more to go with the below post

spring has sprung

things are finally starting to bloom and the squirrels are having a hay day in the backyard (the one that we share with about 50 other people)

went to the zoo with jenica the other day

it was a really good time...especially because she got in free for working in a school!

had our 2nd concert tonight for the middle school group
this time around we had Abandon Kansas again, with new bands Progress In Color and PM Today

they are all definitely worth checking out on myspace

the weather has been beautiful lately

it has finally given me a chance to get out and take some shots
i feel like God has been placing photography on my heart more and more
i am just trying to figure out how He wants to use it in order to bring glory to Himself

we shall see

here are some more from last weekend

kids got to take turns driving the ducks, we boys got to be boys in the woods, and i got to take some fun pics

it's been awhile since posting but my schedule has been pretty crazy.

had my sister and her family in town over the past few days which made for a great time. we spent some time up in the mountains and then went to Stone Mountain.

it was great! there will be more pics to come from this weekend but here are a few for now.

more from the conference...
tried to give matt a halo

here are a few more from the weekend

we had the Student Life Tour come near here again this year so we took some high schoolers with us to check it out.

last year was incredible and this year was no different
there was incredible teaching by JR Vasser and David Platt as well as worship with SPUR58

i feel as though God has been laying on my heart these things: youth (as always), photography, overseas, and community. I don't know how all of these will play out as God continues to lead my wife and i, but we pray that God lays His desires on both of our hearts as we continue to seek Him

not too exciting but i wanted to take a picture of something

it's not the most crisp but i didn't want to steady my camera on the patio fence because of the rain

more from the famine

i haven't been feeling so great lately so i haven't really been shooting much

hopefully i will get back in to the routine soon...

here are some more from the famine...if you read below you can find out more

so generally we break the fast by having a huge meal only to be followed by throwing out pounds of food which we thought kind of defeated the purpose of the famine in the first place...

this year, we thought it would be a better idea to keep the theme going and so we broke the fast by having a soup kitchen.

yeah we were still hungry afterwards; however, it kept us more focused on what we had just learned as well as made us more thankful for what we have.

what a great weekend

Famine '08

this year's famine was great
we were able to raise over $23,000 to help feed the hungry while also focusing on the issue of homelessness in the states and going out to serve various locations in the Atlanta metro area

here are some of the pics from the weekend
the hallway with the post-its represent the 29,000 kids who die every single day - we were able to put up one post it for every person - it is pretty disheartening when you get a visual like this

so i realized after shooting these last night that i need to get a remote trigger....no matter how careful you are, you will still get just a bit of camera shake...especially when zooming in this far

i was happy to have my 75-300mm to get these but i still had to crop and zoom a bit to get in close

the one on top has those 2 bright spots... i guess the one to the bottom left is Saturn and the other is some bright star. it could be the other way around, but either way i thought it was kind of cool