After much encouragement from friends and especially Ben, I've started a little hobby business making cards with some of the photographs I've taken at Bellingrath Gardens and other places. I've set up a blog to display the available designs.
The name of the business is Clearly Scene which is taken from one of my favorite scriptures, Romans 1:20:
“For since the beginning of the world God’s invisible qualities...have been clearly seen,being understood from what has been made..."
When I was in college I took a course called "Drawing from Nature" in which we walked around campus and drew studies of different plants and animals and learned about what we drew. It was a great course which mostly taught me to observe the beauty of everyday things around me. And one of the greatest lessons I learned in that course, which was not on the syllabus, was that creation is screaming "There is a creator!".
As I walked around campus one day, I picked up a petal that had fallen to the ground and looked at it very carefully - the beauty of it, the intricate detail and pattern in one simple petal. I thought to myself "How can anyone say this happened by accident?". Several people have asked me if being a biology major in college didn't conflict with my Christian faith. But I never found that to be true. . . the things I studied in biology and chemistry only testified to me of our Great God who is so concerned with even the smallest details in His creation.
