Empty again in wise poverty.  Ripeness:  Sap ready to rise; on signal, buds alert to burst; to leaf

Eugene Peterson

Can you see the smallest of buds as it emerges from the dead of winter?  Strain your eyes to see; for it is in the straining that you will be given your eyesight back…sight to see the beauty which has been all around you, yet unseen, for you were too busy to take notice.

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it!”

Set the bar in your life HIGH…go for it!  You were given a gift, now use it for God’s glory!

“Never let visual apathy set in.”

“Sprezzatura”  spoken by the Renaissance author – Baldassare Gastiglione

The very word sums up how I feel when I am in my element of photography….”Sprezzatura” = maintaining GRACE under PRESSURE = “Effortless”

When I look through the lens of my camera and press the shutter, I know that I have either gotten the shot off or not.  In my mind and in my heart I know that what has just happened is magnificent beyond words…a moment in time frozen…and that it was birthed as I “maintained grace under pressure.”