I am so grateful for how often I get to pull out my camera for family portraits and events. In today’s world of digital photography though a necessity for all photographers is Photoshop. There are many complaints about the ‘loss of the art’ now that cameras are so mainstream and what you lack in skills can be compensated through your computer screen. A fact of life is that the world is changing and people want their pictures in under a week and they want all their pimples and wrinkles gone.
I think I am a rare case who learned photoshop before they learned a camera so I am always up for learning new things in this area. Tyler’s brother happens to very skilled in the area of graphic design which is where I am most lacking. I have always been afraid to download brushes from the internet but he showed how to do it and now I am so hooked. This website has so many brushes, patterns, and ideas. So far I mostly downloaded flowers and circles (I am such a girl) but they have “manly” looking stuff too.
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| Some of my circles and flowers 🙂 |
In the college group at Warren we are starting discipleship groups. I am going to start meeting with Jenni once a week and learning from her. We are reading “Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life” by Donald Whitney. I was convicted from just the first few pages. He described going to a culture and a church that that was marked with sin even in the churched leaders. They came to realize that the reason for the way the people were living was the fact that no one owned a Bible, there sermons came from stories that the leaders could vaguely remember. Whitney and other pulled together to get this church inexpensive Bibles so they could finally start immersing themselves in Scripture. This observation by Whitney is what struck me. “It’s one thing to be unfamiliar with Scripture when you don’t own a Bible; it’s another thing when you have a bookshelf full.”
These people had no Bible to pick up daily, learn, and grow from. What’s my excuse?
I am have been reminiscing on my trip to Chicago two years ago lately. It was a one of the coolest cities I have ever been to and catching up with Courtney in the place she now calls home was priceless.
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| “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most importantly laugh at yourself.” -Chelsea Handler |
I am going to see Elton John with the kid pictured above. I am so excited. Elton John was seriously my favorite artist since I was about six. I was so strange. I hope he plays this song.
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