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Photography: Janelle & Brandon

This past Sunday I had another fun photo shoot with my friends Janelle and Brandon Gregory. They are really fun to hang out with, and also fun to take pictures of!

I was a little worried, as it started raining a little bit on the way to the location, but about the time we stopped the cars it had abated, and ended up being quite a lovely day for taking some photos. The sun was a little uncooperative, peeking out from the clouds at random and usually inopportune times, and the wind decided that ruffled hair would be a good luck for the day, but all in all I think it turned out pretty well. Continue reading →

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Jun 11

Feet to Love

Love, we are told, is a many-splendored thing.

This simple word can instantaneously evoke so many thoughts and emotions, as passion and affection, goodness and ecstasy ring around its guilded panoply.

But brilliance cannot be beheld without balance, else it would blind rather than beatify.

In the Gospels, Jesus is revealed in myriad images. He comes as a king, but in the raiments of a commoner. He is the source of all Good yet bears upon himself the weight of all evil. He is the complete gift of self revealed in Eternal Love, yet is scorned as the Divine Lover.

Love finds that its meaning hangs upon a thread already against the blade. Betokening the embrace of the erotic and the obsession of the compulsive, glimmering as the rarest of gems and as common as the taste upon the tongue, its life seems but a breath, to vanish with the sound in the very act of escaping the mind and the mouth. Continue reading →

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8
Jun 11

Photography: Kara & David

This past weekend I had what amounted to my first ever photo shoot that didn’t:

1. involve my wife (as the subject)

2. involve food

3. involve trees or flowers

Rather, we headed to downtown KC with Megan’s brother David and his girlfriend Kara to get some fun shots. Continue reading →

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Jun 11

Photography: Megan

Yesterday Megan and I headed downtown to do a little bit of location scouting for a photo shoot later today. Late spring’s heat was upon us in all its fury, with nary a cloud to assuage its fire. Nevertheless, it was still a lovely day, and we got a few good photos out of the deal. Continue reading →

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26
May 11

Photography: Love

A few weekends ago Megan and I were down in Wichita visiting my family, and I took some pictures of my grandma’s new apartment.

This one is their wedding picture, and I really love it.

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30
Apr 11

Photography: Botanica

Back in the beginning of this month Megan and I took a trip down to Wichita, KS to visit my family and to help my grandmother move into her new apartment. While we were there, we headed out to Botanica, The Wichita Gardens to enjoy the blooming flowers in the new light of the blossoming spring. Naturally, we brought the camera along to capture some of the beauty, which you will find below. Continue reading →

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6
Mar 11

Cats!

Yesterday Megan and I went over to Brandon and Janelle Gregory’s house for dinner and game night. I had been taking some pictures elsewhere before we arrived, and once I got there I though it might be fun to get some pics of their cats, Sherlock, Frannie and Zooey. Continue reading →

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9
Feb 11

Lights! Camera! Action!

This last week I finished up a new piece for rezlife’s upcoming series, Lights! Camera! Action! I generally do animation for the videos I create, but wanted to go a bit of a different direction with this one. About a week prior Megan and I had purchased a 50mm lens for our Canon T2i, and I really wanted to see what kind of videos I could get out of it.

Rewind to last Tuesday, which was supposed to be Snowpocalypse. Well, it really wasn’t, but it was technically a blizzard and the roads were pretty snow-packed, so both Megan and I stayed home for the day. All morning I was attempting to come up with ideas for this video, and for some reason I couldn’t really think of anything. Finally, at around noon I began to have some spark of an idea, and was able to fully flesh it out in my mind within an hour. So at about 2 pm we started to film. Continue reading →

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26
Jan 11

New Lens

Megan and I finally got a prime lens this week- Canon’s 50mm 1.4. We end up doing a lot of photography for Megan’s food site- The Fresh Fridge- so getting a good prime lens was an inevitability. Our apartment, while having a lovely view of a tiny forested area with a creek immediately behind it, simultaneously suffers from a lack of good natural light. Since the trees are so close, for most of the day it reduces the ambient light rather significantly, making food photography even more difficult than it normally is. During the winter months, noon is essentially the only time to get a decent picture, in that the sun is not directly on the subject, but enough light gets in to adequately illuminate things. Continue reading →

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15
Nov 10

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

This past weekend we celebrated the life of one of the most incredible people who have ever lived- my grandpa, Dean Watson. Of everyone I have ever known, he exemplifies the love and grace of God the most. As I think back on his life and all the memories we shared, I am reminded of the words of 1 John 4:16: