It has been a very busy couple of days and I’ve taken a lot of photos. It’s going to take me awhile to go through all of them, but I wanted to post a couple tonight of senior portraits I took. I think they turned out great. It helped to have a beautiful model!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles,” 1992

I took a lot of photos tonight of my niece who graduated high school this week, but didn’t have a chance to go through them yet. I did, however, want to post a shot taken with my new camera so here you go…

Today didn’t feel like it was going to be a very good day. Spent hours sitting here waiting for UPS to get here after spending all of yesterday doing the same thing. Around dinner time, though, I checked Twitter and saw something from Curt Smith… they ended up putting a bunch of my photos on his site (Jeffery Saddoris helped with the processing). You can check them all out here: Curt Smith.

Then… finally… at about 7pm… UPS finally showed up with this beauty:

Thanks to Scott Bourne for the great deal! I will be spending the next few days studying the manual and the first new lens comes tomorrow…