My passions in life are many, but one thing that really captures my heart is photography. In preparation for my trip to India and Nepal, I bought a Nikon d40x. Nikon's cheapest Digital SLR camera. Cheap though it is, it takes extremely good shots, and the 18-135mm lens I got with it is very versatile. So already I have been putting it to use. I am slowly building a stock library which should produce some long term, small, but residual, income. The direction I am heading in though is photo-journalism. I have received much encouragement to pursue this. I am thinking along these kind of lines...

The short: If I could document care-work around the world, it would draw more people to get out of their 1st world comforts and go help those less fortunate.
The long: Initially I will need to pay my own way. The hope would be that care agencies would see the value in my work and employ me to travel to their missions, help out myself (I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty), train people in how to document what they are doing digitally and inexpensively so they have something they can do themselves, in other words, do myself out of a job (there's more than enough care-work around to last a lifetime of documenting), bring back to the west exciting footage both still photos and in High Definition Video of what it's like, and the needs that exist. Now that's one long run-on sentence. You get the idea?

So please pray for me in this won't you. God has given me skills that could really be used to benefit a lot of people, and that's exactly why I believe He gave them to me.

The sun setting behind our prayer chapel. Enjoy...

Click the photo to go through to the much larger version of it for your desktop.

It was a regular feature on my website many moons ago, and thanks to much encouragement from my friends, I have decided it's time to do more with photography. I am a good photographer. Not trying to boast, I'm just good at it. So I am going to start adding photos here to my blog, and a place where you can download them in hi-quality for free. They are still copyrighted, so you may not use them for any purpose other than as wallpaper on your computer. Some I will write a scripture verse on, others will be just left to speak for themselves. I hope you will enjoy them. If you want to use them for any other purpose, just ask.

Oh, and if you want to bless me with a good digital SLR, don't let me stop you :) Right now all I have is a little point and shoot that has no manual control at all :(



So here is the first photo. I took this just this morning. This is on our base here at YWAM. The light was just perfect. Click here to download a hi-quality version for your desktop picture/wallpaper. Mac or PC.

Enjoy. And send me your thoughts too.