exhibition

On Saturday our church had a talent exhibition. They called it "A Night at the MET--Mormons Exhibiting their Talents". The first part of the program was in the chapel and performers did Church and classical music numbers. I was quite impressed with some of the talent. Then there was an intermission and in half of the gym was a visual arts display--paintings, photography, that kind of thing. Then the last part of the program was in the other half of the gym and was all secular music. This one little boy totally blew us all away singing. He was probably 8 years old and had this fantastic voice. It was a really fun night. And I even decided to participate by displaying a few photographs. These have all made appearances before around here, but for all you new readers, I thought I'd post them again anyway.

New Mexico Wild Flowers, August 2007

Pioneer Day Grace, Utah, July 2007

Utah Mountains, July 2007

Jared in dry creek bed, North Carolina, October 2007

North Carolina Woods, October 2007

At the risk of tooting my own horn a little, I have to share something that totally made my night. After the program, Jared and I gathered up my photos to take home and were walking out of the gym when this man stopped us. He said, "Oh I haven't seen these yet. Will you show them to me?" Of course I did and he wanted me to explain each photo--where I took it, etc. He was really complimentary. Turns out he is a professional photographer. He has done some workshops and such for different things. It really made me feel good to have someone who knows what they are talking about compliment my photos. Because I am FAR from a professional. I've taken all of one photography class 4 years ago and don't even have a nice camera. I have so much to learn. It felt so good to be validated like that by someone who knows his stuff.