89/365 Spring Sing Saturday Night via iPhone

3-30-2013

87/365 My kid is in Spring Sing

3-28-2013

Jenna had a ball doing Spring Sing.  I can't believe that I really am old enough to have a kid in college. I am so proud of her and so thankful for all of her friends.  It's Great to be at Harding.

32/365 My daughter, my model

Today I parked in front of the education building which is a north facing building.  The sun never shines on a north facing building and the closest it comes is in the middle of the summer.  So the light was cutting across the sidewalk with a nice 3/4 from behind light leaving a nice dark background.

Luckily, Jenna saw me as I pulled up in the parking lot and we talked for a few minutes about class and Spring Sing and other things and then she was gracious enough to become my model for my photo of the day. Also, notice the steam coming out of her mouth due to the fact that it was 19 degrees this morning.

I love having her on campus and knowing her friends, but on the other hand it makes me feel really old to have a kid in college.

So a big thanks to Jenna and her friend Morgan for being my models today.

Bloomings

The Harding campus is beautiful. These Redbud trees and the Daffodils are my absolute favorites this time of year. The Dogwoods and Azaleas are almost perfect as well, of course it is Spring Sing weekend.

Me Working

Here is a photo I received from my friend Doug Force. I grew up going to the same church as Doug and his family. I knew his dad as Mr. Freeman and his mom as Mrs. Joy. Doug's sister Robin was our babysitter when I was in 4th or 5th grade. Robin was great she would always do fun things and we usually could convince her to bake cookies. I vividly remember helping Mr. Freeman test the lighting as he was going to shoot all the photos for our self published church directory. My memory of Doug was that he worked in the recording room at church recording all the sermons. A cool dark room with lots of glowing dials and monitors. Well, Doug took this photo of me while I was photographing Spring Sing on Saturday night before Easter. Well I took the metadata from his photo and looked at my photos and the photo below is the photo that I was taking when Doug snapped me. My photo is of Jillian Shackelford the first 4 time Spring Sing Hostess hugging Dottie Frye the Director of the SS Hosts and Hostesses. It is always sort of strange to see yourself working but it is cool to see what you were working on. So thank you Doug for a great photo of a hard working university photographer. One more Force Family memory. Mrs. Joy had the biggest most colorful purse when she came to our wedding. There were a couple of shots of it as she came through the receiving line at the wedding. Speaking of weddings on this past Monday (5-26) I have been married to my lovely wife for 18 years.

I have made it to Easter

This is Josie and her dozen Easter Eggs from the Carpenter Kids Egg Hunt. I am picking Josie and her friend Emmie, who I like to call Alice to go and see Spring Sing with the school children. By the way, Alice calls me Mr. Alice so all is fair. Julie, the kids and a huge group from College Church of Christ left that afternoon to go to Nashville for Lads to Leaders. While there, they got a family photo made with my stunt double Zac Muncy. Many people get Zac and I confused, adults and children. Many who look at photos and don't read each of these hand typed posts that I pour all of my literary talent into might not notice that it is Zac and not me. Feel free to click on the photo for a larger view.