I love photographs and the special memories that are stored deep within the images. I am so grateful that I have generously held the shutter down during the holidays, capturing moments both silly and solemn. I love candids the best, creating images that bring back...
There are so many layers to this story that I don't really know where to begin. Elements of the story here today, Princy's baby shower, really started over a year ago when I first befriended Princy's husband Binu. What started with my asking Binu for...
If there is anything that I have learned over the last couple of years, it is that healing is found through relationships. The relationship with God our father is our first and foremost source of strength and healing and through that relationship we can bring...
Congratulations to Jose and Isabelle on the expansion of their beautiful family through the adoption of Anna, Nathan, and Angel! Some moments are so deeply moving, so full of love, that you simply want to linger in them, letting your heart, mind, and memories align with...
When Alfredo Salazar and his wife Irene learned that God had blessed them with a third child, they had no idea the length and breadth of the blessing. When Michael was only seven months old the doctor informed Alfredo and Irene that their child had downs syndrome. Through...
6am in Santiago, Guatemala, along the banks of one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, lake Antitlan, the Mayans are hard at work. The group of ladies that I photographed today laughed and washed their families clothes together much the same as their...
As I close the lid on my suitcase today, ready to depart to Guatemala, it's hard to believe that it has been only a year ago that I traveled there for the first time. While the time since has been brief, my encounter with God...
My good friend Ashley Otani, graphic artist and so much more for CAFO (Christian Alliance for Orphans), came through Texas on her CAFO Coast to Coast tour and asked me to photograph an Orphan Sunday event at Journey Church. After Ashley accepted mine and Carol’s invitation...
[caption id="attachment_7183" align="alignnone" width="660"] With Karmen Friesen and Ruslan Maliuta[/caption] When I started planning to visit Carissa in Switzerland where she is studying abroad this year, I was a little apprehensive about going on a trip without orphan related work being involved. All of my recent...
Monday morning 6:47am - Switzerland Watching the scenic blur of the Switzerland countryside go by from a train bound for Zurich, I find myself heading to meet my friend Ruslan Mutland to do interviews for World Without Orphans. My time in Paris with Carissa now seems like a...
