.:brian:.

This is Brian's work. After he took it, he showed it to me proudly and insisted I change it to my facebook picture.

My dear, sweet, wonderful husband knew long before I did that photography was definitely in my future. I had written it off, feeling I could never afford a DSLR let alone learn how to use it. I had given up picture taking because the little point and shoots could no longer do what I wanted. I needed something better, but couldn't afford it. Brian saw this but still continued to encourage me and snuck around with my family for months to find the perfect DSLR for my graduation present. Needless to say, when I opened up the present I was in absolute, utter shock. I cried. I've never had such a wonderful present. One of the things I cherish the most about Brian and our marriage is that he always believes in me in whatever I set my mind to doing. He is the greatest encourager I have ever known. He has been there since the very beginning, pushing me to make the leap together to make sure we got quality equipment, quality software, quality computers so that, as he always says, our equipment could keep up with the talent.

Wonderful, selfless Brian (who recently sold his music recording equipment to help in the purchase of another computer so that he could help more with the photography business).

Musical Brian who can play metal fills on the drums and mad guitar, creative Brian who suddenly comes back with a 6 minute fully orchestrated song that he wrote & produced in one day while avoiding writing his Honors thesis, sweet Brian who spoils our little kitties and takes care of them like they were his babies. Little did he know that he would eventually be joining me in the picture-taking process. First as the techie, putting his technical musical prowess into learning about photography & lighting equipment, and now learning--slowly-- the art of photography.

I'm proud of him. He's starting to be proud of him. Yesterday as we came home for lunch we sat on the couch, gazing at one another, giggling, and voicing out loud how we'd rather be at home snuggling than going back to work and suddenly he said "Wow, I wish I had a camera right now, this would be a beautiful photo... you're just gorgeous" (What a lucky woman I am to have a husband tell me a dozen times a day how beautiful I am!) So he ran to get a camera and shoot this one.

Not bad, if I do say so myself. I wish I looked this good in real life all the time! So here's to Brian and his budding photography skills.