A few more images from this past weekend

Here are a few more of the images that I shot at Equine Affaire in Pomona, Ca. Those of you who are near Columbus, Ohio should seriously consider going out to see all the wonderful exhibitors and demonstrations they have. It is a horse lovers dream.

The Equine Affaire Pomona, Ca

Hey, I just completed spending four days shooting at The Equine Affaire in Pamona, California where the latest and greatest in the Equine industry can be found. It has been an awesome time with not nearly enough time to shoot everything there. Here are a few of the images that I was a ble to capture while there, enjoy.

Things are changing

After a year of not posting, this is a new year. Lots of changes last year. This your I have moved my web sites to one location and am starting to post the new site. I currently have the splash page and a slide show with the contact page ready. Other pages and sections like the photo galleries will be added as often as I can over the next month. Take a look at the slide show, it will change some too with the music being reworked to keep it from having the dead spots.

Hope you all are having a great new year, we may all be faced with a different world these next months but it is still awesome to be doing the things we all ove and hold dearly. I will try to add a few new photos this year as well as be here more often. I started a new equine photographers group where we work together to raise the level skills for of all members.

God bless in the coming months.

Texas Sunset 2008

I went out yesterday evening about sunset and saw a beautiful sky growing more beautiful. By the time I could reach a good spot, it was fading fast but still a wonderful sight. It is the first photo I have taken in Texas this year so a nice place to stop and reflect on the setting of 2007 and the rising of 2008. I hope you all have a wonderful New Year with many blessings. This year is promising to be the best for me in many years as so many wonderful things are happening with each day passing. I will share more later....I know I have very few post here over the past year but maybe this year will be able to share more of Charlie's travels and images with you all.

Blessings and a wonderful new Year to you all,
Charles

Colorado Trip in August

I spent the first two weeks of August working in Colorado. There were many images created for different clients, these are a few and even a personal one or two. I photographed humming birds and some butterflies along with people. Just a few to share this time.

Visit to the zoo

As I have said before, time does fly. I spent some time yesterday with my grandson. He has grown a lot in just a few months, what a joy!

I am headed out to Colorado to do some work and a workshop. I enjoy photography with a passion and try to go out to photograph anything of God’s creation even the animals held in a zoo. They can be expressive as well as beautiful. Here are a few images I took while spending about 45 minutes with a friend who had just purchased a new lens that I have had for about a year. We were shooting to help her learn about the big differences shooting with a big lens can have.

Here are a few of my images, they are pretty easy to figure out what they are. Hope you enjoy them. Take care and God’s blessings to you.

Life is good!

WOW, Does time fly by! I had promised myself that I would post something more often than I have but like life there are many unexpected thing that happen along the way and we just can’t do all we would like to accomplish. Such has been my life these last few months.

Many exciting things are happening and have happened with a few difficulties thrown in there. Taking the good and bad as a whole and moving forward is always the way I have tried to live and I love living my life to the fullest and encouraging others to let God have control by acknowledging Him in all things and then enjoy how it all fits together to make up a lifetime.

I will be headed out after a shoot in Oklahoma City for the mountains in Montana to photograph those wonderful mustangs who have captured my heart and soul. As I share images with others and the experiences of being there having horses come and share a part of their heart as they seem to penetrate through the lens deeply within my heart that someone needs to share their real story.

Horses have thought me a lot about myself and about who I am in the mist we call life. It is honestly difficult to see or to comprehend all we have about us. The images I want to share are not of horses this time but help to share about time, life beauty and just shear joy that being alive with all the beauty in a difficult world we live in. We have not been forgotten but now and then we are given a taste of heaven through seeing something with an eye and heart that gives understanding to life itself.

The first image is of an old truck, rusted, tires flat, probably has been a long time since it could actually go anywhere without being towed. Sometimes I feel that way myself but always to now the feet are reminded by my heart that the journey may only be beginning and they have to move to go on into it. Like this old truck if it could speak, what would the stories it would share of the good old glory days and the families that it shared.

Seeing something like that reminds me of my family and the life I have had to now. As I am reminded, with wonderful memories I do see that God’s hand was always there bringing me a peace now days that is so wonderful words can’t describe. One time a friend asked me why are you so peaceful? My response was that not to many years ago, I realized that I wasn’t in control but God truly was. Letting go of trying to do and make things happen helped me to just enjoy all that is. There will be good and bad happen to us all the time but the reality if we will acknowledge God, He delights in directing our path and that brings peace beyond circumstances into a peace that only He can give us.

The second image is a photo that I took several weeks ago in Arizona for a friend and client. At times there are moments in life so wonderful to experience that words just can’t express. As a photographer, it is not talent or the technical things that make moments what they are but the gift of the moment to me by God allowing me even be a part of. I have created many images but some are truly a gift and I know the moment I shoot it when it happens even when I see in the viewfinder and am shooting 8 frames a second. When those special moments happen, I always have to stop and look at the image as I know something wonderful has occurred.

This image is one of a dad and his two daughters. Just for those moms out there who will read this I have to explain with all your mothering talents, only a dad can realize how a man feels about his children especially his daughters who own his heart as much as can be owned. This image shows so much of that even though there isn’t a lot of detail to see in the eyes or faces but the body language, every part that is visible expresses both a dad and his daughters love in a way that took hold of my heart.

Go out and see the beauty of the world, let your heart be filled. There is a lot of ugly in the world too and it will drag you down to the pit if you refuse to acknowledge the simple things and beauty you time here brings. God bless you all with moments you see His hand in the flash of a moment as it passes before your eyes. Life is good………