The Girl Behind the Cannon

The deeper meaning hidden in the smallest details of the world around me, the magnificence and serenity of a sunrise that awakens the promises of a new day, and the mystery and splendor of God’s creation- all of this I wish to display in my photos.

Photography is meant to capture the viewer’s attention and leave them changed. My hope is that, with my pictures, people will see the world as more than just their own immediate surroundings. I intend to lure people’s focus, and compel them to see what lies around them through different eyes while finding beauty in the most unexpected places.

Writing is another one of my passions and I truly believe that every detail in life has something to tell us. With my photos I plan to write what cannot be described with words, leaving viewers to make the story of the picture whatever they wish it to be. Through my photographs seep both unity and disorder. I take the viewers to places they would not have been on their own, and invite them to see that which they would have missed otherwise. While exploring my portfolio, I hope people are able to experience, if just for a moment, the emotions that I felt while taking the pictures.

A close friend and fellow photographer, Cecilia Iniguez, says this of photography: “With my camera I am able to steal a portion of the world and make it my own.” No photograph could ever portray the world as I see it, no words could ever describe the thoughts in my head, and no lyrics could ever mimic the song my heart sings. But with my camera I hope to capture just a small portion of the world and allow viewers to get a glimpse of life through my eyes and to hear for but a moment the music my mind is always playing.

Photography has taught me a lesson in waiting. The perfect picture is impossible to achieve, but I chase after it still. I wait and long for those moments when I can capture the words of my heart, the vision of my soul, and the song my heart forever sings.

Capturing the Moments,

Meredith White

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not men. Colossians 3:23

Enough about what I do...This is WHO I AM!

~I am going to be the wife of the most incredible person I know. We both love life and love laughing and love teaching kids. One day we hope to have a few of our own. I can't wait to see the future God has ahead for us. Mostly I just can't wait until I can call him my husband!

~I'm an etearnal optimist but sometimes my BIG DREAMS scare me 2 tears.

~I'm obsessed with the sky-sunrises, sunsets, clouds, stars. It makes me wonder how people don't believe in God. It reminds me that my life's just a speck in the big scheme of things.

~I still love stuffed animals.

~Yellow's my favorite color because it makes me think of smiley faces.

~I love running and I've always wanted to run as far as I could in one direction and see where it put me but cars tend to get in my way.

~I hate being cold but love to snow ski.

~I love to drive with my windows down and my music blaring.

~I work hard for the things that are important to me and figure that everything else will somehow fall into place.

~I love to be outside on a sunny day.

~If I say "I love you" I mean it. It's a big deal to me.

~There are lots of people who never knew me that have touched me in a special way and people who came into my life for a short time that forever changed me.

~I love kids. Every one makes me smile. In them I see my past and my future. I'll always be a kid at heart.

~People watching is one of my favorite things to do and often a stranger makes me smile.

~I love chicken and hate green beans and that will never change.

~I couldn't choose between the mountains and the beach even if I tried.

~I love the sound of crunching leaves and fall is my favorite time of year.

~I am very blessed and don't deserve anything I'm given and wish I could give back more than I do.

~I know I am nothing on my own.

~I don't quickly make decisions big or small. I try to avoid them.

~I am very absent-minded.

~The unknown future scares me but I wish it would hurry up.

~I'm not a big fan of shoes: only running shoes and flipflops for me.

~I love disney movies.

~Jesus is way more than my homeboy, he's my savior.

~I don't think I could ever be a city girl even if I tried. But my address is written in pencil so if I had to I would deal with it.

~I used to be obsessed with pogs and Hanson was my favorite boy band.

~I laugh at almost anything and it isn't hard to make me smile.

~I hope people will remember me for something that truly matters.

~I'm just a girl trying to make since of this crazy world holding tight to the one who created it.

~I often fake a smile but quickly forget I was faking it.

~I am a sucker for big dogs, puppies, grown up puppies, starry skies, Braves baseball, and a boy who's a sucker for Met's baseball.

~I don't know where the roads ahead may take me but I know where I'll be when I get there.

~Life IS like a box of chocolates-like it or not, smile, be polite, and enjoy the company.

~I really love to write. I ramble a whole lot. And if you got to the bottom of this page and read all of it, that really makes me feel loved. If you did you deserve a prize. If you have made it this far you may as well leave a comment about how crazy you think I am. ;) For you brave souls check out my writing blog. www.meredith-white.blogspot.com

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Day 2

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 9:53pm Posted in Uncategorized

I have had the pleasure of teaching some pretty amazing children in the past couple of years in several different educational environments. Three schools…probably hundreds of different kids…and along the way learning from some pretty amazing teachers. My first teaching opportunity happened at Scenic Land School, a school for children with learning disorders. Here I helped teach young dyslexic children how to read and express themselves in unique ways. More recently, I have worked with some of the same teachers from Scenic Land at a school in McDonald, Tennessee called Bachman Academy. One of these two super-fun kids was one of the first kids I had the chance to work with during my freshman year of college. He was a stubborn one and took a lot of prodding, but he learned to love learning just as I did once prodded. He sometimes has more energy than the typical teacher would like to have in her classroom but I feel kids like him just make teaching more of a challenge and adventure. He cracked me up and drove me crazy. His imagination was beyond me. With a stick in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other, he became a soldier camouflaged in the woods behind Bachman. I just needed to find a way to help him see that the dead people he was supposed to learn about in school actually did that with real equipment. It was never hard to get him reading a book about ninjas or soldiers or knights. I will keep that in mind when it is finally my turn to be a “real teacher.”

This was a day that I had the pleasure of accompanying several students to the Chattanooga Aquarium and watch them stand fascinated at the sight of a torpedoing penguin, try to catch a butterfly on their hand, and pet the backs of sting rays. Learning has such a greater impact when you can see it somewhere besides a textbook…when you can feel it with your fingers, watch it happen in front of you, listen to someone who was there when it happened, or just go into the woods with a walkie-talkie and imagine what it felt like to really be there. I know I would be a whole lot smarter if that was the kind of learning I did. I can’t wait to learn along with my students and watch them learn to love it just like I do.