Shooting from the Heart – Finding My Purpose

A Bend in the River : Prints Available


By the time I have pressed the shutter to take the first image on a trip, I have done countless hours of research and studying for the particular area or areas in which I will travel. I have studied locations and looked at numerous images shot from the locations I intend on traveling to. I want to be as prepared as I can once I arrive so I can just drive and/or hike out to the location and not have to think too much about the technical aspects of the camera or try to imagine what I want the image to look like. However, a lot of times, when I sit in awe and wonder of all that God has Created and the incredible beauty and detail in which He has done so, my emotions tend to take over and I find myself totally changing what emotions and feelings I want to convey. You see, my goal is not to sell countless numbers of prints to people who love my work. My goal is to bring an awareness to all of the beauty around us; beauty that was made by the very Hand of God. I want people to feel some of the same emotions I feel when I am standing before scenes like this, as if they were actually there. To bring an awareness to Him who Created the Heavens and the earth and all that inhabit them. Being out in places like this all alone, really puts things in perspective, and that I believe is one of the main reasons I love photography.
Levi and myself arrived at 4am this thursday morning to shoot the stars first, and then to be there for sunrise. After spending quite sometime around this area, we moved down to the area that I thought would be our “sunrise spot”. But about 30 minutes before the sun came up, about a dozen other photographers arrived on the scene from a camera club in California. So after talking with them for about 20 minutes and deciding that there weren’t going to be any clouds in the sky, I put on my waders and headed out into the water working my way downstream to shoot some other areas I had scouted the day before. So these are two images I came away with. One from the wee hours, and the other from the previous day after a storm. Enjoy! “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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