"Life's about changin, nothin' ever stays the same..."

Well friends, two months worth of absence has certainly killed any momentum this little endeavor has gathered. Suffice it to say that life as I know it has been turned upside down and nothing seems to make sense all of the sudden. I am currently spending time with family far from my home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Though I miss the green and the coast and my home dearly this break has been necessary. I have been taking lots and lots of photos and hope to be able to get back to work on my photography business very soon but that work may not be able to include this blog, at least not for a bit. The things going on in my life right now compel me to be spending my time very differently and the story in my heart that I have to tell is no longer very consistent with the beautiful photography that I love to shoot and the stories that I love to tell with the use of my photographs is not at a very beautiful place. That fact in and of itself is not something I am ashamed of or trying to hide. Life is not always beautiful and many lives these days are sadly too full of the ugliness that our world is so full of. As I sit here writing this from the East I am surrounded by flooding and devastation. In my month or so here I have experienced my very first earthquake, the outskirts of a hurricane that devastated my coastal neighbors to the North and South and now extreme rain and flooding all around the area where I was born and raised. Life is in fact ugly. This is not new. However, no matter how common the story we must never forget that to the people, the families, and the lives affected the story is always brand new no matter how many times they hear it, it is always raw, it is always devastating and life changing. This is my upside down life. A story so common these days it's easy to think it's not worth telling, but to me it is new, it is raw, and it is personally devastating. Job loss; families divided; personal loss of family members, pets; divorce; addiction; financial insecurity; and tumultuous weather patterns -- you name it whatever your story it is no less devastating than another persons, it is simply different. My story falls into a few of those categories as so many other stories do and I can only hope that I will have brighter days and a brighter outlook in the future. Brighter days that will allow me to share images of hope and life as it does in fact go on. Photography is my passion this little endeavor has been a dream of mine for so long I cannot even tell you when it began anymore I can only tell you that I will not abandon it, I simply must, yet again, focus my efforts elsewhere - hopefully for only a short amount of time. Dreams die hard, this little dream of mine will not go quietly and I will be return to it one day when I have more life to breath into it again.