Ordinary Miracles

What are ordinary miracles? They are the day-to-day events that we often overlook because they are so commonplace. This includes pregnancy, love, laughter, sunrise, rain, snow, the transformation of the seasons, holding your baby for the first time, the smile of a child, breathing! How easily we forget the greatness of these life experiences in our daily race of living! These are ordinary because we all experience them, many of us in great abundance. But in the ordinary is the extraordinary, and there we discover the miracle. Many of us do not take notice of our ordinary miracles until they are taken from us. Some of us may never notice them at all.

Have you ever watched Charlotte's Web? The one with Dakota Fanning? I stole this concept from the beautiful song by Sarah McLachlan, Ordinary Miracle, which is played in this movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rweU-FFE6Ww&feature=related). Funny what you can learn from a children's story! This is such a beautiful song (and I love her voice)! There is beauty all around us and so many opportunities to enjoy it throughout our days. We just have to pay attention!

So this is my hope in my pursuit of professional photography-to capture the ordinary miracles of life and place them in the form of a photograph into the hands of my clients. I hope you begin to be renewed in your perception of the happenings of your everyday! What ordinary miracles are you overlooking in the busyness of life?

More Family Photos

Family Photos!

We ventured out to do some family photos this past weekend! These are the first photos I have done of our baby girl walking really well. She was having so much fun trying to get away from us! These are two of my great loves of this life. I am so thankful to spend each day with them and pray I can treasure each moment we have together.

Blog Make-Over!

I am currently working on my blog, with the goal of forming it into a personal/photography blog as I begin to pursue professional photography. Here I will post general life updates as well as my most recent photography sessions. If any of you have gone through this before, blog designing is hard work-especially if you are starting from no where! So bear with me and hopefully it will continue to grow and develop as I learn and experiment!

Fix-It Friday!

This beautiful image was taken by Wendy VonSosen http://wendyvonsosen.com/. You can follow the link below to the I Heart Faces Fix-It Friday to see her edit along with many others from the I Heart Faces Community!  http://iheartfaces.ning.com/forum/topics/fix-it-friday-149?id=2990390%3ATopic%3A771338&page=1#comments

Before

After

I edited using Gimp since I am still saving to purchase Photoshop (not actively saving yet since we are purchasing a condo, but plan to after that!). I started by adjusting the curves and the color balance. Then I boosted up the contrast and added a pink layer, setting the opacity pretty low. I added a bit more yellow/green using the saturation and finished with the unsharp mask. Fairly simple edit, but I like it!

I Heart Faces Challenge: Enjoying Life

I love this image captured between this beautiful couple! When I look at it, I see their love for each other overflowing as they anticipate together the arrival of their baby girl. Pregnancy and birth are one of the many ordinary miracles of everyday life-we should never take these moments for granted.

Enter your Enjoying Life photo at I Heart Faces this week!

This photo was submitted to the I Heart Faces photo challenge – www.iheartfaces.com