tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21577498914347510302011-09-24T12:05:28.902-07:00Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-37572627035141049062011-07-19T08:39:00.001-07:002011-07-19T12:14:38.602-07:00

It never fails that as I’m out and about at lunch, you’ll always see people sharing or selling something. The day I encountered this Greenpeace volunteer and an unknown gentleman, it was no exception. So I took this photo and continued on my way.Recently, after some G+ inspired reflection, I thought back to this encounter and a question arose in my mind: Why aren’t there as many church folk as

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Nature's DazzleIts been ages since I've blogged. Its not that I've abandoned my own blog or been to busy; honestly I think about this little ol' blog quite often and finally decided that today is the day! LOLSince I last posted a story (2/14/09), I passed oral and written examinations and have been ordained and installed as the Co-Pastor of our church. Its been an amazing six months or so, but

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-13312439229104654732009-02-14T22:12:00.000-08:002009-02-15T16:59:13.237-08:00

Reflections on Love and life on Valentines Day. This is a picture of our neighbors, Ron and Dorothy, opening gifts at their 50th Wedding Anniversary party almost 4 years ago. 50 years of marriage -- Wow, what an achievement!! In addition to that lifetime of love and labor, another thing that made this a special day was that the party was something the entire neighborhood shared in. The party

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Yesterday, the Kid turned 10. And what an interesting day it turned out to be!I had stayed up the night before, baking him a cake so he could take to the sitters. They were planning a Valentines party and were going to add the Kid’s birthday to the mix. The wife had also picked up some snacks for the sitter’s party, so when I dropped him off, the Kid was all set. Moreover, knowing birthdays

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Generally, I go out shooting on Thursdays, but I went out today because it will probably be raining tomorrow. Since, I left for lunch late, most people had already left the street faire to go back to work, so this was going to be a quick shoot indeed. I wasn't out long, but before I left, I was able to catch this shot of a woman walking three dogs; and let me tell you, it wasn't that easy. On

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Church was great today! The title of the sermon, stated above, was right on point. The speaker was our supervising pastor, Cor Pool from Hope Community Church in Riverside, California. When our church was in the middle of crisis and turmoil, Cor and his church were appointed to work with us to rebuild the church, which has been a great blessing to our little church indeed. Now at a glance,

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You know, this past week United Teachers Los Angeles ("UTLA") held a protest Rally against the Governor and the School District to sound off against proposed classroom cuts that will happen at the end of the current school year. My photo pal, Jemal, and I were at Pershing Square for lunch doing the photoshoot thing when we encountered members of UTLA setting up for the evening's rally. As such

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-37574952896074904802009-01-30T03:47:00.000-08:002009-01-30T04:39:25.863-08:00

Well, its 2:17 p.m. and time to get back to work... You know, at the heart of photography is the desire to capture a moment in time for eternity because once the moment is gone, you can't bring it back. Indeed, there is one thing sure in this life - Time waits for no one. Thus, in order to get the most out of life, its it essential to make the best use of the time you have. As scripture

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-61195389308717100262009-01-28T10:45:00.000-08:002009-01-28T21:45:49.420-08:00

You know, there are many different disciplines in photography; Sports, Portrait, Nature, Street and many, many others. I’m trying to tackle a few of them, but right now, my primary interest is in Macro Photography. A simple definition of Macro Photography is “Close-up Photography”. In other words, the goal in Macro Photography is to take something rather small or normally unnoticeable and make

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-11148748564725439122009-01-26T11:46:00.000-08:002009-01-26T18:32:38.056-08:00

Its amazing how the Bible speaks to us wherever we may be in our lives.Some time ago, I was searching diligently for my first Digital Camera, an Olympus 765 UZ. It was a good little camera and it got me started in Digital photography and after coming home from one of our vacations, I was looking for it and it disappeared. I had looked off and on for a good while and to no avail it never turned

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-68343667681189382962009-01-25T05:47:00.001-08:002009-02-12T04:36:16.338-08:00

On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, the United States swore in a new president. What was historic about this inauguration was that Barack Hussein Obama was a person of color; the child of a Caucasian mother from Kansas and a Kenyan father, was born in Hawaii. For the first time in the history of the country, the President of the United States was not a white male. Truly historic and it brought

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Today is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Dr. King was one of the pillars and champions of the Civil Rights Movement. It was his leadership, courage and ultimate sacrifice that made many of the civil rights gains in our present age possible; especially and including the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Because of the MLK holiday, the wife and I were both

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-61109774347712069802009-01-18T20:51:00.000-08:002009-01-18T21:17:49.019-08:00

You know, there's an old saying that most of us has heard before "What's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander", and the meaning amounts to "what's fair for one should be fair for the other". If you look at the picture, most of the kids on the field trip are enjoying their lunch and the ducks and geese hoping to get a morsel or two of food. Yet there is one child (on the far right

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-2172019675238615262009-01-18T17:58:00.000-08:002009-01-19T07:54:19.290-08:00

As I mentioned a few days ago, for my Birthday I got a new camera. It started out as a search for a supplement to my Nikon D40 (which I love) and it ended up being an Olympus 510 (which may in fact replace the Nikon as my primary camera).I already knew that that the Nikon was superior in low light/no flash situations (from my initial research on the Olympus), but I did not get the chance to take

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-50986694152736804702009-01-14T22:16:00.000-08:002009-01-15T12:30:33.541-08:00

I'm a big guy. I wasn't always this big, but unfortunately, I've been a big guy for too long.For the past few years I say I'm going to take on the Battle of the Bulge, and this year is not any different. In times past, I've exercised consistently, but ate poorly, or I ate healthily, but was lax on my exercising. This year, I'm not going to set any ambitious goal in regards to the battle, but to

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-86924350095096646922009-01-12T04:49:00.000-08:002009-01-18T18:58:42.208-08:00

Have you ever had to wait for something you really wanted? Like that song says, the anticipation can drive you crazy! My birthday is coming up and I’ve been researching for another camera. There’s nothing wrong with the camera I have, but wanted/needed a back-up camera (or a better camera and make the Nikon the backup).When I started seriously thinking about this, I was looking at the higher-end

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-53598694937500143622009-01-11T07:11:00.000-08:002009-01-12T22:19:05.596-08:00

I preach the 2nd and 4th Sundays at our church. Today is my Sunday and the Title of the Message is "A Ripple of Hope". The theme comes from the famous RFK Quote:"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation... It is from numberless diverse acts of

Normhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13079875803120888222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157749891434751030.post-26844449779762570952009-01-10T11:50:00.000-08:002009-01-26T05:18:46.525-08:00

After watching the wife become lost in blogging from time to time, I thought I'd try my hand at this craft and see where it leads...Generally Saturday is spent as a Sabbath, a day of rest. Which means we don't do much, but try to regroup from the business of the week, do a few things around the house and rest.Today was not too much different, only that I went through some older pics on my

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