Damn, I’m old!
I have been on this earth 50 years today. That breaks down to: 18,262 days 438,288 hours 26,297,280 minutes Where does all the time go? Into that unique experience each of us calls life. No one else has persevered through the trials and tribulations that I have endured and no one ever will. When you …
Fall Kickoff Sunday
Today was Fall Kickoff Sunday at Alice Drive Baptist Church. I had the privilege of being the photographer covering the day’s events. This is a day when the fall programming is introduced to members and programs for the youth restart after the summer hiatus. Always a lot going on from the student orchestra to Pastor …
Upgrade #4: Personal Preference
After spending a few days with the Nikon Z6 II and doing a photo shoot for Alice Drive Baptist Church, I just couldn’t get comfortable with the handling of the camera body. My experience with camera is to use ones with either a detachable battery pack or one where the body has a larger grip …
Christmas in July
Tonight, Alice Drive Baptist Church had a Pizza Packing Party—packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child at all three of its campuses. I had the privilege of breaking out the new camera and photographing the event at the main campus. So many families turned out for the evening’s pizza party and stuffing shoeboxes. As expected, the …
The missing link in the chain
Today, the final piece of the new mirrorless camera kit arrived, thanks to the fine folks at UPS. The Nikon FTZ II allows me to use my legacy camera lenses with the new lens mount of the Nikon Z series cameras. It’s funny to be going thru this process again. When I was a student at …
Sunflowers at Sunrise
So I did a thing this morning. For what may be one of the last times in my life, I pulled an all-nighter prepping camera gear and getting some work done in the home office. Why, do you ask? A sunrise photo session with hundreds upon thousands of sunflowers. I hoped to get some glorious …