What a fantastic wedding season it has been! I don't think my wife or I anticipated just how busy we would be. It has been so cool to celebrate with all the awesome couples we have photographed so far this year. As it is our first year of marriage, it’s like every wedding has been a continued celebration for life and love. We have been so busy traveling, shooting, editing, and building the business and I want to thank everyone who has been a part of this, from couples to friends for their encouraging support.
We have featured a lot of weddings over the summer on this blog but I do not want to lose sight of the mission of The Artistic Vision. Those of you who know us personally will know why our slogan is Beauty, Life, Love, Hope, but for those who are curious I would like to spend a little time on the last one: Hope.
Every day I witness these beautiful ceremonies and couples, whether shooting or editing, I always remember how blessed I am to be a part of this. We witness the sanctity of marriage and the holiness of love and every wedding has a happy ending. There is no greater joy that we witness because we believe that weddings are the reflections of the Great Wedding that will happen between Christ and His Church – and because of this we have a greater understanding of marriage.
And every time I remember how fortunate I am, I am always convicted by the words Jesus spoke, “ For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more”. Because of all this good that we experience, I feel that it would be incomplete, amiss, or even wrong not to give away proportionally what we have been given.
We are striving to build the business and better ourselves as photographers, and as we grow we equally strive to become better stewards of the widows, orphans, justice, poverty, and the sphere of influence the Lord has given us. I cannot help but remember the orphans of Colombia whom we saw a couple of years ago. Though the time we had with them was brief, they continue to make our hearts ache because they are iconic to all the orphans and all the injustice this world contains. We continue to try to do what we can, even though sometimes it feels like it has had very little impact, we know that it is building something bigger than this business. There are two things from The Artistic Vision that will outlive us and these two things we make every effort to produce excellence: your wedding pictures will outlive our days and for this reason we will do everything to the best of our ability to produce excellent results; the second is providing hope and serving justice to those who are less fortunate. The latter will outlast even your photos.
I will leave you with this story that hopefully will keep us all accountable to the mission.
We have featured a lot of weddings over the summer on this blog but I do not want to lose sight of the mission of The Artistic Vision. Those of you who know us personally will know why our slogan is Beauty, Life, Love, Hope, but for those who are curious I would like to spend a little time on the last one: Hope.
Every day I witness these beautiful ceremonies and couples, whether shooting or editing, I always remember how blessed I am to be a part of this. We witness the sanctity of marriage and the holiness of love and every wedding has a happy ending. There is no greater joy that we witness because we believe that weddings are the reflections of the Great Wedding that will happen between Christ and His Church – and because of this we have a greater understanding of marriage.
And every time I remember how fortunate I am, I am always convicted by the words Jesus spoke, “ For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more”. Because of all this good that we experience, I feel that it would be incomplete, amiss, or even wrong not to give away proportionally what we have been given.
We are striving to build the business and better ourselves as photographers, and as we grow we equally strive to become better stewards of the widows, orphans, justice, poverty, and the sphere of influence the Lord has given us. I cannot help but remember the orphans of Colombia whom we saw a couple of years ago. Though the time we had with them was brief, they continue to make our hearts ache because they are iconic to all the orphans and all the injustice this world contains. We continue to try to do what we can, even though sometimes it feels like it has had very little impact, we know that it is building something bigger than this business. There are two things from The Artistic Vision that will outlive us and these two things we make every effort to produce excellence: your wedding pictures will outlive our days and for this reason we will do everything to the best of our ability to produce excellent results; the second is providing hope and serving justice to those who are less fortunate. The latter will outlast even your photos.
I will leave you with this story that hopefully will keep us all accountable to the mission.
"The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry. ' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
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