For those of you who don't know, I am a photographer on and off.
So many people have encouraged me to take the final step and start a proper business instead of sticking just to friends and word of mouth but I never seem to take that final plunge. The money commitment would mean that I had to work to meet repayments and I always wanted to enjoy my photography, not injure it.
When I was growing up I never knew what I wanted to do as a job, it always bothered me that friends around me had some form of direction and I had no idea. That all changed when I was baptised as an adult and asked God for direction, what he wanted me to do......photography has been a passion ever since.
I always wanted to use it for Gods work though and could never see how I could..........till a few years ago.....my sister gave birth to a little angel baby, Gabrielle. I was at the birth and spent time holding this tiny little girl that was already with Jesus. Gabrielle barely fit into the palm of my hand, and she was beautiful. My sister fell pregnant again shortly after and tragically we had to say goodbye to another little angel, Alina.
I was able to hold both of the girls and never thought to take photos ( which I will regret forever). I was so emotionally involved and because both the girls where born just before the 20 weeks mark, they where so tiny and unfortunately the hospitals don't consider a baby born before 20weeks as a stillborn, they call it "a missed abortion" which implies that there was some sort of choice in the matter.
But my sister gave birth to her angel girls and although tiny, they where her babies, and both my sister and her husband deserved to have memories of their precious little fingers and toes, the way their tiny lips looked....every detail of their children.
The only photos my sister has are terrible ones that the hospital took 3days after they where born, we had all but a moment of opportunity that we missed and we can never get it back.
Since that time I have wanted to help families capture loving memories of there angel babies. There have been many people I have met since that due to shock and grief never thought to take many photos and all have regretted it.
God continued to bring me closer to this vision when I stumbled across a photographer, Erin Drallos http://www.footprintsphotography.com/ who has a section called "heart and soul". Erin started a program in America where a group of child photographers on a voluntary basis work with family with desperately ill children or who have suffered the loss of a child, capturing lifetime memories in a moment of time.
I desperately wanted to start something up in Adelaide but didn't have the know how to make it work...............Then God lead me to Lia's blog http://www.liahayes.typepad.com/who has the same vision, and the blessing continued when I e-mailed her to let her know that I would love to be involved and found out that not only does she live in the same state, she lives 5 minutes away!! God is awesome!!!
If there is any photographers that read this blog and feel a calling to help, please let me know. The more photographers we have, the better.
So many people have encouraged me to take the final step and start a proper business instead of sticking just to friends and word of mouth but I never seem to take that final plunge. The money commitment would mean that I had to work to meet repayments and I always wanted to enjoy my photography, not injure it.
When I was growing up I never knew what I wanted to do as a job, it always bothered me that friends around me had some form of direction and I had no idea. That all changed when I was baptised as an adult and asked God for direction, what he wanted me to do......photography has been a passion ever since.
I always wanted to use it for Gods work though and could never see how I could..........till a few years ago.....my sister gave birth to a little angel baby, Gabrielle. I was at the birth and spent time holding this tiny little girl that was already with Jesus. Gabrielle barely fit into the palm of my hand, and she was beautiful. My sister fell pregnant again shortly after and tragically we had to say goodbye to another little angel, Alina.
I was able to hold both of the girls and never thought to take photos ( which I will regret forever). I was so emotionally involved and because both the girls where born just before the 20 weeks mark, they where so tiny and unfortunately the hospitals don't consider a baby born before 20weeks as a stillborn, they call it "a missed abortion" which implies that there was some sort of choice in the matter.
But my sister gave birth to her angel girls and although tiny, they where her babies, and both my sister and her husband deserved to have memories of their precious little fingers and toes, the way their tiny lips looked....every detail of their children.
The only photos my sister has are terrible ones that the hospital took 3days after they where born, we had all but a moment of opportunity that we missed and we can never get it back.
Since that time I have wanted to help families capture loving memories of there angel babies. There have been many people I have met since that due to shock and grief never thought to take many photos and all have regretted it.
God continued to bring me closer to this vision when I stumbled across a photographer, Erin Drallos http://www.footprintsphotography.com/ who has a section called "heart and soul". Erin started a program in America where a group of child photographers on a voluntary basis work with family with desperately ill children or who have suffered the loss of a child, capturing lifetime memories in a moment of time.
I desperately wanted to start something up in Adelaide but didn't have the know how to make it work...............Then God lead me to Lia's blog http://www.liahayes.typepad.com/who has the same vision, and the blessing continued when I e-mailed her to let her know that I would love to be involved and found out that not only does she live in the same state, she lives 5 minutes away!! God is awesome!!!
If there is any photographers that read this blog and feel a calling to help, please let me know. The more photographers we have, the better.
