Fairgreen Shoot

Shot with Fairgreen yesterday. Frank (lead vox) and I used to play in Valvalis together back in the day. Check them out: http://www.myspace.com/fairgreen.

The Follett's II

The Follett's

Summit Grove Camp

I spent the night in New Freedom, PA last night with TimA and his mom. I've been going up there with them for the past five or six years and every time it's nothing short of refreshing. Their cottage is quaint and timeless; filled with generations of memories. Hopefully this was the first of many trips this summer.

I'm Slacking!

Excuses, excuses, excuses... I know, I'm sorry I haven't been updating as much as I should. Rick H. would say, "there's always a justification and it will always never be good enough." Hope you each had a lovely Independence Day. I stalked the parade that sets up behind my house every year; they shut down our street so it's only fair. My dad, brother and I went to Catonsville High School and watched the fireworks, we had a lot of fun!

She's So Vane

The Aliens Have Landed

After months of bringing ribs, burgers, and beer to guests at Damon's, I finally have 2400W of studio lighting sitting in my bedroom (thank you Jesus!). If anyone is interested in a sunburn, let me know :)

My New Favorite Place In The World

O' how I love you Harpers Ferry, WV.

Riley and Faith

Recently...

My free trial of Capture NX 2 ended about a week ago which has lead to a lack of posts lately. Normally the software is $179 at which I cringe. I found it for $120 today, realizing I was going to need it if I ever wanted to do digital photography again, I bought it. Anyway, here's a couple photos from the last couple days. I'm looking forward to getting back to shooting; I have a photo shoot with two adorable little girls tomorrow. :)

How Much Do You Know God?

I encourage you, if you have an hour to spare, refresh your souls with this profound word from Paul Washer. Ask the Holy Spirit to open your ears to hear and your heart to receive the truth of this message.

Damon's Double

Back to work after two weeks off. Pleasant day mostly. We introduced a whole new menu. Stop by sometime, we have these incredible pulled pork quesadillas now.

I met up with Eric S. from my Thailand team today. He's moving to New York tomorrow so we caught up on life over a Chinese buffet. I tried real sushi for the first time today. It'll have to grow on me. Eric invited me to go visit his friend Dane who he's been mentoring. He's a great kid. We played Wii sports for like 3 hours.

AIM Photo Contest

Here's a few more photos I entered for AIM's photo contest from my Swaziland trip in '07. They're not technically sound/taken with a point and shoot but I think they fit their criteria of capturing ministry a little better than my Thailand photos.

Camden Yards - My Favorite Place on Earth

I went to the game tonight with Bob and Ryan. The O's were trying to extend their winning streak to six, but lost 6-3. Guthrie had 10 strike outs; Luke Scott hit another homer (6 in 4 games); and saw Matt Wieters first major league hit- a triple.

The first shot was with my Nikon 50mm @ f/8. The second shot was my Tamron 17-50mm @ 17mm - f/8. I'm debating about changing up my lens line-up. I would like the Tokina 11-16mm or the new Nikon 10-24mm. I'm not a big fan of this Tamron 17-50mm. The distortion is really annoying and kind of complicated to fix.

AIM Photo Contest

Adventures In Missions is having their first photo contest. Brilliant! First prize is $3k! That is fantastic, especially since it's free to enter. The theme revolves around ministry abroad from an AIM trip. You can enter here; check out the entries here. I don't know how they're going to judge, there are so many good photos. It's been inspiring to look through the entries. I love the stories that go along with them.

It's a long shot, but I entered these photos:

Down'a Ocean (click to see full size)

Down'a Ocean With the Boys

I have at least 30 photos I've been trying to upload for the last three days. Not sure if there's a problem with my laptop or the network here. This picture of Ryan took an hour to upload; I'll try again later.

Fighting On Our Faces

Tonight, we met for our weekly prayer meeting to seek the Lord with our proposed move to Candlewood. The presence of the Lord was there and He spoke peace over the room. We will follow the LORD; focusing on the journey, not so much the destination.

Jacob Michael Kaiser

Noah H.

This is my buddy Noah; Rick and Marleen's son.

Star Trek

Jacob (my brother) and I decided to drive up to Pennsylvania tonight solely to take photos of the stars. Nearly hitting a deer at 65mph and another at 40mph, oh and two raccoons too; a McDonalds feasts, and ending up in some really creepy woods, I think think the results were worth it.

"you should see the stars tonight
how they shimmer shine so bright
against the black they look so white
coming down from such a height
to reach me now, reach me now

you should see the moon in the flight
cutting cross the misty night
softly dancing in sunshine
reflections of this light
reach me now, you reach me now

and how could such a thing
shine its light on me
and make everything beautiful again

and you should feel the sun in the spring
coming out after a rain
suddenly all is green
sunshine on everything
I can feel it now, i feel you now

and how could such a thing
shine its light on me
and make everything beautiful

and you should hear the angels sing
all gathered round their king
more beautiful than you could dream
I've been quietly listening
you can hear 'em now, i hear em now

and how could such a king
shine His light on me
and make everything beautiful
and i wanna shine
i wanna be light
i wanna tell you it'll be alright
and i wanna shine and i wanna fly
just to tell you now
it'll be alright, it'll be alright
it'll be alright.

'Cause I got nothing of my own to give to you
but this light that shines on me shines on you
and makes everything beautiful, again.
it'll be alright, it'll be alright."

"Stars," David Crowder Band

Unite Video Part Two

Made another video for Living Hope's Unite campaign. Thanks to Olivia, Jacob and Mike.

Wanna help out the campaign, click here.

More Macro

Still playing with the reversed 50mm.

I Hate These Buggers

I really really hate these bugs. They are infatuated with the sun and incredibly horny. All they do is mate and die. I find them digging holes in my window screen, sometimes making it into my room. GAH!

I bought a new Nikon 50mm f/1.8D today. I reversed it on my D90 to get this shot.