I returned from Guatemala not too long ago. What a beautiful experience. God's work was everywhere.

The first evening before bed, hugs went around like beautiful treasures at a Thanksgiving table. The first photo will show you the faces behind the hugs. Those hugs filled me up and I slept that evening like I have not done in years.

The hugs continued on all week...

When getting up in the morning and walking out to get some breakfast, "little" Good Morning voices came from different places along the way filling my heart with sweetness. What a beautiful walk to breakfast.

Steve and Pam English have been missionaries at LaSenda for 18 years. Seeing what has been accomplished fills you with what God's love has done with the helping hands of caring people. Please take a look at The World Our World Parish. www.twop.org Donate or sponsor a child!

On the last day, before going to breakfast, while taking the trash down to the trash receptacle, a little hand took the trash from my hand and we walked together hand in hand to get the job done. Instead of holding on to the trash, I was able to hold the hand of a sweet little boy. That filled my soul. Those same hands had held mine the night before at church services.

The remaining images are dessert~~

We are all Orphans one way or Another? In a Sense...

Orphan: one who has had some protection or advantage taken away

We are all orphans in one way or another either partially or completely for many different reasons. It does not feel so good does it? There is a yearning to fill painful voids when they occur.

Imagine being orphaned by both parents as a child.

I will be leaving November 7 on a trip to LaSenda orphanage in Guatemala with a group from Bee Creek United Methodist Church. The orphans at LaSenda have had the disadvantage of both parents being taken away at an early age for various reasons. They are now in the protective arms of God and LaSenda orphanage, a Christian based establishment headed up by Steve and Pam English. www.twop.org Please click and take a look around.

I will be helping with everything I can! Photography, cooking, cleaning, painting, and playing with the children to name a few. I am so fortunate to be able to do this and gather more memories for my own personal hard drive... images only your mind can capture. I will also have images to share with the help of a camera.

I only have one week to help at LaSenda. Only one week of my time and energy. It is too short. I know because I also traveled to Northern Vietnam on a medical mission in 2008 with www.gsmedicalministry.org I wanted to do more after ~3 weeks and still do.

The mission with Good Samaritan Medical Mission changed my life and gave me a richness that cannot be obtained any other way. Giving is the richness. For the segment of time you give you get back exponentially. It is a "sense"about you only obtained by the experience... you can't measure it like counting a pile of money. No amount of money can buy that richness.

I hope to become one of the richest woman in the world.

I am attaching some photos or my riches captured on film. I can't attach them all because there is not enough room in cyberspace! There are many more in mind but those you will never see but you might get a "sense" from me...

Love to all of you!

LA

Life is a Threshold

I truly believe there is a threshold to everything.

The definition of threshold:

(1) : end, boundary; specifically : the end of a runway (2) :the place or point of entering or beginning

Everything Has a Threshold

Literally, we experience it every time we walk through doorways or jump out of airplanes* and figuratively, when we try something new. At first it is very exciting. Awhile into it, it becomes a chore. But, if you make it through the threshold, the end becomes the beginning. It is like learning a new language. Day after day you practice and then what seems like "all at once" you become fluent. I watched this occur when my son learned to read. All of a sudden his ability took off and there was no looking back.

Maybe it all ties into fear. Fear holds us back. It keeps us from going through the entrance. Instead we stay at the end of the runway. Like walking along the shore instead of diving in and seeing all there is to see. "Leap and the net will appear."(A Zen Saying) *I don't know about a net but the parachute opened.

Fear of success maybe... If there is success, then what? Astronauts must feel like that after returning from a mission.

I take pictures of many different types of thresholds. Marriage, engagements, graduations, award ceremonies, babies and mile markers with children, launching of products, book jacket and CD covers ... Those images are a documentation of thresholds. Some are yours and some are mine.

Attached are what I believe to be very significant thresholds.

Have a beautiful weekend!

L A Scott Photography Austin Texas: "Shells"

L A Scott Photography Austin Texas: "Shells"

"Shells"

When walking on the beach in North Carolina last week I photographed a picture of these shells(1st image). The reminded me of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's. "Gift From the Sea." Beautiful inspiring book about life. She relates shells to the people in your life collected along the way. Life's treasures. Your shells.

We all have our shell collections. Mine gets bigger all the time. I am including pictures of some of my shells and other people's shells. Unfortunately, some shells only stay in our collection for a short while and others are there for a lifetime...

Have a beautiful day my shells!

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Shoot4Change

L A Scott Photography is catching up on blogging! Here is an article featured at Shoot4Change. It is a group of photographers from around the world that report on stories that might go without notice but stories that need to be exposed! Click above and see an entry from L A Scott Photography after a trip to Nortern Vietnam as part of a medical mission in 2008. It is a glimpse into how that part of world since the Vietnam war.

Event Photography!!

Just recently did event photography for THBI Inc. Click on http://www.thbi.com/luminary-dinner-2011/ for examples of event photography!

Keep www.lascottphotography in mind for your event photography needs!