what’s driving me?

i have shoots i want to post, that are waiting, somewhat patiently for their time to shine on this little blog. and i have no doubt that there are a number of individuals that are looking forward to seeing them on here as well.

i’m not going to today about those things. i’ve been sick for over a week now and now that my head has cleared and i can string my thoughts together into a line that makes more sense than not, i’ve found that the week of doing almost nothing has led to some pretty profound/resounding thoughts for me.

i guess what has started this whole thing is what i really should start with. my dear friends marc and charlene are about to start their next greatest adventure and my heart is, well, heavy i suppose, but i’m actually really excited for them too. heavy because they will be moving to lima, peru (south america) until the end of june 2010. or so i’m told. plans change when you tell God you’re going to follow his plans for your life like these two are. and i’m going to miss them like crazy the whole time. and plan the best wii/bbq party that never happened this summer.

chars, as i’ve always called her, and i grew up together. our friendship really became important to me in my junior high/high school days and she has definitely been one of the constants in my life that i could always count on, no matter what. marc entered the picture a few years back – around the same time that brad entered my picture actually – and i’m just as excited to see him as i am to see chars whenever we get together now. of course, these two will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart for the simple reason of them COMPLETELY trusting me to take their wedding photos. with no prior experience. my first wedding ever, of two spectacular people who happen to call me their friend. and it was spectacular. the entire time, they encouraged me, helped me when i felt frazzled and made sure that MY experience was amazing. SERIOUSLY, spectacular people these two!

anyways, they sent out support letters a few months back, letting friends/family know their plans for the next year and what they will be doing. i knew they had been planning to go to peru for a while now and i still secretly pray that someone will want to sponsor me to go visit them, to document a bit of their work and preserve some of those moments for them. in any case, what struck me, more this past week as i’ve been thinking of them leaving, was what they started the letter off with. it was the question of what was driving our lives.

a scary question to ask yourself. what’s driving you? my friends are choosing to take a year off from pursuing their dreams and education to pursue a Kingdom perspective. it got me to thinking, am i pursuing that perspective enough to drop everything and move to a foreign country for a year? i don’t really believe that i’m being called to that, but it definitely puts a lot of things into perspective. in my personal life and in my photography, what drives me?

 

i had the privilege of forcing my friends in front of my camera when they were out in my neck of the woods last and since a post just isn’t the same without photos, here they are. oh, and i suppose you deserve to see something after reading a lengthy ramble!

and because marc is crazy talented and had just performed at a little wine+cheese concert so he conveniently had a guitar and amp in the car, we took some more photos.

and then chars needed a turn. clearly a legit musician with fuzzy mittens on. only the cool kids play with mittens. (sorry marc)

Advertisement