Soulumination.org

I am one of the photographers who donates their time and photos to families that have a loved one who is facing a life threatening condition, through an organization called Soulumination. It is an amazing organization. I found the organization on Facebook, and felt compelled to help. Unfortunately, or fortunately (?) I have not had many opportunities to help. If you know of someone who could be of a resource for me to contact, to get the word out, I'd really appreciate it, and I'm sure the families that would like to participate would appreciate it also. Below is an excerpt from Soulumination's website. Soulumination's focus is primarily children, but they will help with adult illness's also.

I donate my time to take the pictures, and they donate (and have donors who give product and help) making beautiful albums and gifts from the photos.

www.soulumination.org

Soulumination, founded by Lynette Huffman Johnson, celebrates the lives of children and parents facing life threatening conditions by providing professional photographs--free of charge--of these special individuals and their families. The life-affirming photographs of Soulumination are an enduring, positive record of the child's brief life, and provide a loving legacy for the children of parents lost to terminal illness.

Snow in the year 2010

When it snows i feel as though i am transported back into time, into the 1940's. Even more strange is the fact that i feel connected to the 40's...why not the 1800's? or 1987? or the 70's? it snowed then too! nope. it's the 40's. It makes me want to put my vintage sweater on, clip my bangs off to the side, with a little finger wave touch to my curls, sip hot cocoa, and even daydream about tobogganing. It's not just this past week that i felt that, when we had a touch of snow, it's been that way for me for as long as i can remember! it makes me want to watch old movies, ride in old cars. i don't even mind that my place is 50 degrees inside, because to some degree, i feel as though i am again, transported back into time, during a less fortunate time for some. wood or coal may not have been as accessible as the local 7-11 bundles down the street.

maybe it's partly due to the fact that the snow softens and quiets things. rush hour sounds like an ocean. the engines are quieted, and all the modern day clutter and trash in peoples yards are neutralized in white. it's hard to say what year that car covered in snow is...

i've always been nostalgic, an old soul of sorts, but for whatever reason, when it snows, i daydream of that time, of a simple, less complicated, and less rushed life.

my new blab, er blog.

I am one of the lucky few business owners that the PR/Media dept. at WWU used as sample businesses to promote. Thank you, to Jeremy Reed, Shauna Plummer, Melissa Reynolds & Caitlin Morgan for all the work they did designing brochures, postcards, radio ads, viral ads, a business facebook page and this blog!

Where do i take this blog from here? hmm. that will be determined on a daily basis i guess. For now, I only have one follower, and she is the one who created it (: so i guess it doesn't really matter what i say. lol.

Thanks Shauna for being my first follower! you guys did a GREAT job!

Allow me to introduce myself.

Hi! My name is Kimberly Miner and I am a photographer in the beautiful Walla Walla valley in Washington state. I love photography.
There is nothing so rewarding as sharing in someone elses' life experiences. I don't focus on posed pictures as much as capturing what is naturally happening, and much prefer to get out and take real pictures of my clients living their real lives. You can't buy authenticity like that.

I believe there is more beauty in any one moment of reality than all the airbrushed posed pictures in the world.

Life is an impermanent thing and as such must be grasped with both hands and both eyes wide open. This is mine: Through my lens.