This week’s Motivation picture takes me back to when I was a child and would lay on the ground and look up at the stars. I had the chance again this past weekend to lay on my back on a dock by a lake in North Carolina. It was a beautiful night for star gazing, of course I had to grab the camera and make a photograph.

Awesome view!

This week’s motivation comes our Sunday morning worship service.

It’s amazing, feeling the Holy Spirit surround you in the middle of praising the one and only God. Thank you Lord for loving each and everyone of us enough to send your Son to die for our sins.

This weeks photograph is from a recent New Year’s Eve wedding.

They are an amazing couple and the getaway car was the popular Ramblin’ Wreck, which was very fitting because they meet at Georgia Tech’s orientation. More photographs from the wedding are on the Worley Arts site.

I get motivation from a photograph like this one, because it shows how fun the wedding day was and it incorporated how the couple met.

This is a special Motivation Monday sorry it is a little late, but we don’t get to play in the snow very often here.

Today is also my oldest daughter’s 16th birthday. I think five inches of snow in GA is a awesome present for her.

I love my iPhone, the freedom of being able to make a photo while playing in the snow without the worry of where to put my camera while we sled.

What we do when it’s raining outside and we don’t feel like getting wet to make a photograph? That’s when we transform our living room into a photography studio.

With a little inspiration from a few 1940’s images, we decided to play with lighting to achieve the same glamorous style from that time period.

1940’s photographs use at least three lights; a main light, a fill light and a hair light. We only used two lights; a hot-shoe flash with a 40 degree grid as the main light and an unmodified hot-shoe as a rim light. This is how the images came out.

There is some what of an advantage when it comes to making a great portrait in our house. I have a beautiful wife that is willing to redo her hair and makeup to be the model for some of the  little lighting projects we want to do.