Passing on the torch!

Last Saturday marked the beginning of me (Rodney) passing on to Austin the torch that my dad passed on to me...airshows! Ye haw! It was held at the Lynchburg Regional Airport in Lynchburg VA. I also saw a bit of Joy's alma mater, Liberty University, as we parked on campus and were shuttled to the airport a short distance away.

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Having none of it!

Sometimes photo shoots just don't go as planned:-)

A book I cannot read

As a missionary working in Bible translation with a literacy organization like Wycliffe, I understand the need for literature to be made accessible to people in their mother tongue.

I stumbled upon a braille 'Bible' (actually a book of Bible stories for children published by Braille Bibles International) in the basement of a church recently. I'd probably manage to learn to read it if needed, but to my untrained...finger, it seems like such a mess of bumps on a page with little structure, a language totally foreign and set apart from how I presently communicate.

Perhaps this is how people feel when they try to read a Bible in a language other than that which they grew up with.

Are bricks returnable? Didn't work!

No matter how hard we try, we cannot stop Austin from growing up. He is now 6. Bricks on the head did not work, maybe if we stop feeding him. We celebrated his 6th birthday at the Fun Station in Statesville NC. It was during the week, so with the exception of the employees (two) we had the entire place to ourselves.

Wrapping light

In my photography these days I am learning to balance ambient light with off camera flash, and I am putting the light through a Lumiquest Softbox III for soft, wrap-around light. With the exception of using the on camera flash for a bit of fill, gone are the days of using a shoe mounted flash as my main light. Why turn a very smart camera into a xerox machine, producing flat harsh light?



Exposing for the wonderful sky would have left the faces dark. But if you expose for the sky and add back about 1/8th power of soft flash, you instantly get a much higher quality of light, not to mention great subject seperation and catch light in the eyes.