Luxuries

A thought hit me the other day as I was getting a drink of water from the sink:

"How many people can't get clean water to drink when they want it?"

I've been thinking about that ever since - along with things like "I wonder how many people have no food right now as I order this pizza at Carraba's," and "It's hot outside - glad we have air conditioning. I wonder what it's like to never have air conditioning."


It just seems that there are quite a few things which I take for granted as being typical and expected, which are really luxuries for most of the world that the U.S. has been able to turn into daily staples. It's just weird thinking about it that way. I say - I use my camera and my tools to make a living, and for most of the world, I have an easy job that is beyond a person's wildest dreams. Getting paid to take photographs or work on airplanes? Reasonable hours and good wages? I am not working in a sweatshop, or a brothel, or begging on the street. I eat and drink good food and clean water whenever I personally feel hungry or thirsty. I worry about going up a waist size in my pants, because then I'll have to buy new clothes.

I've been praying that God will give me compassion for people and it's starting to happen.

Calm monday early morning

Two weeks ago, Stephanie and I took some stunning photographs of a bride who hired us for her engagement, wedding & bridal portrait photography... Not only was the location spectacular, the bride was jaw-dropping gorgeous! We used some carefully placed, off-camera flash and reflectors to capture the beautiful and classy photographs of Grace. As should be true for most professional photographers, our photographs required only minimal editing, and most of what you see is almost exactly what it looked like straight out of the camera.

 

We had a great time working with Grace and are very happy to see her and Mark married! They had a short but very meaningful ceremony and a party of a reception! It was good seeing them actually celebrating with friends instead of standing around shaking hands and posing for official photographs. I hope they had as great of a time as we did! Our feet got a little sore but other than that it was quite a lot of fun... Looking forward to finishing the photographs and letting them see how fun their wedding looked!!