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Thanksgiving Week

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Well this week has been a pretty adventurous week. I hope everyone gained 10lbs and slept a lot! This past Sunday I flew into D.C to go to my uncles for Thanksgiving and Monday morning we left to pick up my cousins that live in upstate New York. I am so glad that I do not live up there anymore! It was so cold up there, but it was worth every bit of the drive and being able to see them again. We had a great time hanging out and I am really going to miss them. Yesterday, for Thanksgiving, we had 21 of my family members at my uncles house, talk about a crazy time! The last time I can remember all of us being together was about 9 years ago. I find it so strange to think that some of my cousins weren’t even born then. I feel really old!

Over the holiday I also had the opportunity to take my cousin Caleb’s senior portraits. My uncle and I brought him to Harper’s Fairy to shoot his session. That place is literally a photographers paradise, there are so many cool things to photograph up there. It gets old shooting in the same place over and over again so I love being able to photograph portraits in new areas!

by Nick Drollette

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Another Week Another Travel

Sunday, November 20, 2011

This time last week I was sitting in an airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This week I am sitting in the Charlotte, North Carolina airport on my way to West Virginia to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family. I am really enjoying traveling and being able to see new places. Being a photographer in an airport is really interesting! I get to see all these cool things that normally get overlooked by everyday travelers and have to take a picture with my camera phone. This morning my plane arrived 40 minutes ahead of schedule which has made my layover a good two and a half hours long. I am not the person who can just sit still and do nothing for that long; unless I’m watching Netflix. So this morning I decided to challenge myself by walking all over the airport here in Charlotte and capturing some shots with my camera phone. I think it was complete success! It is so neat to see things that you can capture with something that’s on you all the time. Someone once said, “The best camera you have is the one that’s on you.” and it is so true! Below are some that I took this morning from my phone, I also included some from Haiti. I hope everyone has a blessed Sunday!

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The White Family

Monday, November 14, 2011

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Day 3 Haiti Mission Trip

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Today was are last full day in Haiti. Time has really gone by fast! We started off the day by visiting Rebuild Globally, and it was a really neat place. There mission is to help Haitian people and create jobs by producing handmade recycled tire sandals. The sandals are really cool, I even bought some for myself! You can purchase or even donate to the cause at www.rebuildglobally.org

After we finished up at Rebuild Globally we had a little lunch and then headed to the deaf community to finish our Help Portrait project. Today we photographed over 50 families! This made our total count to be around 120 families that we photographed in the past three days. We also blew up 60 balloons to give to the kids in the community. Every one of them had a smile on there face! There was one little kid that I have grew close with today. I am not even sure what his name was, but he loved hanging out with me. We even created a secret hand shake!There is a picture of him below holding a red balloon.

This trip has been an incredible mind-blowing experience! I can’t wait to come back some day and see how the kids have grown up in their new homes. This journey that I have been on has truly touched my heart. Tomorrow we will be flying out for Ft. Lauderdale at 10am. We should be home sometime around 7pm. Please pray for safe travels for the team and continue to pray for Kyle while he remains in Haiti.

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Day 2 Haiti Mission Trip

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Today was a great day! We started the day off by going to see the land where the deaf community will be moving too in the next few months. The place was a slice of paradise! The one picture I posted below does not describe how awesome the view really is. The land that they will be moving to will help them so much. The place that they are living now is nothing like where they will be living soon. I am really looking forward to them moving out there and seeing their lives change. I hope to make it back here in the next year or so.

The Help Portrait project is going well. There is a picture below of our Haitian studio we created. We did not get to shoot as many as yesterday, but we did get to build some pretty incredible relationships within the deaf community. They make the whole project amazing! All of the kids really enjoy having their picture taken. The reaction they show when they see their picture touches my heart every time. I hope you enjoy the pictures from today. I also posted a video below just to make everyone smile.

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