Photography
is not my profession. It is my passion.
Photography
is my escape, my high, my drug, if you will. I believe if
you look, really look, you will find beauty in all
things. I have often been told that I see things
different than most. I prefer rather to think that I look
at things differently than most. For we all basically see
the same things. To look takes time. Time most are not
willing to give. It is easy to stop and smell the roses
but it takes a little more effort to look, really look at
the roses. God’s beauty is overly abundant not only
in the rose itself but in the petals, bud, leaves, stem
and stalk… but only if you look, really look.
I had an early interest in photography but my interest were beyond the normal family snapshots and since money was tight these photos existed only in my eyes. In my senior year at Louisiana Tech University I took a photography class as a requirement for my major. On the last day of class my professor told me that I was his best student and sadly I wasn’t one of his photography majors. Until that moment I had never thought that photography could be a career option for me and sadly it was too late. Realty kicked in… graduation, a job and life itself.
God gave me many gifts and talents. I take little credit here. I just attempt to capture God’s beauty and hold that moment in time so that others can experience that moment too. I want you to hear the music I hear when the wind softly blows thru a field of wildflowers or a raindrop falls gently to the earth. I want you to feel the softness of a rose petal or the fur of a tiger. I want you to sense the warmth of the sunshine or the crisp winter air. I want you to taste the sea salt and smell the fragrance of the flowers. I want you to experience the joy, sorrow, and hope I experience when I click the shutter.
Today I stand at the crossroads. I am not sure where God will lead me but I have goals. My short-term goals are to improve my skills in photography so that viewers of my photographs see and feel God’s great glory thru my eyes. I am also searching for that extra something that makes my photographs unique and that will draw the viewer back time and again. Long-term, I would love to some day see my work hanging in a gallery but for now my website is my gallery to the world.
I encourage you to find silence. Silence where you hear only the beating of your heart, perhaps with a little Mozart or Bach. Only then browse through my galleries. For it is in this silence that you will truly experience what I am.
Deidre McNamara
I had an early interest in photography but my interest were beyond the normal family snapshots and since money was tight these photos existed only in my eyes. In my senior year at Louisiana Tech University I took a photography class as a requirement for my major. On the last day of class my professor told me that I was his best student and sadly I wasn’t one of his photography majors. Until that moment I had never thought that photography could be a career option for me and sadly it was too late. Realty kicked in… graduation, a job and life itself.
God gave me many gifts and talents. I take little credit here. I just attempt to capture God’s beauty and hold that moment in time so that others can experience that moment too. I want you to hear the music I hear when the wind softly blows thru a field of wildflowers or a raindrop falls gently to the earth. I want you to feel the softness of a rose petal or the fur of a tiger. I want you to sense the warmth of the sunshine or the crisp winter air. I want you to taste the sea salt and smell the fragrance of the flowers. I want you to experience the joy, sorrow, and hope I experience when I click the shutter.
Today I stand at the crossroads. I am not sure where God will lead me but I have goals. My short-term goals are to improve my skills in photography so that viewers of my photographs see and feel God’s great glory thru my eyes. I am also searching for that extra something that makes my photographs unique and that will draw the viewer back time and again. Long-term, I would love to some day see my work hanging in a gallery but for now my website is my gallery to the world.
I encourage you to find silence. Silence where you hear only the beating of your heart, perhaps with a little Mozart or Bach. Only then browse through my galleries. For it is in this silence that you will truly experience what I am.
Deidre McNamara