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Learning To Take Photographs…

– October 30, 2008Posted in: Technology

Hey Blog crew!

How’s your week going?

Well… I am getting into a new hobby…. learning how to take photos! I’m pretty stoked about it… so I’m in the process of getting a better camera and wanting to learn Photoshop too…fun times.

Here are a few pics I took in Canada using my cheap point and shoot. I’m trying to figure out what makes a good angle, and what makes good lighting…

As you can see I have LOTS to learn, but I thought I’d share a few pics of “before” I get the good camera and learn some editing tricks… then I’ll post some “after” shots in a week or two, and hopefully you’ll see some progress in my skills!

Thanks to Daley for not minding me snapping pics while he played this grand piano in Victoria BC, Canada… These shots remind me of what a fun tour we all had out there.

In half an hour I fly to Ohio to lead worship at a girl’s conference. I’m traveling all day – leaving San Diego at 10.40am and landing into OH at 8.30pm so I’ll have lots of time to read, pray and think. I love days like this – wide open for contemplation, soaring miles above the earth on a plane….

Anyway, back to photography, I think I’m excited about the concept of it because ‘a picture says more than a thousand words’ (or whatever that old saying is!) I see so many things during my travels, and I’d love to be able to document them. Especially when I travel to the third world and see a lot of challenging sights, like I have in Africa, Mexico and Peru… I wish I’d been able to snap them and keep them to show others.

So partly it feels like a fun new past-time, and partly it feels like a responsibility – that because I get to travel and get to see so much, I have a responsibility to learn how to capture those experiences and share them with others.

Here’s one more shot I took… trying to get a cool reflection…

Anyway, that’s enough from me rambling about my new photography hobby!

Anyone else got any interesting hobbies? I know there are other photographers out there…. Any bungee jumpers, or videographers or surfers or knitters??! Tell us about what you do to relax….

Love,

Vicky

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Photoshoot With Daley Hake!

– October 4, 2008Posted in: Technology

Hi guys!

Hope you’re having a great week. I spent a brilliant day today doing a photoshoot with Daley Hake. If you haven’t seen his pictures before, check out www.daleyhake.com.

Daley lives up near LA so he headed down to San Diego for the day, and we shot a bunch of photos down in super vibey area of SD called the “Gas Lamp District”. We shot in a parking lot, infront of a bunch of cool walls, in an elevator, overlooking the ocean… I’m amazed how Daley’s eyes can see exactly which light, background and camera lens is needed at which moment. I watched all day and learned a lot! I’m now watching him edit in Photoshop, and learning yet more!

Check out these shots…..

This was down by the San Diego harbor… it took a ton of tries to get one where my hair wasn’t crazy in the wind!

Me and Daley goofing around with our Zoolander ‘photoshoot faces’! I usually get nervous about pictures and feel really awkward..but he made me laugh and totally set me at ease!

So I’m feeling pretty inspired about photos and thinking of maybe getting a camera and learning a few things about taking shots of people… Any of you guys into cameras? Any advice on what I should get?

Vicky

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T. S. Eliot – a poet who rocks!

– September 23, 2008Posted in:

Hey friends,

I have a new author to tell you about….You know I love reading, so I thought I’d share a new discovery!

“Thomas Stearns Eliot” lived from 26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965. He was a poet, receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot did the opposite of me – he was born in the United States, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25). He said: “[My poetry] wouldn’t be what it is if I’d been born in England, and it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d stayed in America. It’s a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America.”

I like that he lived in both the countries that I’ve lived in, and that he found inspiration in both, as I have done. I think he and I would have had a lot to chat about over a cup of Earl Grey tea!

Anyways…  All credit for me discovering this new writer goes to Daley Hake, who shared some thoughts about Eliot’s poetry when he came to visit a few days ago. If you haven’t read Daley’s blog or seen his photography, click on his photo below and it will take you to his website…

Here are a few of the T.S.Eliot quotes I’ve found and am loving:

“All dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with roads and settled nowhere” (Hmmm..I know that feeling!)

“O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word”

“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Pretty deep stuff!!

So I encourage you to check out his works… I’m just scraping the surface as I’ve only read a couple of quotes on Wikipedia! But I’m about to dive into one of his poems called “The Rock” and really think about how his writings apply to the church of today. Here’s my favorite Eliot quote so far:

“The Church must be forever building,
For it is forever decaying within and attacked from without”

When I hear him say that the church must “be forever building” I think he means that we can never sit down and get into a rut as the Body of Christ. We must keep asking “are we truly living out the Gospel? And do we as ‘the Church’ look anything like Jesus intended and dreamed we would?”

How can we as a generation impact and build the Church increasingly into something that reflects Jesus and His heart? What would that look like?

How do we keep the Gospel true and pure, and yet make our expression and presentation of ‘church’ accessible and relevant to the culture of today?

Is our expression of church today something that pleases God’s heart, and something that embodies the Gospel? Or have we missed the boat?

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Love,

Vicky

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