David and Sherry Buck – June 9, 2007
This past weekend I was privileged to be the photographer for David and Sherry Buck’s wedding. It was a really nice day and a great testimony of God’s working in their lives.
With the help of a number of our friends who helped with babysitting, Naomi was able to come along and be my assistant.
Stay tuned for more photos of the wedding sometime soon. We are going to be busy trying to prepare to leave for the Maritimes this week, so it might take a while.
From the headlines:
There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now…
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard pressed to keep up with it….
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. … The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
Wow.. sounds bad.
Friday, June 1 marked the last day of classes for the fifth class of students from our Canadian Word of Life Bible Institute. The students have completed 9 months of training and are now ready to really learn some lessons as counsellors at our summer camp! That is where the classroom stuff becomes real to them as they work with kids of all ages. Please pray for our students as they are on break and for their return in a couple of weeks for the start of summer camp. It has been a great year for our students and we are praying for many salvations from the camp’s evangelistic kids ministry!
Upcoming events for the Johnstones
Thanks for praying with/for us!
Troy & Naomi
Last week was last week of the academic part of our year, it was also the last week of formal wear. During the summer the office gets a bit more casual (read: shorts and t-shirt). So in honour of the last week of classes, I followed my annual tradition of Ugly Tie Week.
Ellie helping smooth my beautiful tie. People can’t help but touch this tie!
The Grocery Store Tie
While we were in Ottawa a couple weeks ago my D70 camera started having problems.. the main control dial stopped responding! I had to send my camera by overnight courier for service and was suddenly without a good means of taking pictures. It’s like taking a painters brush away, stripping a musician of his instruments, breaking the thumbs of a clay sculptor!! Ok, melodramatic, but you get the picture (no pun intended). I called a service rep at Nikon and told them about my camera, that I had a wedding to do photography for in two weeks and a trip to the Maritimes after that. The service rep wasn’t really sympathetic. He told me that they would look at the camera when it arrives and would call me within five weekdays to tell me how much it would cost to fix. After that it may take 4-6 weeks for the parts to come in, depending on the problem. GAH!!
I had a few frantic days trying to find an alternative camera for the wedding, wondering if it might be better to purchase a new camera than pay to fix a three year old one, etc, etc.. After 10 days I called Nikon to find out what was up, and they told me that they had just got the camera from their receiving department. My hopes fell for getting it back for my vacation.
The next day a box arrived from Nikon. I was shocked.. thinking that they must have sent it back without doing anything for some reason. But I opened the box, pulled out my fully functional camera and an invoice for $0. Dunno why, not gonna ask as the camera was beyond warrenty. Just thankful to have it back, especially in time for the wedding! Let the picture taking resume!
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In other photographic news I recently posted some photos of a strong storm on my flickr page. Normally my photos get a few views from friends and occasionally others who happen by them. Most of my photos have less than 50 views and the highest was around 260. I was therefore very surprised to check a few hours later and discover that the three storm photos were up over 250 views and climbing by about 5 a minute. By the end of the day they had reached 600.
Turns out a weather web site (http://natures-wrath.blogspot.com/) had discovered them and linked to my photos.
(click on an image for a larger view)
Dark Storm
Alberta Storm – This storm front moved in quickly from the mountains. I could see it coming for quite awhile and once it got close I was overwhelmed with it’s size and power. I had never seen such a clearly defined storm front before. It hit hard with thunder, lightning, hail and heavy rain. And then it was over as quick as it began..
Storm Front
Dark Line in the Sky