little white dress.

my friend, hiyas, let me take photos whilst we hunted for her wedding dress.  thanks, hiyas!

there is truth in suffering.

Give all of yourself.  Your soul.  Your heart.  Your joy.  Give more if it creates more of all that good stuff within you.  Give without looking back.  Give to replenish; to breathe; to exhale.  Reach deep and leave this world a little better than you found it.  Just give.  Time may run out for giving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's wisdom: "Insist on yourself.  Never imitate."

freedom is relative.

Inspiration

My inspiration lies within me.  It is the feeling I get when I take a picture.  The feeling I get when I see my photos on the computer screen.  The countless hours I can spend developing a picture to make it look perfectly pleasing to me.  I rarely have time to pay attention to beautiful things.  Either that, or beauty always seems fleeting.  So I try to recreate it or explain it.  That's what I try to do with photography.  My eyes see things a certain way.  A sunset, the sky, a smiling face, a pensive look--those things are beautiful to me because of what they mean to me inside; because of who I am inside; because of the meaning I give to it inside.  With my photography, I am attempting to recreate for others the beauty I see in the world through my eyes.  It is capturing the unseen and the unnoticed.  It is capturing emotion, meaning and significance.  It is capturing time. 

photo credit: Hendrik Pretorius