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Welcome to His Hands Photographs! We're a husband and wife photography team who specialize in weddings and family portraits. I'm Samantha Ferguson and my husband is Cory. We have a son and daughter, Elijah and Sarah, who are the reasons we started photography. We love pictures and we love to see things a little differently. We didn't grow up wanting to be photographers but both fully beleive this is what God made us to do. Please take a little time to read through the blog and get to know us! You will see a little bit of everything from our personal life to my favorites from the awesome families and couples that we serve!!! Leave a comment and tell me what you think! Comments make my day!

101 in 1001 days – Birmingham Alabama Photographer

Posted on January 27, 2010

I came across this website a few weeks ago and I was so intrigued. The last 6 months or so I have realized that I don’t do anything but work and take care of my family. I keep telling myself that when I slow down I can do this… that… etc. You know how it is! But I have come to realization that life will never slow down and it is up to us to stop and do our best to do the things that make life worth it and at the same time taking care of the responsibilities in our life. That is why I thought 101 things in 1001 years is a great way for me to purposefully do things that I have always wanted to do. I plan to share each number with you on the blog. 1001 days is roughly 2 1/2 years. Some of my goals are hard to reach and some are very easy and simple, some are silly and some are more serious. I am excited just thinking about all the neat things I plan to do on purpose to enjoy the life that God has given us. Now, you will notice there are a few missing. I am just at a lost for more and I think I will be adding more as I think of them. Since so many of these are business related, Cory has added several of his goals on here too. (Well, God does consider one, right?). So what do you think about my list??

1. Photograph a session with 5 generations. (know anyone?)
2. Spend a long weekend vacation with another family.
3. Make mud pies with my children.
4. Go on an overnight trip with my husband, without our children, and NOT for work.
5. Photograph a bride in the ocean or gulf in her dress in the water.
6. Replace all of our current artwork in our home with just our pictures.
7. Use my antique highchair in a portrait session.
8. Host a formal dinner party on my grandmother’s china for 6 people.
9. Paint Sarah’s finger nails and toenails (when I think she is ready)
10. Sell our current home or add on to our existing home.
11. Take 12 weeks of dance class.
12. Overnight vacation with a friend.
13. Visit Savannah and photograph my children under the oak trees.
14. Photograph my step sister with her horse.
15. Do real portraits, not snap shots of my children with each grandparent. (Nana, Pop, Oma, and Grandpa)
16. Go to the beach with my sister and all the kids but no husbands.
17. Read an entire book not for work or for a class but for enjoyment alone.
18. Spend an entire day alone with Elijah doing the things he enjoys most.
19. Spend an entire day alone with Sarah doing the things she enjoys most.
20. Organize a meeting with local photographers for fun and to get to know each other.
21. Approach a complete stranger and offer them a free session.
22. Host a client appreciation open house.
23. Give away a free wedding.
24. Schedule a portrait session for my family where I leave location and ideas totally up to the artist.
25. Photograph another photographer’s family
26. Photograph an Indian wedding
27. write down my story of how God led us to start our photography business
28. plant a garden
29. Repaint my house.
30. Make peach jam and fig jam from the trees in our backyard.
31. Host a potluck dinner for friends.
32. Spend an afternoon with a friend, letting her teach me what she does best. (bake bread, sew, paint, etc.)
33. Spend an afternoon going through old pictures of my family with my mom, letting her tell me te same story over and over again.
34. Host a Bible study in our home.
35. Photograph my elementary school best friend and her family.
36. Take my children to a Braves Game.
37. Take a class or seminar that is offered by one of my favorite photographers.
38. Host a Gallery showing??? maybe…. big maybe.
39. Second shoot with a photographer that I admire.
40. Go on a woman’s retreat
41. Make a fine art album of my children (one for each child)
42. Visit Israel.
43. Cook Indian food from scratch.
44. Visit Ikea.
45. Hand out gospel tracts on a street corner.
46. Take our children to a movie with popcorn and extra butter.
47. Take our children to the Civil Rights Museum.
48. Teach Elijah how to ride his bike.
49. Visit New York City and eat at three places on Food Network.
50. Visit Washington DC.
51. Find my best friend Jennifer.
52. Meet Cory’s extended family in Calofornia.
53. Take a cooking class
54. finally get a passport for all of us.
55. Go camping, in a tent.
56. Release a brand new website.
57. Attend Imaging USA with Cory.
58. Take a roadtrip without a destination in mind.
59. Find and reconnect with my brother, Matt.
60. Photograph my brother and sister in laws family.
61. Send my best friend a gift in the mail, totally unexpected.
62. Go snorkeling.
63. Photograph a wedding in another state.
64. Visit Mexico.
65. Teach Sarah how to fly a kite.
66. Register Elijah for soccer.
67. Register Sarah for Ballet class.
68. Dance in the rain with my husband.
69. Blog for 30 days straight.
70. Make spaghetti sauce from scratch.
71. Eat at Highlands Bar and Grill
72. have our work published in a magazine
73. host a BIG giveaway on a local radio station.
74. Purchase a lensbaby
75. have an entire day with the phone off, no tv, no computer.
76. Take ballroom dancing classes with Cory
77. Renew our vows on our 10^th anniversary
78. Photograph a Jewish Wedding
79. Buy Sarah her first pair of dance shoes.
80. Have a reunion with my two foster sisters at the same time
81. Have a picnic in the park.
82. Lose 40 lbs.
83. Spend an afternoon by myself at a bookstore.
84. Get a hot stone massage.
85. Memorize a bible verse a week for 12 weeks.
86. Eat at Paula Deens restaurant.
87. Visit New Orleans and take my kids to visit my favorite zoo when I was a child.
88. Visit a National Park.
89. Make a snow angel
90. Make a new filing system.
91. Photograph my high school best friend with her husband and kids.
92. Have a personal shopper (or someone very stylish) pick out an outfit for me.

Start you own list here! If you have a blog please comment here you list too. I would love to read what others are doing!

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