Cesly Nuckles | “To create one’s own world takes courage.” -Georgia O’Keeff

Daniela Sokolowski | Celebrating my birthday with a little me time 

Tara Foreman | “All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need.  The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.”  (Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith)

Jackie Cuervo | Trying to avoid my reflection in her glasses and then suddenly it hit me, this is a true portrait of myself, usually behind the camera; and as a mother, what she sees in front of her.

Christine Yuen | “Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.” (job 6:24)

Jessica Risinger | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  (John 1:5)

Jessica Holleque | A dusted off image, six years ago.  The first work I ever turned in to be critiqued.  I had something to say and my god was I fearless. 

Lara Austin Shoop | Sometimes, I spend so much time creating the perfect moment or getting the perfect shot, when all along I’ve been living them. I just have to step back and see.  photo credit: Alexandra Shoop

Ashley Lauren McAfee | “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.“ –Mother Teresa

Tatiana Johnson | “Imagine something big. Now double it.” -Guillaume Wolf

Courtney Zimmerman | Hope: As I walked the bridge from one year to the next, I had a sense that I was also crossing a bridge between seasons of life too. 

Jessica Uhler | “My soul has further horizons than the early mornings, deeper darkness the the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature– Thou who art God of all these, be my God.” – Oswald Chambers