Do I have talent?

Here are some of my top photos that I have taken and would love to know what you think?!
Please comment back and read the post below too, it's also new.

on the up side

I would like to thank you all for your support spoken and unspoken.
It's helps

Soooo maybe Haiti just isn't the place for me to be right now and I've come to terms with that fact. It was just so hard to hear that news over the summer...where it seems that good news would never come my way. Working in a church, helping Sophie-Ann and her family dealing with leukemia, my dad falling off a cliff and breaking his back -it was just a hard one.

but the clouds are parting and the sun is coming out once again. I'm going to go to England and see my Aunt Lee Ann and some friends. I also just got a job working for a photographer. I'm going to edit all her pictures and pick up a few tips along the way. This job just fell out of the sky and into my lap wrapped in a pretty ribbon.

This job is such a blessing because the next step in my life is to truly focus on photography. I've found that I have a talent and a natural eye for it. I've always been interested but once I came back from Haiti and people started to look at my pictures I was amazed that they started to ask about buying prints.

I will go back......I promise. I miss Haiti like crazy and thought about it alot when I saw you-you's moon shining bright orange through my window.

What do you do?

What do you do when a door closes? You wait for a window to open.

The door to Haiti is closed. I've had lots of doors close before but never has it hurt like this. The pain is more then just getting your fingers or toes caught, more like your heart slammed and broken into two pieces. Half of my heart is still in Haiti and it will always be there.

I asked to go back to the orphanage and was declined.

This news came three weeks ago and yet every time I think about this fact it still hurts like the first time I read those words. This doesn't mean that I will never go back but it will be at least a year before I will go back, back to St. Joe's with Deb.

This hurts and I'm sad. I keep thinking about what wonderful blessings this summer has brought to the orphanage -new children, the medical clinic and much more. How I wish I was going back to see how the children have grown, to see you-you's new cats and sink, to see the clinic, jimmy and junior.

so what do you do when the door has closed? I keep walking back to try the handle and see if the door is unlocked. I'm not ready to give up. Yet, I guess you'll never find the open window unless you look for it.

bravo to Carsen and Anne for the time they can give to the o, and to all the mom's and dad's going. Give them an extra hug from me the next time you go, especially Steven.