North Carolina photographer | Oak Island, Southport, Coastal NC
This is the first in the Assignments form Readers posts that I will be doing. Debbie had the idea of “Joy”. This picture reminds me of the joy Kathryn had when I recently taught her how to play chess. She was especially excited when she captured my queen, I was the black chess pieces and that is my queen sitting closest to the camera off the board. I better watch out or she will be teaching me how to win games before long.
Thank you Debbie for the idea. I have about five more assignments already some are more difficult than others, but I will get through them, so keep them coming.
Now is the time. Our Sunday school teacher, who is also an associate pastor at our church, asked us if we would be interest in going on the Botswana trip. At first we said maybe and kind of shrugged it off, but after Jamie and I prayed about it, we knew it was what God wanted us to do. This trip is to help married couples in Botswana. We will be assisting Denise and David Glenn with a “Freedom for Mothers/Freedom for Fathers” conference. And you know I will be taking photographs to document the trip.
In order to go we have to raise some money. Don’t worry I’m not going to hit you up for a donation, at least not yet. But if you just feel led to donate I’m not going to stop you either; there is even a nice little airplane at the bottom of the blog that you can click on to donate.
This post is more about a cool fund raising event that we are doing on June 5th 2009. We’re having a Dinner, Dancing and Auction for Missions. There will be a great pot luck dinner. After all what kind of Baptist Church would it be if we didn’t have a pot luck dinner ever now and then? There will be dance lessons, taught by Jamie and me (yes, just one of the many other things we have in our box of tricks). And there will be an auction of stuff and services from members of our Sunday school class. That is why it is called “the night of Dinner, Dancing and Auction for Mission” (we’re more creative with what we are auctioning than in coming up with a name for it). So if you are in the Atlanta area and would like to come just leave me a comment and I’ll get you more information.
I would like a little help from my blog readers out there. Call it class participation without the awkward looks from the others in class, maybe that was just me in school. I would like for you to give me photography assignment ideas to work on during the week and post them when completed. I will try to do at least one a week but that would depend on how tough y’all make it on me. It can be a simple as one word or as complex as a scene that you have in your head. Remember I have a budget, which is very low, so don’t go too elaborate on me.
To help with using more words part of blogging, I will try to write more about the photographs that are going to be posted here.