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flickr’d photos: billy

billy was my closest friend back home… he helped lead the addiction recovery ministry when i came to the church with only a couple weeks clean time and was a huge help to me… as time went by, we became not only close friends but partners in both that ministry as well as working with the homeless…
billy is known as a bit of a cartoon character come to life – lively and a little eccentric, definitely someone you remember after only having spent a few minutes with him… he is outgoing and talkative, making friends where ever he goes – always the one talking to new people at church or even just in line at wal-mart, he is incapable of keeping to himself…

one day, a year or so ago, he came over for coffee and we hung out on my balcony and talked and i snapped a hundred or more pics… these are my favorite three…

firstly, here is a glimpse at his more upbeat, whimsical side as we had a good time…

billy 5

but, we also discussed serious issues…

billy 1

and, this one is just billy to me… i don’t think i could have a better picture of him – this is the man i know and love… always a smile, but i know how much is under there and i see all of it here… this one is framed in my bedroom…

billy 2

when i showed these to billy and his wife, tara, billy made the comment (on more than one of them) that he had never seen that side of himself before… that is the biggest compliment a person can give me when i shoot them… because to me it says that i did it right – that they are seeing them the way i see them… that i managed to capture what i saw… and that’s what it is all about to me – why i love photography so much… you can see something or someone so many times, but then someone with the gift can photograph it and you can see it in a way you never have, even if you had stood at that same spot or seen the same moment… or you can see, frozen in time, something you HAVE seen before, so many times, but it was always fleeting and an artist knows just when to snap that shutter to catch what can be missed in a blink…
the ART is first to see and then to be able to capture what you see…

i am still trying to learn both :P


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1 comment to flickr’d photos: billy

  • me

    Once again my dearest friend, looking at these pictures gives me hope again of who I am and what I used to look like. I not only forgot what you look like. I forgot what I looked like. I thank the lORD JESUS CHRIST for your gifts that a so unique and awesome. Right now I needed to see me again. Thank you Christopher. God uses you in a mighty mighty way to help His children have hope when it seems hopeless. Keep on doing what your doing.
    P.S. I cant wait to see you and hug you. BILLY

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