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Happy Birthday, Christian Photographers!!

Let's make this a party atmosphere this week!  Let's see...we need entertainment.  Who will sing for us?  Play the piano?  Strum a guitar?  Recite some poetry?  Preach for us?  Pray for us?  Give praise for us?  Hunh? 

And we need food...I'll bring the birthday cake!!



Maybe two....


What else do we need?  Come on!  We need suggestions!!!

Yes, Etta Sue, SIX YEARS!!!

Six years ago, on April 9, we opened the Christian Photographers website.  Here's a link to our very first topic:  http://www.christianphotographers.com/community/index.php?topic=2.0

Lots of errors in it now and broken links but I think it's just so nice to be able to look back on history!

  Happy Sixth Anniversary!!!   

Yes, you are part of our Christian Photographers website and on April 9th, we celebrate SIX YEARS on the web!

Please visit us in our "Thoughts for the Week" and post a message.  Even if you've never posted on the site, please login and scroll down and click on the "Reply" button and share with us.

We'd certainly like to renew old memories and also make new friends.

So, Happy Anniversary, and see you here this week!

Pat

It  sure seems like much less than six years!  God has indeed used this site in many lives though.  Thank Him for that.  I wish Mieka would come back and bless us with her presence again!

Happy Birthday CP!!!

Quote from: Etta Sue on April 05, 2009, 05:18:19 PM



Let's make this a party atmosphere this week!  Let's see...we need entertainment.  Who will sing for us?  Play the piano?  Strum a guitar?  Recite some poetry?  Preach for us?  Pray for us?  Give praise for us?  Hunh? 

Poetry?

We have a resident poet!

Hi Colin!

You going to write a poem for us?

   Good evening to all.    HAPPY  BIRTHDAY TO   CHRISTIAN  PHOTOGRAPHERS.

  It  is good to be here and it has been a very busy week at our house.    Thank the Lord for the strength that he gives us.  Today we had a woderful service at our church and we had some baptisims and it was so good to here their testimonies they were all so wonderful and so positive.  We had old and young people do this today.  Our message was from Colossians 3 1-4 and my nephew who is our associate pastor preached and I must say he did an excellent sermon.  Praise the Lord.

Well must go to sleep God bless each one and have a wonderful week.   Gord.

I'm here ......  And I'm ready to PARTEEEEE!

As Al remarked: it sure doesn't seem like it's been six years already.  This is a great place and filled with really wonderful friends .... and photographers, but I'm not part of that particular group.

All photographers, preformers, actors, etc.  need an audience .... and THAT'S ME!!    

I can ooohhh and aaahhhh really well, y'know.

Well I give it a try but I think Al should write a poem! Etta Sue has the right idea..she is bringing the cakes! You are my kinda girl Etta and come on Jane....oooohing an aaaahing is ok but we want a party piece from you! God bless. 

Remember the Indians doing rain dances???  Well, I think you guys are reveling so much that it is SNOWING in Indiana!  Yep!  Ya heard right.  SNOW!  And so much rain in the last 24 hours!  Dark and gloomy.  The snow isn't sticking.  Not actually snow..not white flakes...white rain!  Does that make sense?  More like sleet than snow but it is only 31 degrees and only suppose to get to 35 degrees today.  

But party on...I am anxious to what else you can cause here in Indiana!!!  

Today Ivalou, Jane, Betty and I are going to Jim Dandy restaurant with a group of old folks from church!  We are them also!  Then this evening is a council meeting at church.  I am not a very good council member...I have missed two meetings since Christmas...  Once when it was changed to the second Monday and I have Photo Guild...last month when I was in Florida!  

Party on!  And thanks Colin for that great poem!  We need dancers, too!  Where's Marilyn?  

Something weird.  I couldn't post until I put something in the subject line!  So I put 'Subject' and posted!!  Thick rain causing cyberspooks?

Thanks for the poem, Colin!

I just knew you'd come through with one.  We have a whole week so maybe you'll even think of more during the week!

Yes, it's been six years and yes, we've see folks come and go and then some have come back!  And that's wonderful.

But our purpose on this site is to glorify Christ.

Hi everyone and Happy Birthday to Christian Photographers.  While I didn't know of this site initially, Pat contacted me and invited me to participate.  Like Jane my interests are not photography oriented but I have come to care very much about all the folks who post here.  

Yesterday our choir performed our Easter Cantata and, as usual, our director got a good performance from us.  The soloists were very good and the choir held up their part. I hope we got a good recording of it.

Pat and I didn't go out to lunch with the group as they were going to a place we really don't care to go.  Rather, we came home and changed clothes and went up to our local Mexican place and shared a full order of nachos with half chicken and half beef.  They were good.

Today is my normal Monday luncheon with a group of men friends.  Today we are going to a buffet so will be able to have a great salad and whatever else strikes my fancy.  It is not an expensive place but the food has always been good.  

It is windy and chilly here this morning, only 48 degrees, and the paper says we may have some snow during the night and it is only to be 45 degrees here tomorrow.  Time to put the electric blanket back on the bed.

Colin, thanks for the special poem for the great occasion we are celebrating.

Pat, thank you for starting and sustaining this website.  I certainly appreciate it.

 :)Good day to all.   Thank you Colin for your great poem and we do miss you being on the site so don't be shy and come more often

Pat.  Hope all is well and that you and Paul are keeping healthy.  Love ya sis.

Larry:  You always sound like you are busy and that is a good thing.  May the bless you and Pat and give you much strength.  God bless.

To all others have a wonderful day.

Thanks everyone! By the way..Pat did not say...with your wit, charm and skill....but it sounded good to me and using poetic licence...I just put in..so there!

I'll play the piano! 

Happy birthday to the site, and thank you to everybody who is involved in keeping it running!

Here's a nice renditioln of Psalm 23

Although I have not participated for awhile I still glance at the photo's of everyone.  It is interesting how God gives us all a different view on the same subject, yet on the gospel we can also find common views Amen!
         Keep up the great work everyone, may God allow us to capture the beauty of his creation, and glorify him in the images that we share with others........

          Rev. LarryBoy

Thank you for visiting, Larry.  Hope you are taking some photos of birds for our next challenge! 

Talk to you soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvbNlCkw72Y

Ok Pat...maybe you can fix this up so all the dial up ones can see it! This is just a selection of the people who belong to this wonderful site and no one is left out intentionally....I tried to get as many pictures as possible!

A poem and now a video and music....think I will take a rest! Any cake left Etta Sue?

How neat, Colin!

Here I am: I was in California for the weekend for  forest's 9th birthday party, I got back at 6 last night.

Friday night we had a  little excitement here. I was getting ready for bed , the dogs were in there with me and the cat wanted in too. So I opened the door and picked up the cat, he spotted Bebe standing there and  with all his claws  wide open he took a flying leap out of my hands ripping flesh as he went.  It took ½ roll of paper towels and we still didn't get the bleeding stopped, but I did get a good look at my wounds and told Keith I better have stitches.

He got the car half way out of the garage and told me it would probably be a 3 hour wait to be seen, so I decided to just wait and see if I could get the bleeding stopped. We wrapped  my two little fingers up in large bandaids put more on the back of my right hand and the sides of both hands and I went to bed.

On Saturday I went a head with my plans to go to California and had Sarah, (My DIL and nurse) take a look and fix me up. She got me all fixed up with the bandages I purchased on the way south. You might make a note of the following:

She told me never never never use peroxide to clean a wound. You know how peroxide makes you skin white well that is the dermis dying. She said you can use alcohol but that burn a lot so to use the Betadine or the Iodine  mixture that surgeons use to paint on before and after surgery to clean a wound. She also said that peroxide and cause and feed a staph infection,.

The birthday party was fun, the kids and all the adults except for us 2 grandma's played laser tag. Forest insisted  on my riding in the front seat of the truck and that I should sleep in his bedroom. We went out to dinner on Saturday night, man is it ever expensive to take a family out to dinner.

Al we went to the Six Rivers Brewery  for dinner, they have pretty good food there.

Hello everyone.    This morning we woke to winter wet snow and lots of it, I am so glad that I could just stay in watch.   

I just got around to catching up on the past days entries Happy Birthday to CP
Pat:   I needed your hymns to help heal my soul.  Late Saturday evening I got a very very disturbing phone call  and as a result I spent the evening and most of Sunday in tears, perhaps it was meant to happen as I feel that I have been given freedom to make changes as the Lord guides.

We had a late lunch but we both are feeling a little hungry so time to have a look in the frig.

Pat:  How is Judy M.

God is forever good.      Ruth

For everyone at CP ... 

That's beautiful, Jane.  To me, friendship is possibly the most satisfying and delightful relationships amongst humanity.  Even the marriage relationship is enhanced when the partners are friends - which is not always the case.  Friends bless friends.

Happy 6th anniversary especially to those who established this website and help keep it going!

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I forgot to mention how once in a while, a photo takes on a meaning of its own.  This picture of the crosses is one of those!  I was recently asked to provide a series of pictures with Scripture to be used for an upcoming 2010 calendar.  My wife and I were taking a road trip and discussing which pictures to use for the calendar.  She asked if I had any pictures that would have an Easter theme and I mentioned that I did not.  She suggested a picture of a cross, so we kept our eyes open as we traveled.  As it turned out, I saw these crosses in front of a church along the highway in Lake George, CO, on our return trip, so we pulled over.  Excitedly, I grabbed our digital camera (Canon A80).  I was "in the zone", trying different angles, taking advantage of the beautiful late afternoon sunlight.  The camera has a flipout, adjustable viewscreen and the thought occured to me to bend low and take a picture from ground level.  I knelt before the crosses to take advantage of this angle, when suddenly, it dawned on me that I was kneeling before the crosses.  I had to stop a minute as I considered how I was actually doing what had been mentioned by our pastor the night before at the Saturday evening service - I was actually kneeling before the cross!  What an incredible blessing as I considered what it would have been like to kneel before the nail-pierced, pain-racked feet of Jesus on the cross, then looking up into his grimacing, yet forgiving eyes. 

I hope this picture brings at least some of the blessing and inspiration to you that it did to me as I took it! 

Happy Good Friday and Easter!

(PS:  I used a "firelight" filter in my photo editing software to make the reds, oranges and yellows.)

Thank you Jerry!

It's so nice to see your post.

Thanks so much for the lovely reminder of our Savior who died on the Cross for us shedding His precious blood.  We'll be thinking especially of this wonderful event this weekend too.

Thanks so much!

Jerry's wonderful message to us reminded me of this hymn: