365 Photography Project – March

Here’s March’s pictures of the day! It was a crazy month and so I missed a few days, but I added some extras where I couldn’t pick just one.

Breakdown of topics:
Rayah – 10 pics
Justice – 9 pics
Joe - 2 pics
Me – 3 pics
Objects - 9 pics
Friends – 1 pic
Family - 4 pics
Food & Drink - 2 pics
Winter – 3 pics

To view larger images of my photos, you can visit my 365 Project blog at echoinghim.tumblr.com.

This month, I think my favorite pictures are the ones of the hoar frost. Do you have a favorite?

365 Project – February

Here’s February’s pictures of the day!

Breakdown of topics:
Rayah – 11 pics
Justice – 9 pics
Joe - 1 pic
Love/Romance – 4 pics
Me – 0 pics
Objects - 6 pics
Friends – 1 pic
Family - 1 pic
Food & Drink - 5 pics
Prayer – 1 pic
Music – 2 pics
Winter – 3 pics
Work – 1 pic

To view larger images of my photos, you can visit my 365 Project blog at echoinghim.tumblr.com.

This month, I think my favorite picture is the one of Rayah & I kissing. Do you have a favorite?

Fall Family Foto Shoot

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the opportunity for some alliteration in the title of my post. I realize that this is REALLY belated, but now that I finally posted my updated review of my Christmas cards, now I feel like I can share the pictures from that photo shoot, taken by my friend Alyssa Rempel.  I already gave you a sneak peek with the post full of pictures of Justice, so I won’t include those again, but here are a few of my favorites from that day…

 

My parents with all their grandkids!

My whole family – Joe & I and our kiddos, my brother Derek & his wife Erin, my parents, and my sister Nicole & her husband Nick with their sweet & beautiful twins.

365 Project – January

Well, I completed my first month of my 365 Photography Project and so far, so good! I enjoy the challenge and find it fun to wonder each day what my photo of the day will be? A couple days I couldn’t choose just one and on some days I was scraping the bottom of the barrel to try and come up with something. 95% of the photos were taken with my iPhone this month, with only a few taken with my point-and-shoot camera, but I’ve been enjoying using some of the fun photography iPhone apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, Camera+, and PS Express.

Breakdown of topics:
Rayah – 9 pics
Justice – 5 pics
Joe - 5 pics
Me – 5 pics
Objects - 9 pics
Friends – 3 pics
Food & Drink - 4 pics
Prayer – 4 pics
Winter – 4 pics

To view larger images of my photos, you can visit my 365 Project blog at echoinghim.tumblr.com.

Do you have a favorite??

365 Photography Project

Okay folks – I went and started a 365 Photography Project because I just couldn’t help myself!  So far I have only taken photos with my iPhone and I’m guessing that’s what the majority of them will be, so don’t expect anything high quality or fancy-schmancy.  Do expect to see pics that make me smile because I enjoy them. :)

Also, I decided to use tumblr as my way to share my pics, so if you are a tumblr user, feel free to follow me there, or you can add my site link to your blog/RSS reader of choice -> http://echoinghim.tumblr.com/

So go ahead check out the first 6 photos of 365!

2011

There have been an abundance of New Years posts lately, many detailing their resolutions or outlooks on the upcoming year, so I suppose I will join in as well.    While I wouldn’t say I’ve made any resolutions, I have several new projects or goals that I am wanting to implement this year that I am really excited about!

Prayer & Giving
Joe and I enjoy giving to various causes that we are passionate about, but we realized that we felt somewhat disconnected from the things we were giving to and that it was important to not only give financially, but to also pray for these issues.  So we are starting a prayer meeting with just the 2 of us once a week and we’ll focus on one of these issues per month in a rotation.  This month our focus is praying for the ending of human trafficking (modern-day slavery). 

We had our first prayer meeting last night and used the International House of Prayer‘s free prayer room webstream to help us out – they conveniently have a prayer meeting every Monday evening at 8:00pm for the ending of human trafficking that we could easily join in with and add our prayers to!  While I know that there will be weeks when I don’t feel motivated to get off my butt or where I have other things on my to do list or when I’m so focused on my own wants and needs that I won’t want to intercede for others, I am praying that God will give us the grace and strength to carry through the year. 

Ultimately, our goal and desire is to discover what it means to be priests of God and to minister to Him and others daily, wherever we are – at work, at home, at church, running errands, etc. – because this is who He made us to be and because He is worthy and deserving of our worship.

Bible Study
Joe and I also wanted to incorporate some kind of Bible study into our schedule, so we took advantage of the discounts available through IHOPU’s eSchooland registered for a 4-course non-credit audio bundle, which gives us four of the University’s courses in .mp3 format with all the course notes, which we can go through at our own pace.  We are probably going to start with the course “Christology” taught by Stephen Venable, which has 32 sessions, which we will go through 1 per week – that’s 8 months!!  The course description is:

“Through rigorous exploration of the biblical teaching concerning the person and work of Christ, this course seeks to inform the mind and inflame the heart with love. In view of the coming eschatological delusion, it is imperative that believers be established in the truths regarding the Son of God.”

We’ll probably listen to the teachings individually on our own time and then hopefully spend some time once a week together to discuss what we learned, simply meditate on God’s Word, and maybe spend some time in worship, singing about what we’ve discovered about Jesus!

Bible Reading Plan
I’ve noticed lots of people are getting excited about reading the Word this year and many people are signing up for various Bible reading plans.  Last year I managed to complete reading through the entire Bible in 90 days, but when I finished, I found myself floundering and not knowing what to do next.  Without a plan, I was lacking direction and so I ended up not reading my Bible at all!  When I read about some people who had this crazy plan to read through the New Testament in 30 days every month of this year (#NTx12 for those of you on Twitter), I felt like this was the plan I wanted to get on board with.  I’m excited about this plan because I had actually already been wanting to go deeper in the New Testament and this plan offers you the opportunity to “re-start” every month, in case you fall off the wagon.  Plus, it’s extra fun when you have others doing it along with you – several of my friends are joining in as well and it’s great watching the tweets starting already with people’s thoughts on what they’re discovering.  Most people are taking advantage of YouVersion.comwhich has fabulous resources with many reading plans to choose from – it’s easy to sign up for free and create an account that allows you to start a plan, tag verses with your own custom themes, bookmark your favorite verses, create notes with your private thoughts or share them publicly with the community, and much more!  If you’re on YouVersion – come follow me here!  I personally love using the YouVersion iPhone app, but I also enjoy the Blue Letter Bible iPhone app which allows me to highlight passages with my own custom colored themes (up to 7) and view related commentaries, dictionaries, etc.

365 Photography Project
I’ve always thought it would be fun to do a 365 Photography Project where I take one photo every day for a year and I am wondering if this is the year to try it?  I’m a little late, but I think it would be fun!  I’m a little hesitant because it’s also a big commitment and of all the things I’d like to do, this one would probably be the first to get abandoned, and I don’t really want to start if I’m just going to quit.  If my husband is reading this, he is probably pleading with God right now that I won’t do it, because he is horrified by the number of pictures I take and keep stored on our hard drive already – lol – but I am still very intrigued.  I’m thinking that if I don’t manage to take a picture every single day, that I would probably even be happy if I just took one picture per week, which works out well for one 365 Photography Project planthat gives you ideas/themes to inspire you – one for each week of the year.  The other drawback for me is that all I have are a point-and-shoot camera and my iPhone camera – not exactly professional equipment – so I’d have to do it knowing that my pictures wouldn’t be all that spectacular or come anywhere close to comparing with other photographer’s similar projects.  This week’s theme is “Cold”, which is definitely fitting for the frigid temperatures we are experiencing right now – I wonder what interesting photo I could take today???  If I do this, I’ll also have to choose my medium for sharing my photos – whether to post a blog weekly, monthly, or simply put them up on flickr or some other site – I’ll keep you updated on what I decide to do.

Yikes!!  I’m a little nervous about the amount of things I’m getting into, but mostly I’m just excited about the potential for growth and creativity and being challenged! 

Have you made any resolutions or goals or started any new projects this year?  Do share in the comments and let me know!

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