MCCS Spring Pictures

amount Calvary Spring Pictures have been delivered! Last night at graduation, pictures were handed out. If you were not there to get them please call us. Thanks. J and A

2012 Mount Calvary Christian School Spring Pictures are coming....

We have been intensely working on getting the pictures into post edit form. Several are already done and will start hitting the website in a few short hours. We are excited as always, but this time even more as the guys and girls are really making this a fun event... STAY TUNED!!

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A few more Washington D.C. pictures

Smithsonian Air and Space... look closely, can you see our daughter????

and a few from the changing of the guards at Arlington..

A really weird thing happened while at Arlington....

First, a few things....the picture below of the funeral procession wasn't really supposed to happen. I know, that sounds really weird. but here's the deal....there was a U.S. park police helicopter flying really low overhead, and as we were turning around to see it, we noticed this procession coming our direction. The car the helicopter was following came speeding by and almost hit the horse and carriage. It was actually within feet of us, dangerously close! As I snapped these photos, a park worker told me, " No photos please.". I was unaware until after I had already taken these photos, that pictures of this nature at Arlington by 'guests' are forbidden to secure that privacy of the family and the seclusion of the event. I am sorry.

A few pictures from our recent trip to Washington D.C.

Arlington National Cemetery...

Here's a few pictures from the North Carolina Christian School Associations Basketball Regional high school varsity finals...I think that's what it was called... The end picture kind of sums it all up... we WON...65 to 46!!!!

"A Christian Christmas Carol"

Pictures for the Mount Calvary Christian School's production of "A Christian Christmas Carol" are up
please ->click here<-  to view them..
Thanks

Charles Spurgeon said, "Pray that thou mayst be an example and a blessing unto others, and that thou mayst live more to the glory of thy Master. The motto for this year must be, “Continue in prayer.”

New Look-Last Post of 2011

This might be the last post of 2011....enjoy...

Ah, the tired ol' swing...just because it's a swing...doesn't mean it can't rest!

taken this morning as I looked out from the bedroom....composed as an HDR

MCCS School Pictures !!

Well, we have just about wrapped up the editing of all the school pictures for Mount Calvary Christian School. Most of them have been uploaded to our website at .......www.johnarnoldphotography.net . Letters to parents will be going out tomorrow and orders should be placed by Friday, December 9th. As always, any questions should be directed to our email...jnaarnold@northstate.net

As requested......

Greene outdoor portraits.......
                              What a cold, blustery morning this was, but we all survived, but God was so good, and some great pictures were made!

North Carolina Christian School Association Convention--Myrtle Beach, SC

Panoramic shot from 12 stitched together photos from the balcony of the Schooners Hotel. Exposure and f/stop held constant. Lightly touched up in Photoshop.

(**Please click on photo to see larger view**)

Little green Grasshopper.....

Ok, so we found this little guy out in the garage and gave him a slice of lettuce and made a little photo-shoot for him. He never once tried to get away! He might be the one who is munching on our Weeping Cherry tree... We won't say what became of him after the pictures..just kidding, he crawled off to somewhere.

Spring Pictures have been ordered and are on their way!

The pictures are coming and should be in for the last day of school, Friday May 27th.Again, we are so sorry for the delay...but life has been very busy for the Arnold clan. Maybe one day, the Lord would see fit to have us do photography full time. Its all in His hands. Thank you to all you parents who have allowed us to work with your wonderful boys and girls! It is such a privilege to be involved with kids that have such a wonderful spirit about them, it really has been a joy.
John and Amy

2011 mount Calvary Christian School Junior-Senior Banquet

So every year Mount Calvary Christian School hosts their Junior-Senior Banquet for the 'upper' class. This year, Caleb Staley, Grant Owen and Caleb Owen were the guests of honor. The theme, as if you couldn't tell by the pictures, was 'Go west young man, go west!" What a great time and a great challenge from Pastor Callahan...again. As you can see, they had a little fun with the camera also. More too come...follow along.

I have been really trying to school myself on Adobe Photoshop CS4 and although it took me about three hours to create this 'Wanted' poster, I think the efforts were well worth it. Then, after all that, I was just adding the nails layers and the program froze. I was not able to save the .psd file, so I lost all my layer separations and presets...what a bummer! But at least it was saved as one whole image. I still have a lot of tweaking to do to the paper 'edges' and the colors, but all in all I am pretty happy with it. I will be uploading most of these to our parent site... HERE.

Aysia Arnold

Here's our daughter Aysia singing "All Through The Night" at the North Carolina Christian School Associations Fine Arts competition. Mrs. Susan Greene playing piano for her.

2011 NCCSA Fine Arts-Aysia Arnold from amy on Vimeo.

NCCSA Fine Arts- Claire Greene Award of Excellence!!

" Who'll Buy My Lavender?" from amy on Vimeo.

North Carolina Christian School Association Fine Arts Competition

Well, here is a video, albeit low resolution, of the performance by the "Special Group" put together by Ms. Caroline McPheron from Mount Calvary Christian School. The singers are from left to right: Tucker Arnold, Caleb Mallory, Scott Loupe, Caleb Greene, Claire Greene and Aysia Arnold. The song was written by Ron Hamilton, titled, " All That I Need". Piano by Mrs. Susan Greene.