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6.12.18

Love documented:: synopsis of recent favorites | him+her edition

Oh my, here comes a photo overload. What a whirlwind these have been, watching both newfound and dear childhood friends celebrate togetherness

🤍🤍🤍

so much so... indeed I haven’t gotten around to posting any of these prior to this. Eeks. There is far too much to be shared from an event or a piece in time of one’s life in just photos, and I’m finding this more and more as life eases along (the father walking his first child down the aisle; the young, giddy, teary-eyed fiancé who has found the one she loves; the devoted husband and wife of many years in marriage and life; all the tiny, most wonderful happenings that go uncaught by camera glass) -

but it’s still worth it.

It's still so worth it to retain, to capture, to remember.

To take a glance at an image and recall all over, again and again, of how that moment,

that embrace,

even that chilly whisper of the wind,

was etched in time and God’s heart alike. 📷 ✍️💕

without further ado...

(shoutout to Olivia and Jennifer whom I shot a few of these weddings with)

20.9.17

home is wherever I'm with you. | Family Portraits

My Sister is getting married! | Engagement

"...Later that evening Rebekah and I were able to talk for a couple hours. We both found the conversation very enjoyable.

Interestingly, at the time, God had us both in the middle of challenging and stretching things that were taking us outside our comfort zones, and looking back, it’s really neat to us how we were able to encourage each other to trust in God and focus on Him through those things.

However, all we did was meet and talk that evening and then went back to our separate lives –

just as they had been for 20 years before...

I don’t remember the exact day that it happened (I think it was a growing surety) but one day I realized that I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

that Rebekah was the woman that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with."

The Music of Life | Personal

"...the music of life lies not in your circumstances or external things

but in your own soul."

Excerpt from Sept. 28,Streams in the Desert

17.7.17

the Brown Three before deployment | Portraits

4.5.16

recent favorites | Senior Portraits

28.1.16

Luke & Melissa | Wedding

This post is one of a young bride, the vow she wrote and the people that were there to hear it - a post that should have been posted a long, long ways back closer to the time...

7.1.16

Bringing our Best | Personal

Surely one should bring the best she has, whatever that is, to the work of God's world?

For what are they, both of them, the one just as much as the other, but listening to 'what the people will say', to opinion, to the 'voices from without?'

And as a wise man has said, no one has ever done anything great or useful

by listening to the voices from without.

And now, you think these things trifles, or at least exaggerated.

But what you 'think' or what I 'think' matters little.

Let us see what God thinks of them. God always justifies His ways.

Oh, go your way straight to God's work,

in simplicity and singleness of heart.