My Dad & the Money

As we are on a count down to Father’s Day I couldn’t help but share this image and memory of my dad.

We posed for this picture as we were preparing to go to Sunday Services! One thing about our family is we kept a camera near by so we capture images all throughout all of our lives. My father use to tell us that he was a “millionaire” Although I never saw any physical evidence of that he did provide us with allot of wisdom and understanding of this life we are living. As I think about my father (who passed away 22 years ago) I’m so very thankful of all of the knowledge that he dropped on us growing up.

So as I share this photo of myself and a couple of my brothers holding up some monetary bills I can still hear my father uttering the fact “I’m a Millionaire” and my response right now is ” We still need that loot dad”

Meet the Parents

On this day February 7, 2000 my father made his exit from the planet.  Thinking back over my life and my fondness of photography and the journey of capturing the world through the eyes of my lens came very natural to me seeing that all of our lives my parents always kept a camera and photograph candid moments all through our childhood and beyond. We even schedule family photo sessions at the nearest photo studio  for the professional photographs. As a teenager into adulthood I did the same thing always having a camera near to capture candid moments of our surroundings and photographing classmates at school! So today as I reflect on my dad and all the life lessons he brought myself  and siblings.I'm thankful that he left us fond memories and images that  told a tale of  time in our personal history. Today I honor you dad  and I thank you for the life lesson you taught me! 

Now many moons later I find myself as a photographer capturing memories not only for myself and family moments I’m now able to provide timeless memories for host of families that I’m given the pleasure to meet throughout the years. So thankful for my parents who with unspoken words instilled in us the importance of capturing personal histories of people through images. An image can truly be worth a thousand words. 

In Loving Memory of my Dad! -