Muriel ♥ Morena

Muriel & Morena are both active members of Singles for Christ (SFC)-Bahrain, it is also the place where they initially met way back in 2008.

Muriel & Morena do share many things in common and aside from the fact that their names starts with the letter “M”, their nickname almost rhymed well together too 🙂

Their prenup shoot is I think one of the most challenging to date I’ve done so far (for them too! xD), as I work full time with another type of job. I do photography with what’s left after that but since it’s Ramadan season currently over here, I mostly reached home at around 12am everyday… with the “time” factor already in question, I could have just said no easily in an instant right after reading their email about their interest in having me as their photographer for their prenup…but my answer instead was a yes with a big smile on my face 🙂

Aside from that, I was informed too that Muriel will soon leave the country in the next 4 days. So, that gives me only 3 days to make this shoot happen! without a theme in mind when I called them, I remember him telling me not long ago that their shoot should include some scenery of this country. That would be easy as I’ve thought, however, how would you find a location or a spot to shoot if most of the places I can think of are already taken by their previous photographers?!? Yep, you heard me right! Why is that so? It’s because Muriel & Morena, have been making a series of prenup shoot already from different photographers each month for a 12 month period until the time of their wedding! Sweet!:) and I believe I’m the 8th photographer already. Pressure much?!? Aye! 🙂

I believe, I’m the only photographer currently among their previous prenup shoot given with these lovely blessings of impossibilities 🙂 and even though I was given these circumstances, I’m still in no way backing down on this one! 😀

And so, off we went the very next day to a quite popular but a hard to find heritage site in this country— “The Tree of Life.” I’ve heard so many stories about this tree and up to this date no one can really explain how this lone tree in the middle of a desert grew and survived in a country that experiences just a handful amount of rain in a year? It is believed to be a hundred years old. Problem is, no one from among us really knew how to get there! And so, from the time I came home from work which is already midnight by then, I’m still up searching and analyzing photos from Google map on how to get to this place. It’s really hard as the Google map doesn’t show roads leading to it which in fact in reality none really exist! xD

Even without a clear direction and just a few knowledge we gained from internet forums on how to get there, we are still set to meet at 4am and do a sunrise shoot with this mysterious Tree of Life 🙂

Guess what? We got lost! xD and the sun rose so early like 4:30ish! 😦 We gave up looking for it around 6am since we all need to report for work that day, so we headed back north to our respective places… I promised to them not to give up and we will try to look for someone who knew or have been there already and who is willing to come with us too. This is where a good friend of mine joined in for this shoot- Thank you Mr. Dexter Garcia! 🙂

Without much sleep since yesterday, and the fact that the sun rises early during summer in this country and all of us still got work to go to, we are left with no choice but do what was originally planned instantly the following day 🙂 and by this time we should meet earlier than before! I think most of us would agree that it is really hard to wake up early if you come home at midnight and expect to see the sun earlier than usual and do a sunrise shoot…

But I do strongly believe that any circumstances that imprison us cannot limit God’s work through us.

“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness”. – 2 Corinthians 12:9

I once heard a story of a boy that was stricken by a polio, making him unable to use his legs. But he compensated for that loss by devoting himself to his violin. In the years that followed, he delighted multitudes of people with his music. He lost the use of his legs but his music gave him wings…