Thanksgiving

So what do you give thanks for? Personally, I am thankful that I made it to see 30 yrs of age, I am thankful that all of my family is in good health and spirits. I will not be able to spend this Thanksgiving with my family, but I am happy that I will be able to cook a meal for others who are far away from their families as well.

I am already in preparations of the big meal, cornbread dressing, cornish hens, collard greens, bake macaroni-n-cheese, sweet potatoe pie, and red velvet cake. I am getting hungry just thinking about it. Yum!!

I pray that all the soldiers, airmen, marines, and seamen who are far away from home fighting the good fight, are protected and will come home safe and sound. That they will be able to spend future Thanksgivings with their loved ones.

Dark Photography

As a military photographer, there is a term shared by many of my colleagues...Dark photography. I was tested today on my skills in this photography as I was called out to photograph an autopsy of a suicide victim.

Being as this was my first time photographing anything in this manner, I was nervous, anxious, scared to say the least. I did not know what to expect and how I would react, so I spent hours mentally preparing myself for the situation.

I am glad to know that I can handle myself just fine, if and when I am called on again for the task. I neither fainted, vomited, nor ran away.

And for those who have comtemplated or is comtemplating suicide and feel there is no way out, how can you be so sure? If you are dead, then there is no future...no future or opportunity to solve the problem. Ask how it will affect those loved ones left behind, because they are left longing for questions as to why. Left feeling guilty, thinking they could have done something to prevent it. Communicate with your loved ones or seek assistance from a professional when you are having these thoughts, there is always a better solution...don't let suicide be your final one.

Paranormal activity

Tonight my cousins and I are going to check out the movie Paranormal Activity, so we will see if it is as scary as the review raved it would be. It takes a lot to scare me now a day, so I am going to be disappointed if it doesn't deliver. I am sure that my cousins will be scared, we will see. I will give my reviews later on.

Well Paranormal Activity was another Blair Witch Project...the whole movie is through a camera and it is not...I repeat not scary at all. The believability factor was not there for me and one man shouted out in the theater that he wanted his $9.50 back.