another cold saturday

Its Saturday and I am sitting in my office trying to get our new printer figured out but its not going so well! so I am watching a little college basketball instead of throwing the whole thing out the window because its so frustrating!

also I am so ready for the cold to be gone and the warm spring weather to come! I hope its comes soon because I am getting really tired of the cold and snow!

I hope to also start doing some more photo shoots as spring approaches ... so keep a watch out for that!
hope ya'll have a good weekend!

Traveling Home for the Holidays

Today I get to hop on an airplane and fly the snowy skies ... actually today the weather is not supposed to be an issue which I am very thankful for! I really do not want to be stranded in Detroit for any extended period of time! so yeah I fly out of Scranton this afternoon and land in Des Moines sometime this evening.

I am excited to be going back home to Iowa for the Holidays, Its been 7 months since I have been there and it will be good to see all of my friends and family!

I look forward to catching up with all of you ... so if you want to hang out while I am home then just give me a call or send and email.

Thanks to all of you who have supported and prayed for me through all of my transitions...

Also I just wanted to say how thankful I am for Jesus Christ our Savior for He is the real and only reason for Christmas and may you show His love and compassion to the lost and needed this Holiday season! for it is better to give!

God Bless and Merry Christmas!

ahhhh its Saturday

so its the first Saturday in December 2008 ... yep I am just chillin literally in the factorytown office ... its been fun reconnecting with friends from my days at Cville ... mainly cause I posted some great pics from back in the day on FB ...
I know I have not done a very good job of keeping this thing up to date! but I have not really done anything exciting lately! If we would get some snow or something I could go do a snow shoot or something but alas no snow here ... and well I am just not inspired right now anyway! I really would like to go to NYC soon and see all the sparkly lights ... so if any one wants to go with ... just give me a shout!

well only like 16 more days eh an I will be back in great ol' Iowa for the holidays! I am looking forward to that ... should be a good time!

wish I had some great news to report on ... but nothing much at this time! maybe something will happen sometime soon!?!?! who knows ... I guess I would have to go out on the town or something like that to make something crazy happen! :)

well peace out for now ... hope you all had a very Thankful and God honoring Thanksgiving and I look forward to the awesomeness of Christmas coming soon!

camp days

So this past week I spent at Scioto Hills Camp and Conference center in Ohio! I attended the NARBCamp conference! It was great to meet up with friends from Iowa and to make some new friends from other camps across the country!
Scioto Hills is beautiful in the fall ... actually I am sure it also is other times of the year, but especially in the fall it is quite beautiful ... ohhh of course it helped that we had amazing days of sunshine and great speaking and refreshment from God!


"group photo" if you weren't there and you can find me in it ... I will do something special for you! :)

Thanks to the staff of Scioto Hills for making it a great conference! for opening up your avalanch of a zip line and for letting me jump off the Xscream pole ... so you ask what is an Xscream pole ... well just imagine climp the tallest telephone pole in your neighbor hood and then some how getting yourself to stand on top of it and then jump off in to mid air trying to grab a trapeze handle dangling about seven feet out in front of you! yeah I missed the swinging handle! but once I got on top of the pole it was a pretty sweet jump! :)

here is a picture of the zip line tower ... I dont have one of the Xscream


Yep that is part of what I get to do for my job! try Camps high ropes course stuff out! :) pretty sweet job eh?!

FALL

I first want to say sorry for not writing something on here in over a month! I will try and do better!
I have only been on a couple of pretty cool photo shoots in that time frame ... so here are a couple of shots from one of them! ... enjoy

my mom and sister came out to visit and then we met up with family friends at Elk Mtn. what a beautiful fall day!!


lone leaf


Beautiful Fall color

First Friday ... Octoberfest Scranton

Here are a few pics from my first "First Friday" its and artist and art gallery walk around downtown Scranton ... they holdit the first Friday of every summer month ... it was pretty cool ...



"a couple in Afa Gallery planning there next stop"



"City scape from the Outrageous Center Street Cafe patio"



"Dionysis wine and jazz club"



"Electric City"

Steamtown in Black & White

So last Thursday I had the day off so I took advantage of a hazy day and took out with my camera to capture some of the sights of the Electric City!


"ECity parking garage"

It was a pretty entertaining at times and would of been fun with a friend but I made the most of my experience wandering the coal dusty streets of Scranton!


"just on a stroll"


"friends or lovers"


"Smoke break"

these are just a few of the shots, but please check out the rest of them in the photo section! Thanks for stopping by to check up on my life here in Pennsylvania!



"Don't forget to order off the menu!" ... yes if you like anything in my collection I will be glad to make a print available to you! for a small charge! please no stealing!


"Train stop"

Thanks and enjoy

September WILD 2008

Hello to all my friends out there!

I just returned home from my fourth and final trip to Canada for the summer!
I am extremely glad that it is done and over with!
not to say that I did not have a good final trip ... because well it was once again an amazing week! God does some very cool things when you are up in the woods and most of what you have to do for the week is talk to Him!

I have upload the pictures from the week to the photo section so go there and check them out!

here is a pic of our group! what and awesome group of men and Scott's wife was an amazing fit to our group! Thanks for coming!