My utmost...

Every time I go back to "My Utmost for His Highest" I am just amazed at the writings. If I tried to take the most meaningful quote from each day, I would end up quoting the entire daily devotion...

I Heart Faces- Winter Wonderland

This week's theme is Winter Wonderland. This moment was captured when my son was experience what I think will be his first memory of snow. :) Click on the to view the image larger.

Check out all the other wonderful pictures over at I Heart Faces!

A new name.

Although this is a very new blog with very few posts and even fewer viewers, I am changing the name. I have been wanting to start a new blog for some time and although I have had a general idea bouncing around in my head for sometime, it has been very hard to have that idea materialize. I finally acquired a new blog address about a month ago so that I could enter the I Heart Faces weekly challenges. I am not a professional photographer, an amateur photographer would be a kind description but photography has always captured me. It is a voice, it is a art, it is a memory. And I want to get better at it (I know... I know... a sentence fragment, but it is how I think!) So I picked a blog address and put a few pics up and it met the requirements for I Heart Faces but yet I was still very uninspired. I didn't have anything to write about or even to say either through words or photographs.
As the new year has rolled in, I have reflected on my last 32 years and made some "goals" for the coming year and it is in this process that I found my inspiration. Light. For seeing light and feeling its warmth and beauty is something I do naturally, a gift I might say, but capturing it and reflecting it is another story. My epiphany came when I realized that this was true from a photography standpoint as well as spiritually. And that is something I want to get better at. So this is my journey for 2011 and on. Being quiet and seeing the Light, capturing it and reflecting it. I am not perfect. I will fail at times, maybe most of the time... but this is the journey I choose. -Jacq

Rainy Day

The other day it was raining so hard that you couldn't see the neighbors on the hill behind my house.  The light was unusual so I grabbed my camera and took a shot!

Missed shot

Well I didn't quite make the I Heart Faces challange.  I have a great idea but I will have to work on it some before I think I can get it.  However I did find a giveaway to HomeGoods on No Big Dill's blog.  Check it out!

I Heart Faces- Scenic B&W

Cusco, Peru at night

This is my first time entering a I Heart Faces contest.  I chose a night photo for my entry.  I love that you can barely see the Christ statue at the top of the frame as he looks down and keeps watch over the city. I also love how the lights seem to dance off the picture.
Make sure to view the other scenic pictures at I Heart Faces this week!

A New Blog

Wow, a new blog.  I'm not really sure if anyone will be interested in it or not, but it is an "authentic audience" as my Education professors would like to say.  An authentic audience inspires me to write and post, even when the writing is done mostly for me. So here I am, starting a new blog.  I hope to focus on my photography... not that it is special but the hope is that it will get better.  I hope to stretch myself, get some feed back and share my world, at least the world I see from behind the viewfinder!  Enjoy.