Christmas

Remember Jesus. People can ask a lot of you in the Christmas season. Remember Jesus. Atop the header of the New York Times read, “Today is Christmas! Remember the Neediest!”.

1 Truth

When you speak the words of Jesus it is because he is alive. I have never seen more clearly. I understand where I have been saved from. I know I am in and I want to be going where there is life and life in abundance. Detroit doesn’t need the auto industry to save us. Detroiters need God and with God the city will be saved.

I want to hold a gathering in the park across the street from Tigers Stadium.

I am not ready for this and do not have the words to say. Victory is not for the taking but for the sharing, the encouraging, the loving and the humble.

Reason 22 to Move to Detroit: Good Photograhy

Some arsons put this stack to blaze at the old Packard plant

Trying to show affects of Scrappers, bridge fell down a week ago. Dangerous? Yes. And yes those are eskimo slippers. Cruising in comfort.

Photos of me by Brian Kaufman

Great Times Photographing

Detroit Sunset from my house, see there is a reason to move here.

Praise God. I really just have been having a great time working for the NY Times. Over the past week I have been blessed with 3 assignments and yesterday was asked to do 3 out of 4 parts for a portrait series for the Times. On Monday I spent 3.5 minutes with the CEO of Ford photographing him AND interviewing him on camera for USA Today. God has been so awesome. Not just because he has blessed me with these jobs, but because he remains faithful and true to his word. If you don’t know God, a let me tell you who he is..He is the forgiving, the faithful, the truth, the light, the creator, the provider, the hope, the ever present, the never failing and I could on (in my preacher voice). For real though, I have been freelance for just over a year and the jobs keep coming. Not because of the skills I have or the effort I put in, but because the Lord has called me to a place that he wants me to be and the result are jobs coming in. I give him the Glory. I received a call today for a job in Chicago, Detroit, St Paul and Milwaukee for a documentary series for a non-profit group. Now I know the lord will provide for he has called me away from my comfortable job a year ago, a job that was awesome, a job that I miss a lot because of the people. But He called me into this unknown land that is freelance and has provided ever since. Praise God. I really want you all reading this far to know that whether or not you put the name of “God” on God, or if you think that there is a power out there that you tap into or if you think everything was created to work in harmony or whatever, know this; that all of that came together and created a baby boy which a young mother named Jesus. The amazing thing about Jesus, besides the fact that so many people use his name and deny he exists, is that he came as a baby. Now Mary, his mother, had to take care of Jesus (God in a bod as some people would say). God in the flesh as a helpless baby. I believe that is how believers are supposed to act towards everyone in this world. As a servant out to better others, to nurture others, to care for others and feed them. To bring them up through adolescence and then into maturity.

Thank you to all my friends praying for the shoot tonight. I think I nailed it.

Media areas get a little tight on big events like Obama in Grant Park.

Closer than Ringside

Steps backward in flesh are steps forward in spirit. so when your back is finally against life’s ropes, know that you are facing everything with the unlimited power of God the instant you reach for him. When we serve God at our best we often confuse that as He and I strength but when we serve God at our worst it can only be seen as He Strength. Whether at our best or worst, let us remember at the second situations switch for better or worse, richer or poorer, in good health and sick, that in God is where we need to be.

Ezek 1-3, 2 Corinthians 11

to my friends

My first photo in the NY Times ever!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/business/03jets.html?_r=1&ref=business

Although not really an exciting photograph it was important for the paper and they loved it! It was awesome shooting for the New York Times and searching for this building with my driver, Senior Andrew Jump della Hamtramck.  Pray for my shoot Thursday morning.

Me Teaching Photography in Vietnam

This was a Canon sponsored workshop (www.IMMF.org) I taught at with journalists from around the world including Earle Bridger, Nick Ut, David Guttenfelder and Tim Page in Hanoi, Vietnam. It was for professionals who were Vietnamese. I’m at 210 and again at the end. Movie by Aaron Burton