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a local pastor
becomes Santa
for one night.
spreading love
and cheer.
God's love sometimes
shows up in a Santa suit.
one of my favorite moments of 2011.
Merry Merry Christmas, my dear flickr friends.
It's been quite some time I 've requested membership and been accepted to three Etsy teams, as a seller and a photographer.
I'm currently considered and I'm happy to be a member of the Female Photographers on Etsy (poe) and of Photographers on Etsy (poe)
The most important and more meaningful to me though is my membership in Etsy Project Embrace.
So, my shop and I are going to be adding a little tiny bit of help in the Research for the Cure of Cancer. To begin this effort, 33% of the earnings the sales of these three prints displayed above bring, are donated to his cause.
You may find them availabe at my shop, the link of which is in my profile section.
From each one of those items, you may be linked to the official page of the team, so that you inform yourself and perhaps decide to contribute, too. Either as a seller, or as a buyer, or maybe both :)
My old friend, Scott, has a beautiful daughter named Sara.
My graphite and color-added portrait here is an abstract that I did as a gift for Scott which is not at all typical of my portrait style. (I did this when my vision was excellent, by the way.)
However, this is one of my favorite children's portraits that I have done for a special reason.
Scott is a former coworker of mine. He was always sharing photos of his daughter, of whom he was so proud. But Sara could not say, "I love you," to her Father. In fact, Sara had not said anything.
So, looking at my friend's daughter, Sara, I could see not just a classically beautiful child that admiring, passing strangers saw (her hair was a striking deep auburn then, her skin perfect with deep red lips and her eyes the darkest brown-black that I had ever seen), but a girl who was an unfolding mystery to her parents. Dear Sara is autistic and as young parents, her Mother and Father had so many pieces of the puzzle to put together in order to be the best parents to Sara that they could manage.
Her parents have been wonderful parents to her, by the way. (It was always an honor whenever I was trusted by cautious parents such as Sara's that I was allowed to photograph their child so that I could do portrait drawings like this one from my own photos.)
So when I look at Sara, I see the beauty, the mystery and all of her unlocked potential ... as if she were a child who was writing a new, amazing story with each new day of her life with her parents.
Capturing Sara's "dreamy" aura was not easy, I have done many portraits of Sara, some which are very traditional and I may share later on Flickr.
However, I hope you see the beautiful mystery which I think of when I recall sweet, little Sara.
[I dedicate this photo-blog to my friend, Robbie.]
Lindsay (Duchess) & Jim came all the way from Brooklyn this year. I can't tell you how happy that made me.
This child has lost vision on one eye and has numerous ailments yet you can see his courage as he smiles and face his health problems. I was blessd to join Love-in-Action 2012 - Sharing God's love to the physically ill children of National Children's Hospital, Quezon City. A special outreach project of the NMEC Life Development Team in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Bagumbayan, Manila.