

Ellen and Justin's Engagement Pictures

Ellen is one of my very best friends. She is one of the most Godly people I know and it's been incredible having a friend that shares my same passion for Christ. She is incredibly talented and is very funny:) Her and Justin have been dating for 6ish years I think? Anyway, they got engaged this past Fall so we took some pictures shortly after. They are both photogenic so all of these pictures happened so naturally. Sometimes taking pictures of people is really hard, but not with these two. It was great fun.

I think this is my favorite.

My dogs...

It is known to the world that I am obsessed with my dogs. I don't care that they shed. I don't care that they make me sneeze. And I don't care that sometimes they throw up after drinking too much water. I love to take pictures of them when I'm bored. They are quite photogenic.

I like this picture. I don't know why.

Kayde.

Salem.

Posting Pictures Again!! The Hanners Wedding!

Here are some pictures I shot this past summer. I just now edited them because I thought I had erased them all. Luckily, I hadn't. I learned a lot from this wedding. Holly was beautiful and nervous! They were both awesome and we are friends so the whole thing was really fun.

Holly. The bride.

Holly. The incredibly beautiful bride. My favorite of the day.

The rings with the bridesmaids flowers.

This picture of Justin, the groom, turned out pretty cool. I don't think I meant to shoot this either.

I love this picture of Justin and Holly walking out...

I wish I had retouched the wire and the car...I still can I guess.

This is the wedding party. A major lesson I learned from this wedding was that the sun seriously screws things up. They are all squinty and shadowed around their eyes. I have heard that the sun does this but I have never experienced it first hand. Now I know!

Justin and his possy, with squinty eyes, but looking sharp.

Holly is really beautiful...The church where the wedding was wasn't all that beautiful, but the land around it served as an awesome backdrop. I didn't think so at the time, but now revisiting the pictures, they turned out great. I love the horse in the background.

I absolutely adore this picture...This little girl is stunningly beautiful.

This is the same girl again...I couldn't get enough pictures of her!