A Prairie Stroll

After an awesome morning of appointments and meetings it was very relaxing to just go create an image with a model. Some folks golf, me I do this. Thanks Jesi Ostrowsky! Though I lost over pint of blood to the mosquitoes it was worth the pain. They only ate me for some reason. Oh joy! That also meant she was able to keep a natural smile on her face. I can't wait to see what we'll do next!

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The First Dance!

They said they weren't going to dance alone. No first dance? I'm glad they decided to! I would have missed seeing this happiness.

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So It Rained? So What?

It was a perfect day to celebrate a union.

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No Filters Needed

Model: Jesi Ostrowsky
Location: A beach in a lake filled with all sorts of crap... really.
Lens: One of my favs, the Canon EF135mm f/2.0L.
Filters and other special effects to compensate for not knowing how to use my camera: friggin ZERO.


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Happy Birthday!

Yesterday after an awesome morning photo shoot at the Temple I had a second one with @jesifit.fitness.yoga. While most of our time was spent driving around (slowly, and in the wrong lane at times) while we scouted out locations, it was a really great way to spend the day. Eventually we did take a few photos resulting in one that I think works well. It's also the last photo of the session, taken from the first angle she suggested. It's so so awesome to have a creative partner with vision. As a bonus, it was also her birthday!

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The Clarity of Practicing the Dharma

Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche, previously known as His Holiness Sakya Trizin, conducted a teaching today at Deer Park Buddhist Center & Monastery. I had the very special honor of photographing it. It was a one of the best shoots I have done in a very long time. Given permission to truly move about the Temple while he spoke I did my best to not be too distracting. His words were simple, to the point and I found a profound sense of well being and understanding waken in me. As he spoke I was close by on my knees at one point. The way he phrased our tendency to cling to the inconsequential in our lives, and to place importance on what are fleeting moments of essentially nothing as "tiny bubbles" which could suddenly burst, leaving us with emptiness really struck me. At one point I was brought to tears, which made photographing things a bit of a challenge. Thankfully I was able to slip to the back of the Temple to clear my vision. And in someways that is exactly what happened to me today. I have a clearer sense of how I want to go about tending to my spiritual needs.

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Greeting His Holiness

Ngawang Kunga, Sakya Trizin Emeritus (now known as Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche) is greeted on his first visit to Deer Park Buddhist center & Monastery just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. He is considered to be second only to the Dalai lama in the spiritual hierarchy of Tibetan Buddhism. His lineage is an ancient one, and he is thought of as the very personification of the Wisdom of the Buddha. I had the absolute honor of being asked to come photograph his arrival, and this intimate greeting in his quarters by the monks of Deer Park. I cannot wait to go photograph his upcoming teaching session at the Temple! When I needed to learn more about compassion the Dalia Lama himself appeared in my life a few years ago. At a time when I know I need to bolster my wisdom, and I've been writing about my sense that it's time to transform again, the Buddha again appears. How is so that I find myself in the presence of just the sort of knowledge and guidance just when I need it? I am truly blessed. I can no longer take it for granted but will embrace this opportunity. I didn't need to go climb frozen mountains in Asia to find this resource. I simply moved to Wisconsin of all places and it was here waiting for me.

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