I'm back it took longer than I thought.

It is so hard to make time to sit in front of my computer and just write in this blog, there are so many other things that I like to do. It seems like every day brings a new challenge and today seems to have brought one of the biggest. I am not sure that I can pull it off but I am going to try. As I progress and things start to take shape, if it looks like it will work I'll blog about it but that's all I will say bout it for now. I often talk about things prematurely and when they don't work out people get disappointed. So let me tell you about something a little less exciting but still pretty cool to me. I have a gallery coming up real soon, it opens this week in Dayton. It will be at One Dayton Centre in downtown Dayton and it will be the most exposure that my work has ever had. I am praying that some of my pieces will sell, so that I can get some money saved up for my next missions trip. When I sell select pieces of my work, all of the profit goes into a fund to help pay for my missions work. So, if you happen to read this and you would want to take time to pray for me that would be great. My show will run throughout the month of October. I doubt that anybody ever reads this as I don't think too many people know about this blog. The only place I had a link to it was from my website, which is currently down for renovation. I hope to have a new site up soon, you can go to http://www.garyphillipsonline.com/ to check on my progress. If you go there any time soon what you see is probably not anything of mine. My web design team is supposed to have a message up that says something like "this site currently being remodelled check back soon for the new and improved http://www.garyphillipsonline.com/." But so far it just shows a generic template that is not what my site will look like. Hopefully you will soon see a new and improved site. Let me see if I can find a picture to post and maybe I will tell you the story behind it. Wait right there let me go look for an image, I'll be right back...........


O.K. so here is an image that I really like, I titled this one "Summer Days". This image of two little girls running onto a covered bridge is one of my favorites. It is actually two of my own daughters that I had out with me one day while I was shooting. They were so excited to visit this bridge that they just started running ahead of me. Of course being a photographer and these being my children I wanted to remember their excitement forever. So I started snapping off some shots and this particular frame is the one I most like of them. I am not sure exactly what it is that I like about this image over another but I really like feel of the image. I wanted to hang this in my home but I didn't really want just another photograph hanging up, I wanted it to feel more like a piece of artwork. I took the image into Photoshop and played around with it and this is how it turned out. I am really pleased with it now as a piece of art, not just another photograph. One of the things that I like about it is that it brings back memories of those carefree days of childhood. I hope if you are reading this, my image will bring back some good memories for you as well. I know that I will cherish this image for as long as I have breath.

Photoman