Photography Catches the Light

So, life gets to me frequently...it is not done with me yet.  As a result photo posting will continue to be sporadic over the next few months but I am expecting that it will be more consistent around September.

I subscribed to the Photo Nuts and Bolts course available through Digital-Photography-School.com  As I was reviewing some of the modules this morning I realized something. 

Photography captures an image of the light that is reflected / refracted -- projected to us in some way.  I have felt that I need to use photography to testify of Christ.  There is a scripture that asks if I reflect the image of Christ by receiving Him.

We (I am) are created in the image of God.  Therefore, I should / could reflect to those around me His light that I have chosen to partake of.  The images that we see in this life are a reflection of deity.  As a people we can choose to see it and embrace it or not. 

I choose to embrace it...My day to day life and as a result my life over all is so much better and happier because of this choice.

Thought:
We are human beings with natural tendencies.  When something happens my initial reaction is a natural one.  However, I choose to continue with this thought / feeling and as a result embrace it -- consciously or unconsciously.  The question becomes what do I replace it with?  Granted, sometimes it is not so easy or obvious.  But, as with all things it becomes easier with practice.

(Example: anger.  Something happens.  In that instant I do not choose to be angry, it comes naturally.  However, I do choose to continue with the anger or to trade it in for a different attitude.  Insert whatever you struggle with.)

God has provided us with the help that we need to make it through each day.  I choose to seek this help and apply it to the best of my ability.  Grace through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Education is a slow but rewarding experience.

Week of: November 8, 2014

Began learning how to use the editing software that I received with my camera.  Hopefully, I will soon -- at least sooner than later -- learn how to make it look more like what I was seeing.

There are other trees with this one that have equally briliant colors.  What a calming influence nature has!  What a testimony that Father is watching out for us; providing beautiful things to enjoy and the means by which to provide the healing power that we are in need of.

Week of October 30, 2014.

I received my new Nikon D3300 camera and was experimenting with it.  This is the result after playing with it a short time in PhotoScape.

For the week of October 18, 2014, life happened.
For the week of October 25, 2014, technology happened -- it still is.

This picture is the original of what I had previously posted.

Newly planted pansie in the early afternoon sunshine.
Using PhotoScape using Birightness setting 13.  This is the only modification.

We recently had a very enjoyable guest who was absolutely enthralled with these trees. 

I am still working on how to use the photo editing software.  All things come with practice and patience...or is it patience and practice.  Either way, with time I will get there.