Breanna's Senior Pictures

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of taking senior portraits for my dear friend Breanna. The weather was wonderful that day and Lewisville Park was a perfect setting. Here are some of my favorites.

What Love!

"Not only saints, but even men who do not know the Lord have patiently suffered the most atrocious pains, but in Jesus, with his infinite pains, there was a secret, inner pain that we are unable to penetrate. It is the pain of carrying alone the weight of our sins before the holy God--he the innocent for us the guilty. It is the pain of finding himself as if separated by them for a moment (though I scarcely dare to touch on the mystery), separated for a moment from love of the Father (if one can speak in these terms) though remaining one with him, and forced to cry out, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Why does he suffer thus? For you, sinner, for you. And he loved you so much that if there were none but you to save on earth, he would have entered his Gethsemane for you. What love, my God, what love!"

Adolphe Monod, Living in the Hope of Glory

Some late snow

We've had hardly any snow this winter, until last week. It didn't stay long but it was very pretty while it lasted!

Raindrops

It's been raining a lot lately. I like to watch the way the rain hits the back deck, and I decided to play around with some raindrop shots. This is what I came up with. I put a high contrast black & white Lightroom preset on most of them, which brings out the lines and circles more. These shots ended up reminding me a little bit of shooting with black & white film.

For the Birds

Our family enjoys having a bird feeder right outside the kitchen window. Since we put up the suet cage again it seems like it's been especially busy out there. Some of our favorite visitors are the bushtits. They're extremely small and they really stick together. It's fun to watch a whole bunch of them crowd onto the suet cage at all these crazy angles. I took these pictures of the bushtits and a couple of the other birds we get while I was messing around with my telephoto lens.