Alive in five?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Alive?

Unhelpful answers aside I got asked this question at bible study this week, and I have been praying for time to think about my future. So here we go:

I suppose the only thing that I've thought seriously about in thinking about the next  5 years is I want to be out of my parents house. Don't get me wrong I love my parents very dearly, but in five years I'll be 27 and really I don't still want to be living at home. Also I've made a promise to myself that I'll be out of my suburb by the time the train line comes though. (My suburb is getting a train line, that is meant to be done by 2020) So I'll be very disappointed in myself if I'm still living at home by that stage.

So in five years I'll be 27, it'll be 2019 and I would have finished my degree three years ago.

The most important thing to mention is that I want to be serving God; somewhere, anywhere. 
Whether in a church, paid, unpaid, as a missionary, overseas, here, where ever, however. 

That aside ideally I would be working full time making money off my photography. 

Here's the big dream (this is crazy scary to be even typing down): To be living somewhere in the northern territory (I loved the NT as a kid and would relish the chance to go back), maybe working as a missionary, or involved in the local aboriginal church. and to be taking the most amazing landscape photography on the side to be supporting myself.


So yeah that's enough big scary future thinking for now. 

(to future me: 'don't laugh too hard when you read this' - I'm sure God has bigger plans )

'Footnotes' - Lena Maria

I read this today, in one sitting. I couldn't put it down.

It's the autobiography of  Lean Maria Klingvall.

She has an amazing life story; she was born without arms and only half her left leg.

She went to the paralympics for swimming and has performed vocally all over the world. Woven throughout the whole book is Lena's faith. She overtly talks of her faith and (in the words of the book's blurb) 'pays tribute to the Creator who never makes mistakes'.

 I highly recommend this book as I've said I literally couldn't put it down, it was super easy to read. It's not a droning chronology of her life but short highlights and significant moments, written in a easy conversational way. 

Again I highly recommend you read this book. It's excellent!

Rain, rain, go away and bring us some LIGHTNING !

"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. He bumped his head on the end of the bed and couldn't get up in the morning."

That really is a stupid rhyme. But it's raining... and i'm procrastinating getting ready to go to uni. I have this 'video for photographers' class this term and I have no idea what the teacher's talking about and Maggie doesn't do video.. (it's going to be a looonng term).

I have to do a 10-15 min documentary on any subject of my choice and I'm thinking about doing it on dance. And we have another one on an 'emotion' (such a cop out.) It's all arty and vauge and interpretative.... I thought about doing 'passion'.

Is 'passion' an emotion? What about 'strive' and 'trial'? Side note: my sister once had a discussion with some guys she works with that 'tired' and 'hungry' are not emotions. I would argue that they are feelings though. 

Emotions are such weird things. They are internal but expressed externally. They are so fricking complicated. It's part of what sets us apart from other animals, our emotions and our ability to communicate them to each other and to feel empathy for each other. 

I'm not in the mood to get all psycho-analysis on myself so I'll just leave this here. 

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God's Word's Awesome!

"Scripture is God's chosen means of revealing His character and will, to His people in every age."
Introduction to the Bible - Moore Theological college, Correspndance Course

How amazing is this? Like really think about it. The bible is the way that God chooses to communicate with us. We can read His word to us. Direct. God gave us brains to question, to wrestle with and to seek to understand him through his word. God could have just inserted his information into our brains like a micro chip. Bing we know all that we need to know abut him. But God reveals his character and will to us in His word the bible. It's relevant to all people though all ages, His character never changes and we can trust that it never will.

I think that's pretty amazing! :)

MYC

Just some photos from MYC; an amazing week of learning about the ends times from revelation, of meeting great people and fellowship together!

  

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Ho hum :)

'Why are people afraid of their own blood'? And 'It feels like there in fishing line in my mouth'* are two thoughts that I had today. Welcome to my weird brain. Again  it has been a super long time since I wrote anything. I got really busy with wedding stuff in April and uni got really busy at the end of June. I don't remember what happened in May.....

There are some photos from the wedding here 

Also I finally got around to designing my own logo to watermark my work. I am still (not really) working on my website but I regularly post to my photography instagram account follow me here. (or here for day-to-day stuff).

Here and Here are some samples of my recent assignments for uni.

I have been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do with my photography long term, (and have come to the conclusion that I still don't really know). I know that I still don't want to do fashion or weddings.  I am leaning towards product photography and/or nature photography. I will see where God leads me.

I am no longer working for the dance company that I was working for, and am currently looking for work.

Ho hum what else? Next week I go away to MYC for the week

That's about it for now :)



*I had my wisdom teeth out on Tuesday 

Symbolism

I got this concept off something I saw online of a similar nature. I am really anti-smoking and wanted to explore advertising and product photography. I'm really happy with the results.