Gus - Faces of Brazil

   Another neighborhood friend of Johnathan's is eight-year-old Gus.  Though a few years older than Johnathan, they have a great time together!  Here's a picture of him in the middle of a game of "Connect-Four" with Johnathan in our back yard.

Two Boys - Faces of Brazil

These two are good friends of ours and good friends of each other - which is great since they are related!

Updated Portraits of the Kiddos

Well, I finally was able to take some updated headshot portraits of our kids!

Go Big Red!

It's Husker Football Season!

Adalia - A Maine Girl

     We had the privilege of visiting some friends in Maine.  I was just going through some photos I took of their daughter and came across this gem.  She is a sweet girl from a great family. I wish I'd have a picture of the entire family to share here.

This photo was submitted to the I Heart Faces photo challenge – www.iheartfaces.com

Fusbol Girl - Faces of Brazil

    This shy, young lady seemed to really enjoy herself at youth camp this past summer.  Here she's enjoying some friendly competition at the fusbol table.

Friendly Camper - Faces of Brazil - Wordless Wednesday

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Quote of the Day:

     If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
       - George Burns

The Brasilian Pastime - Futebol

    Anywhere you go here in Brasil, you'll see kids playing futebol (soccer).  The amazing thing is to watch them play without shoes in the unpaved road or in a rocky field!  I wouldn't last a minute; I'm bad enough even when wearing shoes.  Everyone here has grown up playing like this and so they can control the ball as deftly with their feet as most people could with their hands!

     I have played with them some - fun but humiliating!

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Quote of the Day:
     The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.
       - Anson Dorrance (Head coach of the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina. ...Under Dorrance's leadership, the Tar Heels have won 20 of the 28 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships. - wikipedia)

J. P. - Faces of Brazil

    With our recent move to Brazil, I have not been able to post many photos.  However, now I have a whole new array of subjects for photography.

     This little boy is the son of a couple who go to our church here.  We had an outdoor church fellowship yesterday and this guy was having a lot of fun playing in the dusty parking lot along with all the other kids.  He is fully Brazilian, though his natural blond highlights are not common for people in this area.  He is about the age of our son and so they get to play together after church.

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Quote of the Day:
        Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.
          -  Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)

Untimely Knight

   This is a scheduled post.  It was written quite some time back, but I knew that with our move to Brazil, South America, my time for putting up new pictures would be quite limited.

   Many of the kids in our neighborhood in NC just got new "Swords" and so you can only imagine the fierce battles that have been taking place.  Here I got to capture one of the young "knights."

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Quote of the Day:

     If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
         -  Calvin (Bill Watterson)

Summer Weather is Here! - Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday


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Quote of the Day:
     “If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”
              - Groucho Marx

I Heart Wind!

     Actually, I don't love the wind, but this week's theme at "i ♥ faces" is "wind" and we've had plenty of that this week here in North Carolina.  However, the wind does make for some interesting portrait shots!

-----------------------Quote of the Day:    Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

           — Louis L'Amour

Cowboy Hat - Wordless Wednesday

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Quote of the Day:
     The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
         -- Albert Einstein

Sincere - I Heart Faces

    This is the daughter of a close friend of mine.  We were talking about my camera and so I fired this "sample shot" and I loved the way it turned out.  Sometimes the best shots are those you're not prepared for.
     One thing I appreciate this young lady is her love for Christ and her simple transparency.

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Quote of the Day:
     “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
           -  Marcel Proust

Little Girl's Sunny Portrait

     As I had my son at the park with some of our church friends' kids, I got to take a short series of pictures of this little girl.  It was full sun and windy, but we had a great time!

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Quote of the Day:
     Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
            - Paula Poundstone

I Heart a Slice of Life

    This week the theme at "i ♥ faces"is "A Slice of Life."  This picture is a good snapshot of a slice of my son's life.  He just loves playing in the park; I think he'd live in the park if we'd let him!

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Quote of the Day:

     I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
         - Mark Twain 

How Right They Are! - Wordless Wednesday

Spinning at the Park

This little girl had so much fun spinning in circles while I was trying to photograph her!

     Unfortunately, just looking at this picture, or watching her going around, and around, and around, just makes me sick to my stomach.  And so here is a shot of her that I like much better!

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Quote of the Day:
     You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
        - Warren Beatty

Fall Portraits - Missionary Couple

      We had a wonderful time getting to know this couple.  They have been in Brazil for a number of years and so we were able to pick their brains for a lot of information to help us in the preparations for our move there.  

      They were also so easy to photograph.  Their love for each other is so evident, not only in these photos, but also their conduct with each other.

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Quote of the Day:
      We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
         - Anais Nin

Ready or Not - Here Comes Winter!

     I am not ready for the cold weather - but it seems to be coming anyway!  I guess that's another reason why God is moving us to Brazil; no more winters!

     I took this picture of my nephew with my Nikkor 135mm F2.8; which must be used fully manually on all Nikon DSLR's.  But it is such a sharp, crisp lens!


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Quote of the Day:

     Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

        - Evan Davis