Man Made Creation - Inspired By God
I love older bulidings. This one was ran down.. Even though its old and has history. I has beauty. What amazes me that the same way a builder put detail into this building and it looks beautiful. God created us put every detail into who we are and made us differnt from every other person in the world. He wants to spend time with us, talk to us and give us everything we need and more. Not only that God died so that we could have joy and life after death. Jesus gave us everything by forsaking all.

Why do we live our lives for ourselves in the name of God? We tell our friends we are Christian but when given the oportunity we don't stand up for him. Others can speak against him use his name volgarly and we sit in the background quietly. If Gays can speak for their rights bash thouse who stand up for truth. Why can't we stand up for what we know is right. Forsake all for his name. 

Time Away!
Showing down and doing nothing is one of the hardest things for me. I tend to have lots of seasons where God tells me I need to lay down everything. The reason i've found is becasue I have had a patern in my life of picking things up. I like to collect hobbies. I don't completely fishish those hobbies I just start them. So once again here I am in a place where I'm suppose to foucas on nothing but God. Its hard there are so many distractions. Video games, people, the internet.

The more and more I think about it I only know one thing. The only things that has been constant in my life is God.. Not necessarly the depth of my relationship with him (that hasn't been contstant)but his desire to presue me even when I won't give him the time of day. When I would rather put him on the back burner than spend time with him. Its a pattern I really want to break and I want to keep others out of because it is a slipperly slope of pride and irrogance. As we come up on Easter the one thing that keeps me wakeing up in the morning is that God wont let me sleep in and miss whats next. Its amazing even when I have seemed less thant interested in him he puts me on the front of his mind. He thinks about me constantly. He tell me where to go and what to do. See what I know is my problem and possbily yours is not hearing God.. Most of us do that fine. Its doing what we know we should when it seems differnt from what we think thinks should look like. When I feel like giving up on myself God reminds me that he has a future and a hope for me. But I have to follow. I must to be willing to give my life to him so that he can change it mold it and make it as increadable as he planned for it to be.

Am I willing(ask yourself the same question)

You can't answer with words you must answer with actions. By doing!

Remember God spoke and he put his words to action, he didnt speak and then go just watch
tv.

John 

Ever wonder how to know if your going in the right direction. Here's a hint. Everywhere you go and in everything you do you feel the presence of God. There is more of God in you then you. Peoples lives are being changed not by what you do but what God does in you!

I'm in the myst of change. I plan on Doing allot of personal journaling as well as some blogging so that others can see what I'm dealing in my life. I want others to know that with out God taking over every part of who they are they have no purpose. Our dreams with out time fail. We cant do things on our own. There is no way we can change our own lives dramaticly unless we surrender to to God refining fire.

That is wher I'm at now. God has told me to put everything on hold my new business my life my activies that don't have anything to do with him but are "me" foucased. I want to leave me behind and take up Jesus!!

Proverbs: 25:4 Remove the dross from the silver, and out comes material for ^[a] the silversmith;

Psalms 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect;
the word of the LORD is flawless.
He is a shield
for all who take refuge in him.

Weddings, What a beautiful thing!

Man this little pride and joy reminds me how one day it will be great to have kids. Something that God created though me!

I'm not sure if I'm totally sold out to do weddings they are such an important thing in someones life. Not something to take lightly.. but what fun when you come up with something this great!

John 

Spring is Almost here!!!














What a weird week.. We had snow, hail in some places thunderstorms and today was beautiful. God is so awesome. He makes me appreicate his creation and see how much a miracle I really am. I cant wait to get more pictures of sping as flower start to blume.

Rom 1:20 From the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly observed in what he made. As a result, people have no excuse.

Its time for Flowers
This is my first attemped for close up flower pictures.. Unfortunately the flowers wern't the best.. But I love the richness of color. Things are so busy. I need a secretary for my business and I havent made that much money yet.. 

Things have been so crazy. I guess I put my blog on the back burner not really knowing if anyone actually reads this! I did photos at a motor cross race!! MAN WAS IT FUN!!!

Other then that ministry things are going great.. Keep looking for more info on future events comming up out here in Olympia. 

Chilli!!
I love Chilli!! I have never made it from scratch before I entered into a cook off!! And well look at that.. I got 3rd place!! Even my pastors, (one of them happends to be the best cook in the world) liked it and said I did a great job. I know if I get her seal of aproval I acutally did a good job. NEXT YEAR 1st PLACE!!! 

I need to get out more!
I haven't been out shooting for a while. I'm trying to balance things out. This blog is dedicated to my little sister Kara who had a motorcyle accident just recently in which she broke her neck. Thank God it was just a hairline fracture. Please be praying for a quick recovery.

I added a new action photography area to my page.. check it out www.thephotoevangelist.com.

I hope all is well with the one or two poeple who actually look at this page. Pray pray pray for business for me.

John

Ok, This blog is different. It is a participation based blog. Please leave me comments regarding this picture. Ive been working on my logo for letter heads and all that stuff.. Tell me what you think!! Also have your friends come and leave comments too.. The more Input the marryer. 

Ocean Trip
Its Thursday and I'm finally putting a picture from this weekend up.. Sorry if any of you came to look earlier beacsue you where directed from Emily's blog.. I love Gods creation and how you can take photos of it yet only capture part of the beauty of the moment..

Things have been busy.. Pray that they slow down!!

John 

One Thing I love about photography is meeiting people!
Today my brother Emily and i went to the ocean to take pictures. I will have some of those posted as soon as I get all of them back. For now I met these three while out getting pictures of Mt Rainer .. They seemed really nice and I promised to get them posted on my website. Since I know this blog has confirmed traffic I thought I would post them here! Hopefully we meet again.. I'm tired and ready to crash!! Good night all..


 

Sunrise Sunset!
I got up normal time but left a little early to beat the sun. Looks like I was able to do that! It was really cold but not as bad as the day before.. Expect more pictures I'm taking a day trip with my brother and Emily.

I'm also praying about where to go with my business I know it needs to grow but I want to make sure I balance my life correctly and honor God in all that i do.

John 

An email I sent to Emily,

I need a way to get better at my morning time. My friend and I use to meet every morning and pray I miss that. I find that I tend to do better with others involved. I just saw Anne and told her how I left early to take a picture of the mountain. MY mistake was wording it that I got up early for photography… Of course here response was classic. “When was the last time you got up for God? “ Naturally I stood there looking like an idiot. Because I cant remember the last time. Actually I do. It was because I had acid reflux and I couldn’t go back to sleep. When I get married I think I’m going to have to create a time with my wife to do worship and prayer before we start the day. How cool would that be? I gotta give God more time. I’m just struggling with how to make my day fit. Guess its time to fix my priorities. I just am horrible and following through with self motivation. I’m great at leading if people so up, But if I’m by myself I don’t do very well.

That’s my thought!

I left eary to take this picture. It was soo cold! My hands got hot when I got in my car.. It amazes me how much stuff there is to take a picture of in my own back yard. I don't think I truly realized how blessed I am to live in washington until recently. God is Good! Amazing things are happening in our city I can feel change comming!! 

Kim, this blogs for you and your puppy. I love taking pictures of people, animals and other living stuff.. Life is beautiful.. It shows how amazing God is.

Romans1:20

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." 

My roomate Ryan pointed out to me that the moon was brilliant tonight. There was not one cloud so this picture is crsip and clear!! Unlike my other atempt. Man do I love my Camera

Nikon D50
Focal Length 200mm
Shutter Speed 1/500 sec
Aperture f/7.1
 

The mountian does exist!! The popular belief that it always rains in Washington was definately proven wrong today!! We are praying for more days like this soon so that we can take lots more photos! I also met some poeple at this park that I have never met before. If they read this send me a message so I can send you the picture I took.

Two of My favorite things!! Man do I love starbucks!! And my new love of photography!! When I saw my cup sitting there I couldn't help but put this picture together! The picture inspired me to start a blog. Might as well join the world of bloggers.. I hope I get people to actually read this. The blog will be about photography and the most important person in my life! Jesus!! Enjoy as you learn more about me and my passion for Christ!

Thank you to Jason! For buying me a camera for my birthday.