Well, the season is in full swing!  Brenda and Kyle, THANKS!

It has been a while since I've posted on this blog and if you read my last post you will know why.   I'm finally getting caught up.   Now just to get ahead a little bit.  To all of my wonderful clients, thank you for you patience and understanding.

When I started photography 10 years ago, I really started out of an interest in the technicality of photography.  Photography as a craft is highly technical: iso, focal length, f-stop, megapixels, shutter speed, flash guide numbers, megabytes, gigabytes, gigahertz, etc.   Photography for me when I began was really material for my enjoyment of the technical aspect of photography.

Every once in a while I am graced to be able to step back and look at myself in action from a more detached viewpoint and when I do so I am surprised to find myself changed.  After my shoot with Kelsey and Wade, as I was driving home, I realized that not once during the entire shoot did the technical aspects of photography entire in to my conscious.  The camera was simply an extension of my hand and eye and the manipulation of the camera was no more conscious than the manipulation of my hand to hold or eye to see.

So what?  It was again, for me, a recognition that I've changed.   I shoot now to see life.   The camera is simply my ticket to look at life and relationships and be struck again by the newness that reality always is, to be moved by gift of the circumstances which I get to see.   

Being moved is simply a reaction of my heart to seeing.  

I just wanted to drop a note to all of my current clients who are waiting for album designs that are taking longer than usual and ask for your patience and give the reason for the delay. 

On Thanksgiving Day this year my father passed away from pancreatic cancer.  Starting two months before his death, I spent every single weekend that I was able with him.  Then start two to three weeks before his death I basically lived with him in order to assist in his care.  This time was absolutely the most beautiful time I've spent in my life.  The day after his funeral I had an emergency removal of my appendix which put me out of commission for another week plus.  Christmas and New Years, especially after my father passed away so recently extended my non-working time another ten days.   Since I've been able to get back into the office and work I've spent all of my time meeting deadlines for clients who I photographed during this period.

Starting last week, I was completely caught up with these obligation and I am now fervently designing and producing albums.

Thank you for your patience.

Tim

What is love but the gift of oneself to another,
expecting nothing in return, but rather
abandoning oneself to the good of another
and in this abandonment
experiencing my own fulfillment.

Mike and Jeri-Sue, thank you for letting me into your lives on such an important day surrounded by great friends and family.   Your love moves me.

This wedding really challenged me to know why I do what I do.   Let me explain.  Often times in life we do things as routine or according to plans or according to our calendar, which for me fills up over a year in advance.  In this business we lose sight of why.  

On Thanksgiving day this year my father passed away with his funeral the following Monday.  Then on the next day, Tuesday, I had my appendix removed in an emergency operation that had me in the hospital, where I grew up, until that Wednesday.  The following two days were filled with me trying to decide if I was able to shoot this wedding between Boe and Casey.  As you can see, I did shoot this wedding because I got the answer to my question from reality and memory of faith.

I was in front of quite a few really good excuses to not shoot this wedding, father's death, major surgery, etc. so I really did have to decide to shoot this wedding and I am glad that I did.

As you will see Boe and Casey are wonderful people, surrounded by wonderful people. 

This experience reminded me of why I shoot weddings: Beauty with a capital "B".  The kind of Beauty that calls you to faith.

Casey and Boe, thank you.