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………
