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Boy have I been extremely MIA from xanga.  I almost feel foreign to this place and I am sorry I haven’t been able to keep up with everyone lately.  I have been pretty busy with many external things in life.  Still got my 8-5 job of course and been making efforts on the business end of things to build my photography business and have just not been around much to post.  It’s definitely been great so far but still a struggle here and there.  I am very excited about this up and coming year and I’ll definitely be back rolling away at what I love and do best.  Wedding season is just about here and so is my first wedding for 2008 this March.  Senior portaits are this weekend and so forth.  I have been want more and more to expand my creativity with other venues of photography but just haven’t had the time.  I have some cool news too.  Opening a small studio/office in Davis so I am thrilled about that.  I will talk more about that later and Ill post photos some other time to show you how it looks before and after. =)  This is a very exciting time for me but at the same time I am very blessed to have been hooked up with a nice place at a excellent excellent price.  Anyways, I’ll be on 5th street =)  I am setting new goals for myself and making sure I blog is one of them.  Its probably one of the most enjoyable things I do but sadly I can’t always get around to working on one.  But I promise to be more consistent.  Thank for always supporting me everyone.  2008 is rockin, the weather is getting warmer and the daylight is hanging around longer.  My kind of days! =)  Pardon my composition for landscape photography haha.

So I spend the weekend at what I would call the ultimate house for a bride to get ready in before her wedding day.  I visited some family in Nevada City  a few weekends ago and to my amazment there were like 80 something odd windows in the house and seeing the light shine through them is truly amazing.  The real task would be cleaning these puppies.  To put the house into perspective, think of it as one of those doll houses kids used to play with from the 50s.  Where there are like 3 floors, thats right three floors and I slept on the third floor.  The most amazing thing about the house aside from the windows in the specially and structurally engineered staircase to the 2nd and 3rd floor.  Simply a unique and creative construction and to me challenges some house physics and dynamics since it seems like the stairs just float to the top of the house.  I had such a wonderful time with family and I am truly blessed by each of them.  If you follow my blog regularly you’ll know I always share a lot of about my family.  I love them so very much and its great to know I have so much support.  Extremely blessed to have you all in my life. 

WHO LOVES 80s MUSIC?  I DO =)

Thanks For Reading.

Cheers,
Steve

Currently listening to…

Hey Future Brides!!!!!!!

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Here is the honeymoon registry information.

Steps for Honeymoon Registry:
STEP 1: visit www.tourtothemax.com
STEP 2: click on the Extras tab
STEP 3: click on the Honeymoon Registries box
STEP 4: sign up at the bottom of the page and register to where your honeymoon location is
STEP 5: select what you would like to register for your honeymoon (spa treatment, dinner for two, tour, shows, etc)
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STEP 7: Sit, Back, Relax, and let tourtothemax take care of your honeymoon needs!!!

FOR SALE:
Canon 30D
Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
PM me for price

Anyone have any experience with the Tamaron 14mm wide angle.  I am thinking about this lens for sometime now and just don’t think the Canon 14mm lens is worth 2k.  Let me know your thoughts

DKC Youth Group Winter Retreat 2008
Backwards & Forward

Meet the worship team better known as “Evergreen”
This group of artist all have an amazing talent but above all their gifts they do it all to glorify God and bless others. 

Music, laughter and good company are a few things at their very core that help us move forward through this journey we call life.  Through the motions of life we find many times our lives just seem to be going backwards and at moments we move forward.  May time when we feel like we are moving backwards we begin to dwell on our problems, failures and struggles.  It’s natural for a human being to do so and moving forward just doesn’t seem to be happening.  Most of us fear failure and often time once we experience that pain through failure we hardly want to face it.  There are some days where we feel like we just want to throw in the towel and call it quits.  However, I am here to encourage you today embrace your failures and move forward.  The greatest thing about the Christian faith is that we always have something to look forward to.  Our life doesn’t end here at earth.  I remember Gandof from Lord of the rings said that “death is merely a path one must take to the place greater than this place.”  (don’t quote me 100% on that one hehe). 

Most of the world views failure as always being negative.  And in some sense it really does seem that way at the moment and few of us rarely ask ourselves what is the purpose in all this.  For the first session at the retreat we took a look at Joseph’s life.  (Genesis 45:3-8).  The amazing thing about Joseph was he was able to see God’s divine plan beyond what his brothers had done to him in the past.  I found that to be the most profound thing about Joseph’s character.  I’d go into the story of Joseph here but this post would be longer than you probably want it to be haha.  To summarize…we learned 5 solid reasons God allows suffering.

1. Develop Character
2. Discipline for sin to produce a life of righteousness
3. Prepare us to comfort others who go through suffering
4. Provide opportunity to advance the gospel
5. To follow Christ’s example and to show others His glory. 

These are so inspiring and they help me move forward to the Lord’s greater purpose in life for us.  Be refined by your experiences, Trust in God and NOT what the world wagers.  When you fail…listen to God’s truth.  Set your eyes on the Cross and instead of focusing on your failure; focus on God’s Grace, Love and Mercy.  May your week be abundantly blessed. 

Thanks For Reading – Steve

Here is a quick slide show I put together for them.  Enjoy! 

MLK Weekend = Good Times