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News...

Hi - news...

Wojtek and I have teamed up to shoot engagement pictures and weddings. We are scheduling 10 weddings a year - For more information contact us by email. sandigunnett@yahoo.com or wojtek1977@gmail.com
please write "weddings" in the subject line.
We do have a temporary site... our site is under construction- here is the link for now.

dandgweddings
Weddings by photographers Wojtek Dabrowski and Sandi Gunnett

Thanks
Hope you are having a great summer.
Sandi Gunnett and Wojtek Dabrowski

Shooting a wedding is a huge commitment... I have always admired wedding photographers... Wojtek and I both enjoy shooting weddings but found it a bit overwhelming to do alone... by teaming up we cut the work and the stress in half... by each doing what we do best - for our clients. We are excited to be able to offer wedding coverage but are limiting the number of weddings we book a year to 10 - so that we will be able to do our best work for our wedding clients and for our other clients.

We would like to thank Dusty Brown for his advice and encouragement and Tim and Cheryl Halberg for the never ending inspiration... you guys rock.
Thank you!

Sandi Gunnett

Painful!!!

How high will they go?? How are you coping? Has anyone out there dusted off their bike? Tim rides about 15 miles every day - to work and back. He is my hero.

summer glorious summer!

working...

Click on Image to link to site

they grow up sooo fast

Inspiration from a friend...

"As I start my week, please enjoy this quote by Marianne Williamson while I stoke the flames of my spirit." -Tommy Allen

Thank you Tommy!!! Thank you for the inspiration.

XO
I so needed it!
Sandi


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?'

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Tim's Hats

Tim will have new hats for sale at SPACECRAFT starting tonight. Nick and Sally have a really great shop. Stop in and see whats new!

... they grow up fast

Young Love

So Sam...

Peace

She passed away in her sleep this morning.... quietly and peacefully.
The sun is shining today and the sky is blue.
Thank you for your prayers.

Life passing...

Life is a strange and wonderful thing.
At this moment in time... there are no words
I am at the hospital.
My grandmother has said her goodbyes - she is ready to go.

Please pray that she passes quickly and peacefully. She has been fighting so hard - she is tired - and ready to go home...

Sandi

this exit? feelin a bit like Alice...

`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.

`I don't much care where--' said Alice.

`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

`--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.

`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'

contact?

[Land] is convinced that images can be as effective as words and that every person has a latent ability to make effective contact with another through visual statements.
-Ansel Adams

the great puzzle....

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: `Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!'

bright as yellow - for Alison

And you live your life with your arms stretched out.
Eye to eye when speaking.
Enter rooms with great joy shouts,
happy to be meeting.

And bright,
bright,
bright as yellow,
warm as yellow.

And I do not want to be a rose.
I do not wish to be pale pink,
but flower scarlet, flower gold.
And have no thorns to distance me,

but be bright,
bright,
bright as yellow,
warm as yellow.

Even if I'm shouting, even if I'm shouting here
inside.
Even if I'm shouting, do you see that I'm wanting,
that I want to be so
bright,
bright,
bright as yellow,
warm as yellow.

bright as yellow by - the innocence mission - you tube

one day at a time

Notes... to myself

I am thankful for sunshine and rain
for blue skies and grey
for friends and family - past, future, and present

I am thankful for work and for downtime
as it gives me time to reflect, reorder, and rejuvenate
-life is too short -downtime is important

I am thankful for children
they challenge us, keep us moving, show us what love is,
and teach us patience and grace

I am thankful for life and all of it's challenges
and am grateful that it comes at us one day at a time

One day at a time.
I do not know the future - I try to lay my worries down
to be thankful

... one day at a time

trying to think spring

and the skies opened....

It is pouring outside this morning. No need for music as the drops sound their slow steady rhythm on the rooftop. A stop and take note kind of day. We move too fast and need to be reminded to slow down - to think of the past and the future.... one year ago - Today I remember.... as I watch the drops form on the barren branches outside my window - falling to the ground below in turn.... The snowdrops are just starting to bloom.
one year ago link

home again...

we had a wonderful time on the road...

Colorado polaroids

Fort Collins, Red Rocks, Castlewood Canyon, the Continental Divide... more to come. The pictures are like gold... we set a 5 shot limit per location. They just can't stop making polaroid. Get involved at savepolaroid.com

Milestone

It's my birthday today. I usually don't broadcast it but this year am feeling a little giddy about it. I don't know why... it just feels like it is going to be a good day - no expectations - just happy to have made it through another year. Oh and can't wait for the one to come. Have a great Day!

Every year I try to do a self portrait around my birthday... here is one Tim helped me with. Mirror shot. Thank you Tim.

- Sandi

save polaroid link

link to save polaroid.com

Wondering what's up in GR?

A plug for "Word on the Street" - check it out - it is the Arts Scene Calendar for Grand Rapids. There is allot going on - get out there. Hope to see you in the neighborhood. Thanks to Jenn Schaub and G-Rad for keeping us all in the know!

believe

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-Lewis Carroll

happy monday?

It is rainy and grey here. The snow is slowly melting only to make way for more to come. On days like today you have to make your own sunshine. How do you make sunshine on a cloudy day?
Had to bring a close friend and her cat to the animal hospital this morning - the test results will be back later today - not a fun start to the week.