I became the team’s photographer, so it became my team. I carried the portable studio in my Dodge Caravan, which were in varying sized vinyl boxes; the tripod unit alone was in a three-foot by one-foot-by-one-foot box. On the roof was a large cylindrical tube that went out beyond the front of the roof to the edge of the front windshield and just beyond the back roof carrying studio backdrops. I was just getting adjusted to my new role, I was sent to the Quad Cities in Iowa for a two-day shoot. I was hopeful for good sales. I went to bed hoping tomorrow was going to be great.
When I woke up and turned on the television, as it was showing what looked like a bad airplane disaster movie. Turning the channel without paying attention to it, only to find the same movie. It dawned on me, it was not a movie. It was the news whose cameras had focused on the World Trade Center. I watched it …show more content…
In 1988, “The Last Temptation of Christ” came out to a field of protests by people who took a stand without examining what they were denouncing. I went to see it, in a rare visit to a theater with my father. So many sacrilegious things were supposed to be in the movie were not. My father taught me to recognize that one person’s ‘truth’ was not necessarily factual. I realized, upon reflection, how people, sincere Christians can let their fear of the secular world to prevent them from seeing beyond that