Romans 10:11

Romans 1:20

If you are saving this photo to use as a desktop background, be sure to click on it so that it gets larger and then click it again to make sure that it is the largest that it can be.  

Psalm 103:15-16

If you are saving this photo to use as a desktop background, be sure to click on it so that it gets larger and then click it again to make sure that it is the largest that it can be.  

Proverbs 4:23

If you are saving this photo to use as a desktop background, be sure to click on it so that it gets larger and then click it again to make sure that it is the largest that it can be.  

Proverbs 3:5-6

John 19:1-2

Isaiah 40:8

Genesis 1:24

1 Timothy 4:12

Genesis 1:16-18

Luke 19:40

Bringing in the New Year with...Desktop Verses

So I have been thinking for a little while now (18 days to be exact) as to how I was going to start out the new year on my blog.  I started the whole blogging thing as a way to post some of my photos so that others could see them, but also as an encouragement for me to be continually shooting.

However, as I continued posting, I noticed that I kept going to the stats page of my blog only to feel the glory of how many people were looking at my photos.  Basically what I am saying is blogging turned into yet another way in my life for me to be prideful.  By no means am I saying that I was outwardly saying that my blog was my way to be arrogant about how many people were looking at my blog, or how good the pictures were that I posted, but inwardly I was getting so much satisfaction out of it.

At the winter conference for Campus Crusade, I learned a lot of things, but my inward pride was one thing that I was completely convicted about.  On the outside, I try my hardest to never show my pride, but that does not mean that it is not there.

The part that I struggled with the most is that I really do want others to be able to enjoy the photos that I take because it is a visual representation of how incredible God is.  Taking pictures for me can even be a way of worshipping my creator!

So what I have come up with I am calling Desktop Verses.  I am going to be writing scripture on the photos that I upload to my blog so that anyone who looks at my blog can save my pictures to their computers and put them as their desktop background and every time they open up their computer, they will be memorizing verses simply by seeing them so many times.

I am going to be doing the same thing on my computer in an effort to help me memorize God's word as well.  I hope that this can help my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ in ways that I will never even know about.

State Fair

Colored Lights and Streaking Stars

So if you are looking at this picture and saying to yourself, 'What in the world are those red and green lights that are everywhere...even in mid air,' then do I have a story for you.  I was at my girlfriend's apartment when I was cordially invited to go star gazing at Thunder Hill on the parkway, and seeing how I had no idea what Thunder Hill was, and based on the sheer weight of the name, I was very interested in going.  Once we got their, I was told that there was homemade chili involved and the night just kept getting better.  We, meaning me and about 10 others, hiked the short distance to the top of the hill and set out a couple of blankets on top of what we found out were thorn bushes.  We dished out chili and were having a grand ole' time when all of a sudden...someone pulled out some glow sticks.  I still don't know where they came from or why anyone even had them with them, but they ended up being a lot of fun.  I was taking a star trail, or picture like the one above, when we started to throw the glow sticks back and forth.  Next thing you know, we were throwing them as high as we could in the air and then at each other and then back into the air.  Needless to say the camera caught all of that in one single picture and that is what you see above.  The above photo shows the beauty of the night sky, while also showing the beauty of simple pleasures or random fun times.  I didn't even know who all was there that night, but I got to experience community and share life and fun times with others.  I love this picture, because you can't look at it and not wonder what is going on in it.  

And this is when you realize, It is Different on The Mountain

I had a nice time in the high country today with my older brother Billy, his girlfriend Kayce and my lovely girlfriend, Erika.  All photos are from Beacon Heights on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Pictures just can't do it justice.

Billy and Kasey 

It doesn't get much better than this...A beautiful girlfriend, in front of an incredible backdrop.

Dad's Birthday Breakfast

Here are some shots from my family's celebration breakfast for my dad's birthday yesterday.

Viaduct Stars

I took both of these photos from approximately the same place, but I took them on different nights.  One of the nights, the moon was out, and the other one it wasn't.

Stars

Spider

The Cabin in the Snow