I heard about Flashes of Hope through the lovely photographer Adair Freeman, she and I have not officially met but had exchanged a few emails about photography and East Nashville in the past, so when she asked me to shoot at Vanderbilt in August I was so honored to participate. As a former teacher and all round fan of kids.. nothing can prepare you for the love and honesty LITTLES offer up in a photo session, especially the ones who are forced travel a difficult path..it's humbling.. thankful to have gotten to enjoy a moment of fun in what would've been another day at the clinic .. and to their amazing parents and Dr.'s and nurses.. you are the real deal. All the love...
What is your deeply buried gift? Don’t think it’s not down there. It is. Something is going to help it rise to the surface. When I was a child, I dreamt of going to Hollywood and making movies. I remember specifically knowing what it must feel like to do that very thing, although I was in the middle of a rural ranchette in Texas. I carried around a video recorder the size of carry on luggage, which attached to a giant news station style camera, and I made movies. I can think of three or four different films that were lost forever in the 80’s. I remember shooting portraits of my cats sitting alongside cowboy hats, with a little 110 camera, and writing story after story and reading book after book. Talking into an old recorder with an English accent, singing at the top of my lungs as I played the piano. These are the snapshots of my childhood forty years ago. When I graduated from the theatre department at Baylor University, I was not ready emotionally and did...


















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