tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15856908382208634202024-03-13T08:07:05.934-07:00Encouragement for those on the journeyFloral Still Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07413269205452661623noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585690838220863420.post-83487426151092149142013-07-03T00:00:00.000-07:002013-07-03T17:13:46.704-07:00HOW GOD LED ME ALONG WITH PHOTOGRAPHY AND CARDSOnce upon a time I had no computer. I enjoyed writing poems and had even attended a one week writing seminar - but I only had a manual typewriter.<br />
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I kept looking at computers for years, but I never purchased one. The word was that prices would be coming down. The prices never came down and so I decided one day I would purchase a computer. In the meantime, I would manually type my “diary” on my manual typewriter. So in March of 1996, I started to type up my diary. <br />
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But working on my diary helped to speed up the decision to get a computer. During that same month I went out and purchased a computer desk and had it put together in my “computer” room. Then on the first weekend of April of 1996, my best friend took me to purchase my first computer.<br />
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Since I was only interested in “serious writing”....I didn’t want to spend the money for a color printer. I had heard that black and white laser printers were what to buy for the workforce. But when I suggested this to the computer tech support gentleman at my job, he didn’t think that was a good thing. “Don’t you think you might want a color printer? You might want to do a few cards.”<br />
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<u><b>May 4, 1996</b></u><br />
<i>I felt like I shouldn’t type on my diary so I found out my printer had a print shop thing you could install. I have had a lot of fun trying to design cards.</i><br />
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I quickly got tired of using the designs of other people. So I purchased some type of card program and tried to draw a bit. (I always knew I couldn’t draw.) Then I did a few cards combining several programs. I quickly got tired of even this. Anything I attempted to draw had a black outline. Flowers had a black outline. The moon had a black outline. Everything I did at this point was original, but I couldn’t draw and I didn’t like the black outline.<br />
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I later purchased a different program which allowed me to do some painting/drawing and I resumed trying to do cards.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Moreover as for me, God forbid that I</b></span><br />
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<b><u>June 27, 1996</u></b><br />
<i>I had a good time reflecting on the glory of God and what it could mean. <br />
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Then I came home from work and worked until 6:00 on my computer on trying to figure out why this morning my new card software was having trouble with colors printing out in black. (I skipped praying this morning at home to do a short sample on a card and that is when my trouble started.)</i><br />
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But I got the matter resolved and continued doing cards.<br />
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By September of 1996, I had submitted a few card ideas to a card company. I was turned down. Eventually I gave up doing cards. I was spending too much money and I couldn’t really draw.<br />
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In December of 1996, I asked a friend if I could have some extra copies of some photographs she took at a party. She gave me the negatives and I got the photos developed. After I purchased the photos I saw a small paint program. It cost about $10.00. Then I was back to “drawing” again. This time I was doing cards to occupy my time and to encourage myself.<br />
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About a week before my birthday in ‘97, I bought myself a small Wacom writing tablet. It took me a week before I opened it up. (Though I wanted the Wacom, I was having trouble justifying the expense for a “fun” thing.)<br />
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<b>May you </b><br />
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<b>your cares upon God.</b><br />
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Later on in ‘97, I found myself at an office supply store admiring the 65 and 110 pound weight card stock. I just knew my printer couldn’t print cards out on that weight of paper. (I so much wanted my cards to look better than what I had been doing: printing cards as either a side fold or a top fold.) A salesman saw me and asked if he could help me. He told me my printer would do fine on card stock. So I started using 65 pound weight paper and purchased a small paper cutter.<br />
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I then started complaining about trying to draw. “I ought to get a scanner,” I told one co-worker. “I can take pictures better than I can draw.” <br />
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Then during spring break of ‘98, I purchased my photo scanner and started scanning photos I had taken in previous years. (During the year of 1996, I had taken one roll of film and never had it developed.)<b> </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>When your heart and spirit are numb,</b></span><br />
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Let us therefore come boldly<br />
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we may obtain mercy, and find<br />
grace to help in time of need. <br />
Hebrews 4:16<br />
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It didn’t take me too long to quickly grow tired of scanning in old pictures and I found myself photographing again. However, I then began to have troubles. My printer didn’t print light colors well and many of my photos had to have good quality color.<br />
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In October of 1998, I photographed a really pretty morning glory and in order for it to print as it should, I had to use glossy paper - best quality. <br />
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When I took a vacation day the first Friday in November of 1998, I intended to purchase a laminater, but I ended up getting a new printer because my first printer broke.<br />
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After my ordeal in installing my new printer, I cried. The quality of printed out photos on plain 65 pound weight card stock on normal setting was the same as best quality on glossy paper on my old printer and the light colors looked great with my new printer!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>May the grace</b></span><br />
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During spring break of 1999, it didn’t take my brother too long to convince me to buy at least another lens for my camera. I was using a camera I had purchased in 1973. <br />
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My new lens was an used zoom lens and before spring break was over, I also purchased a new camera with a standard lens. (I had determined I was going to gradually ease my way into buying a new camera system.) By the middle of June I had discovered my old camera had a light leak and so I was off buying new lenses.<br />
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After the purchase of the new camera system, I had one goal - learn as much as I could during the summer and fall about photography and then devote the winter months in doing cards. <br />
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After my decision to learn more about photography, a wonderful man started teaching portrait photo classes where I worked. I enrolled into his class in September of 1999.<br />
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He showed me how to use a tripod. This opened up a whole new world for me. I began to take still life pictures.<br />
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Then God brought into my life some wonderful caring photographers who were willing to<br />
spend time with a nobody.<br />
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Through all these years God has continued to guide and lead me on my journey of photography and cards. <br />
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<b>Through my cards and photography I only wish to show that God is good, </b><br />
<b>faithful, true, trustworthy, merciful and kind. And basically....only God knows </b><br />
<b>how truly He is the Great I AM.</b><br />
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<b>I pray that in telling my short story you have been encouraged with </b><br />
<b>the knowledge that God does lead in His paths.</b><br />
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<b>I, also, do not know what you are going through at this particular time. </b><br />
<b>However, I do know that in the end you will be glad that you had put </b><br />
<b>your trust in the Lord for the salvation of your soul.</b><br />
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I’ve tasted of Your glory, God;<br />
I’ve seen that You are good;<br />
I’ve witnessed tiny miracles;<br />
I’ve known Your saving grace.<br />
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And though I’m not as Jacob,<br />
wrestling with You in the night,<br />
my spirit knows that You’re the prize<br />
for the ones I know.<br />
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So, I’ll cling to You by Your verses<br />
and my cry to You shall be,<br />
“I cannot let You go, my God,<br />
for the ones I know need You.”<br />
M. Robbins<b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>ONCE AGAIN, MAY IT ENCOURAGE YOU TO KNOW THAT GOD DOES LEAD UNTO HIS GLORY.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>You can never, never, exhaust<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And the hope </b><br />
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<b>all eternity.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>So why can’t you trust His goodness,<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>You may draw </b><br />
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<b>God</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Many are the days</b><br />
<b>that we do not</b><br />
<b>understand</b><br />
<b>God's ways.</b><br />
<b>But a part of </b><br />
<b>faith is knowing</b><br />
<b>we'll have an eternity</b><br />
<b>to enjoy the fulfillment</b><br />
<b>of His promises.</b></span><br />
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<b>His ways.</b></span><br />
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<b>and may you trust</b><br />
<b>Him to do His will</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>May you always put </b><br />
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<b>doubt</b><br />
<b>the love</b><br />
<b>and care</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And </b><br />
<b>how</b><br />
<b>precious</b><br />
<b>is </b><br />
<b>your</b><br />
<b>voice</b><br />
<b>unto</b><br />
<b>the heart</b><br />
<b>of God.</b></span><br />
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<b>He'll</b><br />
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<b>say,</b><br />
<b>"Go </b><br />
<b>away!</b></span><br />
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