Day 28: Lights on a Path

Psalm 119:105 (The Message)
"By your words I can see where I'm going; they throw a beam of light on my dark path."

Day 27: A Weed Stands Out

Day 26: Statement

Day 25: A Split-Second of a Water's Dance

I can't decide what's more amazing: the amazingly beautiful physics of water or the fact that I can actually capture such things with modern camera technology.

Day 24: Colored Dots

It's amazing how such small colored dots, when put together, can make up a grand picture. It makes me wonder if God himself made His creation in this way. Like Georges Seurat used many dots of paint to create his masterpice "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," perhaps God has made us look so different so we can be the 6.7 billion multi-colored dots scattered about upon his canvas making a grand picture as viewed from above.

Day 23: Abstraction

Look at the world like no one else does. Only when you do this will you be an individual.

Day 22: Desk Mess

When I get so worked up by studying for tests, by worring about some big event comming up, or when I just get lazy, I let my dorm get messy.
yeah...
I really don't know where I'm going with this...
I guess I should clean up now...

Day 21: Candles of Ash Wendesday

"Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell." - Psalm 43:3

Day 20: Stapled

I feel as if part of me has been stapled to this world, stapled by Sin. The Holy Spirit inside me continually tries to counter this and set this part of me free, blowing me away from the evils of this world. And I know Christ has taken upon himself my burden of sin; I realize and accept that. But part of me still is grounded by that continual never-ending bombardment of temptations. So I remain here, stapled, waiting for that day when God will take away that staple and fully set me free.

Day 19: Created by God, Not by Man

God's beauty alway's trumps man's. Despite the "ugliness" of constuction on this TCU campus, God always blesses us with a beautiful sunset. I love when God spoils us with his wonderous pigments in a sunset. It's like the crowning moment of the day's beauty. It's times like this that make me glad our God is an artist, an artist who paints the skies with the most Heavenly of colors.

Day 18: Cactus

Sometimes...to get to the heart of faith...you need to fight your way through thorns of doubt. God knows I'm doing that right now.

Day 17: What's "real?"

Sometimes I don't even know what's real anymore. Is it the modern world? Is it nature? Is it Christianity? Can they all be real?

Day 16: Burning Bushes

I know I don't normally post more than one photo, BUT TODAY'S THE EXCEPTION!

Usually, I'm drawn to make my "artistic" photos devoid of color. I feel that this causes the viewer to take a closer look at the light, shadow, form, texture, and other things like that. But today, I felt inclined to focus on color, for I walked out of my dorm and these bushes burning with an intense red color caught my eye. I love how God chooses one time of the year to change the pigment of the leaves; were it not for this, we would not appreciate it as much as we do. It's something to look forward to in the early fall (or "winter" for us Texas folk).
Color. It's such a beautiful thing.
...but especially the color red.

Day 15: Paper Clips

Sometimes I feel like my life is falling apart. Sometimes I feel like nothing is holding me together. But every time I just about lose it, there's God to tell me every thing's alright. He holds me together by reminding me: "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" He's so right. Why worry about things of this earth? What's the use? All worrying gets me is a big mess! God, You hold me together. You are my life's paper clip.

Day 14: One of My Loves

I haven't really been up for journaling, but I'm gonna start making an effort to do so from now on. So...here it goes.

For me, photography is sort of a visual prayer. God gives me the beauty of His creation and has granted me the ability to notice Him on a daily basis, even in the mundane. I look around and thank God for being such a great artist; His brushstokes are infinitely more beautiful than those of Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, and even DaVinci. I praise God daily for this - through my photographs. But God isn't the only artist here. He grants me the freedom to express myself, too, through deciding what to photograph and what to edit! I don't view this as "tainting His creation" but rather as an encouragement for others to observe God's creation in a way they never have. In short: Witnessing God's beautiful creation daily and thanking Him for it through photography is for me a prayer without words. The releasing of the shutter is my "amen."

Day 13: Drivin' Downtown

Day 12: Water Tension Displayed on a Quarter

Day 11: Power Button

Day 10: Movement

Day 9: iCan't.Live.Without.It

Day 8: Plugged In

Day 7: Afternoon Nap

Day 6: Psychedelic Bushes

Day 5: A Knot in the Fabric

Day 4: Trash

Day 3: Nature's Silhouette

Day 2: A Modern Daguerreotype

Day 1: Shelter From the Snow