If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine

Photography! Where do I begin? I just love it. It is the one thing that can preserve your memories and freeze moments in time. How many times have you gone through old photos, only to realize all of the amazing moments you had forgotten?Countless memories can be lost to time. Photography preserves those memories. It links all things together, everything created by God and man can be a work of art with a simple close of the shutter. Photography is not just a hobby, its art, passion, it's magical. Photography can take you into a world that is less traversed. 

The most amazing thing about a good photograph, is it doesn't have to be a difficult shot. Some of the most beautiful photographs are ones that capture scenes we see day to day, but don't take the time to look and appreciate.

As I have said before, I adore my family. I cherish every moment that I get to spend with them. At every get-together I try to have my camera in hand. Someday, all I may have is those memories, those wonderful pictures to look back on and see the faces of my dear loved ones. “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud

My favorite "subjects"to photograph are my nieces and nephews. They are so full of energy and spunk! Nothing sweeter than a newborn baby or the food stained grin of a toddler. My hope is that someday, they can look back at these pictures of their childhood and have fond memories of their Aunt Lizzy, camera in hand.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes, the best photographs don't need explaining. I've heard it said, "It's like a good joke, once explained, its not that funny." You either get it or you don't. Photography is the same way. You can look at a photograph and see it for face value, you can inspect it and critique it, looking for all of those inadequate flaws of an amateur photographer (which I very much am) or you can simply appreciate it for what it is, something special to someone, somewhere. Their memory, frozen, in time.

My hope is that long after I am gone my pictures will live on, impacting and inspiring others. Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."

Snake! I hate snakes! But I love this lil guy. He is so pretty!