"Sometimes I get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

Ansel Adams

PaTH Photography is a name designed to give a word to and capture the idea of my own particular photography methodology. "Serendipity" was considered but rejected because it too greatly conveyed the idea of chance and luck. Nothing happens by accident. God is in control of everything, so chance and luck have nothing to do with anything. The quote above from Ansel Adams accurately describes how incredible photo opportunities just seem to happen when I'm ready to take a picture. Hence PaTH - Pictures as Things Happen - because God is always making things happen and I am sometimes observant enough to notice and energetic enough to point a camera and release the shutter. (There are other meanings of PaTH but this is the significance of the acronym.)

A great many resources available that help one develop a technique of photography or enhance the technique one already has. I have studied many of them and am impressed by the time and effort that professional photographers put into their works. At this point in my life I am unable to do the same for the following reasons:

~ I am a husband

~ I am a father

~ I have a job as an IT specialist

I have things to do, by times too many things. I don't have the time available to give to photography that professional photographers must. But then, I'm not making money at it either. For me, using a camera, any camera, is pure joy. My philosophy of photography is essentially to take Pictures as Things Happen. If something that seizes my attention I will try to take a picture or six...if there is time and the people I'm with aren't leaving me behind (too far). I don't usually stop the car to take a picture or wait for hours for a scene to be perfect. I will position and re-position my camera to get the photograph I've been inspired to take but I am primarily a photographer of opportunity, a photographer of the moment. I can do this because God has given me a very good life and I have leisure to enjoy things that too many others in this world do not have.

Too often life is so busy being lived that an opportunity for a good photograph must be overlooked. This is sad because some very good photos never see the light of day. This is also very good because it means I'm with people I love and who love me. Not a bad trade. Since photography is neither more nor less than an expression of my delight in the world God lets us inhabit, I can afford to just take the picture that makes me happy. I don't have anyone to please but God and myself.

The pictures you see here are my attempt to recapture the joy of living and to show that even the day-to-day events of life have their beauty. God's glory is revealed in all things and by all things He is, or will be praised...as things happen.