BEST PERSONAL INVESTMENTS

Week Two; Theme: "Treasure"

"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:20-21 (NIV)

Money can buy you a dog, but it could never buy you a relationship with him. That can only come from a personal investment of time and love. I treasure my relationship with my three "boys" more than anything else, and I know that they all feel the same way about me.

This shoot was significantly more challenging than last week! And, like last week, I'm not even close to satisfied with my end result. I wanted to do color since I did mono last week, so I was needed to do it in the small window of time when everyone was at home and there was still sunlight. Not to mention that trying to coordinate three subjects and getting them all to do what I wanted at the same time was harder than I bargained for. But they all know me well and did their best to endure my obscure and unhelpful instructions, and everyone still had all their appendages at the end, so hooray!

I get to have lunch meetings with people every week, and this one was special. This is my friend, John, who has been making a personal investment in my life since 1989, almost 20 years.

We were in the Panera on York Rd in Baltimore, and the place was packed with the lunch-time crowd. (If you're checking, I had an Asiago Roast Beef sandwich with the chips swapped out for a large fruit cup and a diet Pepsi with fresh lemons.)

This was the best of two shots I took, putting my camera on my Gorillapod on my side of the round table, setting it to two-person portrait mode with the 10 second timer on and then running around the table to get into the shot.

Some people were amused, some people thought we were crazy - just like life!

First in a series.