I reconnected with an old friend a few weeks ago on Facebook (one of the wonderful things about social media). She happened to mention her son, Steven, was getting ready to graduate this year and was wanting some senior portraits taken. It seemed so strange to me that he could be ready to graduate already since I think he was about 12 or 13 the last time I had seen him. I was really looking forward to it, though, and was so excited that she asked me to do it. We had a great time… we took him out to the Arts Colony in Pomona and made him stand in a lot of seedy alleyways (not really, but it does make for a better story). Steven was very very patient with us as we drug him from one place to another. It was great to see what a terrific young man he has become, and a very talented musician as well.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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