The cross we carry

The cross we carry is never so heavy as the chains from which we were freed.
"O Lord , truly I am your servant: you have freed me from my chains."
Psalms:116:6


My sister added this to the bottom of a letter she wrote me. It really touched me. I never really thought of this before. The truth is... the troubles we have in life are hard and heavy to carry. However, when I think of the chains he freed me from how can I give up. There are times i feel I can not carry it but God truly has been good to me. Life has not been a bed of roses for me . I can not even begin to tell you how fearful I was for many years. How I lived like that I will never understand, but God worked and worked with me and has truly been there for me every step off the way. I am a different person and so grateful for his love and mercy in my life. He really did free me from the chains . He has changed so may things in me and loved me when no-one else did. I love Him and pray I can always remember what God freed me from. I pray I never think living for Him is to much work. Thank you Andre' for what you sent me. It really made me think.

Children & Seniors

I have been thinking and working on narrowing my business down. I have decided after much thought to focus on working with children up to seniors. I will still do sports during the ball season. Many photographers are variety photographers and some just focus on one thing. I feel I do great at engagements also but it involves weddings. Since I won't be doing weddings for a while , I feel I should not do the engagements either. When you get into photography some times it takes a few years to feel after what you want to focus on. Many photographers change their focus and start something new. So many people want me to stay with weddings but it is just to demanding . I have three children and I didn't like being away from my family 7 hours on a Saturday . My business is small and I like that I am free to be there for my kids. My family is the most important thing to me. If my husbands job ever changes then I may go back to weddings. I enjoy working with children and I love senior work so this will be my focus. I will be able to do many of my children sessions in the studio or on location during the week . I will do some children and the senior sessions on the weekends . Of course senior sessions are seasonal so most of the time I will be working with children sessions. I am going to be working on some new products to offer my seniors soon. I am ordering some really awesome muslins and going to work on added some new areas for my studio . I am so happy because I normally have my head going in 1oo directions for all the different kinds of sessions I have. Any one out there that is ADD knows what I am talking about. (LOL) Those nights you stay up and your mind goes 100 miles a hour. How great it will be to put all my attention and focus on just children ,teens seniors and outdoor sports. I simply can't wait!!!!!!

Hilton & Laura

I had a great time with Hilton & Laura for their engagement session. I was so excited to have my friend Stacy with me for the session. Stacy has a love for photography and is great at it. She helped me so much when I first got into photography. She came to help hold my lights for me and took a few shots with me which I loved. I used some of my new lighting on the first 3 images you see here. I really like the results. I enjoy photography so much and love having fun doing a session with a friend who loves it as much as I do. Anyway, I wish Hilton & Laura the very best together. They are a great couple!!!

Luke

Luke is such a precious baby boy. I have taken several pictures for this family. I really enjoy them when they have a session with me. He is to cute!

Publish Post

The dash

I don't know how to add this video. You can copy and paste it to watch it. It is so touching and life changing.


http://www.adashmovie.com/

Kelly's Session

I had a good time with Kelly in her portrait session. We did these pictures at my friend Candy's house. We used my new lighting technique I learned at a workshop. Thanks you Candy for being my assistant with the lights. I have to have some help to hold the light where I need it at times. I must say these came out awesome! Here is a few of my favorites.

Jesus Poster Causes Controversy

I truly don't understand what this world is thinking anymore. If we ever wonder why this country is struggling . It is because the world wants to take the Lord out of everything! Then they wonder why everything is so out of control.