Photographers of all levels of knowledge and experience are welcome. Topics taught will be requested and tailored to the students in the class that day.

CLICK HERE to register for class

class registration closes this friday August 20th at 5pm

The toughest item I have had to find so far a wood model ship of one of the boston tea party ships…it can be any of them…Dartmouth, Eleanor, or the Beaver

here is a real picture of it. I need  wood model though so I can shoot it and photoshop people on the deck. yup that is right. got to love photoshop.

last of all I am looking for wooden row boat like in this black and white drawing the “indians” are on:)

EMAIL to:

info@capturedmiracles.org with the header as “Talent or Props for Photoshoot”

-2 bails of hay

-old antique looking patch worked quilt

-old lantern (candle or oil)from that 1700 time period

-2 old trunks that would be used for packing books or clothes back in the founding fathers days.

antique bedspread

Click on the image of the beautiful parrot below, for the link to the gallery of images.

The Miracle of America Concert and Art Exhibit VIDEO LINK, Presented by Captured Miracle

Two of my most favorite comments from the event were these:

One little boy who is 6 yrs old, I would guess, came up to me with his big blue eyes and beaming with excitement he held up an 8×10 picture of my “Bullet Proof George Washington” print and as he was talking really fast and excitedly he asked “Did you know that George Washington was shot at 4 times and the bullets didn’t kill him?”

His mother corrected him that he was shot at 17 times and he turned to me and said “Oh yeah it was 17 times and they didn’t hit him. And I have my very own picture of it too” as he held it up to show me.

His mother then said with a big smile on her face that he loved that story in the concert and that he has been talking none stop and had to have a picture of it. That he now wants to learn everything he can about George Washington.

I was so excited to see and hear this from this little boy. My hope was that these concerts, the music, art and history being told would touch hearts of all ages to have a desire to learn of our history. I hoped that it would have an effect on children but I was not sure if it would or not, if it would be to mature for them. At that moment I knew that it was great for all ages.

I talked with a couple other kids this weekend and got similar responses. WOW, how the Lord works. It is amazing.

The other comment that I got was from my friend Rachel Evans, she helps me with a lot of my shoots. She had brought a friend that loved the concert and after seeing it said that she was so touched and inspired that she wants to learn more about our countries history.

Here is an email that I received this morning. From Susan Smith. She is the wife of Cary Smith a Representative in Montana. They heard about our concert and flew out especially to come and see it and see if it was something that they could bring up and have a performance in Montana. Thank you Susan and Cary we look forward to coming to Montana.

If you were at the concert we would love to hear from you. Please leave a comment.

"...You can be very proud of your accomplishments. Your gifts and talents are amazing!
The presentation and artwork is inspiring and well done. BRAVO! 

When the whole group along with the drums, piano and violin sang the last song I
felt the spirit of the promise travel from head to foot and envelope my whole body. 

Testifying to me again with conviction the promise of a free nation that was founded
upon true principles by inspired men, our beloved Founding Fathers with power given
from on high by a loving and kind Heavenly Father. 

Freely given as an inheritance collectively promised if we will stand with courage
and commitment to the Almighty in our purpose as instruments in His hands; together
to preserve our freedom and liberty.

We feel it a privilege to have been there.

Let's set up a time when we can talk about what it would take to bring this
presentation to Billings and surrounding areas. 

Again, thank you.
Susan and Cary Smith"

There will be amazing art by Helen Thomas Robson, fine art photographer of Captured Miracles, Children of God Collection. She will be showing, for the first time, her new collection of the founding fathers and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The concert will be a performance of amazing original music and arrangements By Kirsten Millsap, writer and composer of the song “My Name Is HOPE” featured in a video with our Children of God Collection, on the home page. www.capturedmiracles.org We will also be featuring other musical talents of Jason Barney, Dave Herring and others.

Piper Theater, in the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, AZ

The Concert will consist of stories absent from history such as, in 1746 the Reverend Prince from The Old South Church, still located in Boston, they prayed for divine intervention when France sent a fleet of nearly 100 ships — the largest armada to ever approach the shores of this great land. These ships were here to recapture Louisburg and burn every American harbor from Boston to Charleston sparing no life along the way. We will share how God spared our 13 colonies from this and many other defeats.

Please join us for the special FREE event that your whole family will enjoy!!

Sponsoring

We are still looking for some corporate or private sponsors to help cover the production costs. This will include advertisement space in the program and email campaign to many thousands of respected members of our community. For our larger donors we will make a special announcement during each show thanking you or your company for making the program possible. Please contact Brian Trotter if you or your company have interest in this. We will also be performing an extended version of this concert during the Gilbert Constitution Week with opportunities for advertisement space there as well. (contact Brian Trotter for advertisement details in the program 480-898-7272 or brian@capturedmiracles.org)

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON
The Arizona Celebration of Freedom Event
http://www.azcelebrationoffreedom.org/

But seriously I’m on a hunt for some other random items that don’t make since that they would be found in AZ…but I know they are here. We found the other things so far right!!!

The biggest thing I’m looking for …

• I need around 10 (give or take) British military 1700 re-enactors.I know that they are out there. I have found pics in my internet searches…i just can not find contact info to the right people. I’m looking for the “RED COATS” uniforms. If there are Revolutionary RED military re-enactors…those will work cause they are almost the same thing.
• Along with these we need the muskets(guns) that they used.

Here is the other crazy thing … I’m shooting one of these shoots on thursday and the other half within the next week. So that I can get it done in time for the 4th of July.

For the Shoot sometime in the next week.

• I will be needing 10 young Caucasian guys to be the soldiers…16-late 20′s or at least look in that age.

For the SHOOT this THURSDAY EVENING

• Need 3 Indian men (teens to 30′s age will work great) may need an older man for the chief as well (50-70yrs)
• Indian warrior clothes and every day Indian clothes for the 1700′s
• 2 Caucasian men in their 30′s to play colonial men in everyday dress (I have costumes already)

Any help or leads are so welcomed please let me know. thanks.

ALSO if you have already contacted me that you would like to be in a shoot and you fit any of these descriptions…please email me anyway and let me know you are interested. It will help me save time.

Below is a video to show you what the uniformed soldiers and the Indians look like costume wise.

Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33NCbQzOIg&feature=player_embedded

EMAIL your information to helen@capturedmiracles.org

An American Indian chief looked scornfully at the soldiers on the field before him. How foolish it was to fight as they did, forming their perfect battle lines out in the open, standing shoulder to shoulder in their bright red uniforms. The British soldiers—trained for European war—did not break rank, even when braves fired at them from under the safe cover of the forest. The slaughter continued for two hours. By then 1,000 of 1,459 British soldiers were killed or wounded, while only 30 of the French and Indian warriors firing at them were injured.
Not only were the soldiers foolish, but their officers were just as bad. Riding on horseback, fully exposed above the men on the ground, they made perfect targets. One by one, the chief’s marksmen shot the mounted British officers.

“Quick, let your aim be certain and he dies,” the chief commanded. The warriors leveled their rifles at the young washington. Round after round was aimed at this one man. Twice his horse was shot out from under him. Twice he grabbed a horse left idle when a fellow officer had been shot down. Ten, twelve, thirteen rounds were fired by the sharpshooters. Still, the he remained unhurt.

The native warriors stared at him in disbelief. Their rifles seldom missed their mark. The chief suddenly realized that a mighty power must be shielding Wahington. “Stop firing!” he commanded. “This one is under the special protection of the Great Spirit.” A brave standing nearby added, “I had seventeen clear shots at him…and after all could not bring him to the ground. This man was not born to be killed by a bullet.”

As the firing slowed, the lieutenant colonel gathered the remaining troops and led the retreat to safety. That evening, as the last of the wounded were being cared for, Washington noticed an odd tear in his coat. It was a bullet hole! He rolled up his sleeve and looked at his arm directly under the hole. There was no mark on his skin. Amazed, he took off his coat and found three more holes where bullets had passed through his coat but stopped before they reached his body.

Nine days after the battle, having heard a rumor of his own death, the young lieutenant colonel wrote his mother to confirm that he was still very much alive.

“As I have heard since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first and of assuring you that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!”

This battle, part of the French and Indian War, was fought near Fort Duquesne. The twenty-three-year-old Washington went on to become the commander in chief of the Continental Army and the first president of the United States. In all the years that followed in his long career, this man, George Washington, was never once wounded in battle.

Fifteen years later, in 1770, George Washington returned to the same Pennsylvania woods. A respected Indian chief, having heard that Washington was in the area, traveled a long way to meet with him.

He sat down with Washington, and face-to-face over a council fire, the chief told Washington the following:

“I am a chief and ruler over my tribes. My influence extends to the waters of the great lakes and to the far blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. It was on the day when the white man’s blood mixed with the streams of our forests that I first beheld this chief [Washington].

I called to my young men and said, “Mark yon tall and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe—he hath an Indian’s wisdom and his warriors fight as we do—himself alone exposed. Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies.”

Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss—’twas all in vain, a power mightier far than we shielded you.
Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you. I am old and shall soon be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of the shades, but ere I go, there is something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy:

Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man [pointing at Washington], and guides his destinies—he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle.”

Thank you so much for your interest in our project, The Miracle of America; The Birth of A Nation. We feel the great tragedy of America is the imposed loss of our history and heritage and shortly to follow our liberties. We Americans have a remarkable heritage with a profound history, however, in 1934 there arose a great push to rewrite the American story pulling from it all connection to the true founder of this great nation, God. There is no question our founding Fathers were great men with amazing wives and families that sacrificed much, all in some cases, to construct the documents that have served as the foundation for our freedom and the liberties we have enjoyed. Despite their greatness they were quick to give credit to the divine nature of their inspiration. It is our belief that the liberal media and its puppet politicians have exerted all of their energy to make these founding fathers secular, agnostics and even atheist in many cases. They are doing this by taking their words; the words of our founding fathers, manipulating them and using them out of context, then spoon feeding the lies back to our people.

There are many organizations around the country teaching the truth and changing the way people feel about our Founding Fathers and our great heritage. We wanted to do the same thing but to come at it from a different angel. Through art, music and entertainment. We know that this will grab a large number of our countrymen and help them to become excited about educating themselves in other ways and standing up and making their voice heard to help make a difference. We also know that the youth of this country will never receive the truth from our “institutes of education”. This is why we have created this production, The Miracle of America; The Birth of A Nation. We feel that the potential audience for “entertainment” is much greater and diverse. We have created an amazing tool including art, music and narration that will reach a much larger group thus lighting the fire of war against immorality and deception. We believe that Americans are a moral people with good hearts and when given the opportunity to know the truth, they will stand up and fight. It is said that the greatest generation of this country was that of WW II, I do not wish to discount their patriotism and the remarkable sacrifice they graciously made for me and this great Land, however, I truly believe that in the coming generations, We The People, of our time will be spoken of with reverence. They will refer to us like the people of Moses, the generation that broke free of bondage, the generation that broke the chains of our captors. I believe that the most powerful tool is the most profound of truths. The only way to save this country from the enemies within is to reconnect its people to our heritage, to reconnect our people to our founding fathers and the Document that is our foundation. “The Constitution of The United States”

“When our land is illumined with liberty’s smile,
If a foe from within strikes a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that tries to defile
The flag of the stars, and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained,
Who their birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”

I have included a couple pictures from our “The Miracle of America” series and one of the historical facts included in our production that lead to the break away of our first 13 colonies and formation of our nation.

It was 1746, during what came to be known as the French and Indian War, the famous Old South Church, or the Old South Meeting House, at that time considered the main meeting house for the patriots of Massachusetts. The Church, once the tallest building in Boston. Now sits nestled in the midst of the towering office buildings of modern urban life. Now, unassuming, this building holds a secret, an amazing story of Faith and intervention.
During October of 1746, France sent a fleet of nearly 100 ships — the largest armada to ever approach the shores of this great land – They were here to recapture Louisburg and burn every American harbor from Boston to Charleston sparing no life along the way.
We alone held no hope in matching the massive Canon, Gun and manpower of this great fleet. We needed a miracle! The Governor assembled what men and resources he could and called for a universal day of fasting and prayer. Thronging to the churches, people everywhere pleaded with the almighty asking for that miracle.

Time was short as the fleet was quickly approaching our shores The Reverend Thomas Prince from the high pulpit of the Old South Church, prayed before hundreds. He offered up these words:

“Deliver us from our enemy!” He implored. “Send Thy tempest, Lord, upon the waters to the eastward! Raise Thy right hand. Scatter the ships of our tormentors and drive them hence. Sink their proud frigates beneath the power of Thy winds!”

He had scarcely pronounced the words when the sun was consumed by darkness and there arose a great tempest in the sea. All the Church in a shadow the great wind shrieking around its walls., sudden, violent hammering, the shutters slamming at the windows, as if the very hand of God shook the earth. The bell tower atop the old church ringing so fiercely they feared it would break lose pummeling anyone in its path

“We hear Thy voice, O Lord!” he thundered triumphantly. “We hear it! Thy breath is upon the waters to the eastward, even upon the deep. Thy bell tolls for the death of our enemies!” He bowed his head in reverence; then looked up, tears streaming down his face. “Thine be the glory, Lord. Amen and amen!”

It was a miracle, the miracle they prayed for. The whole fleet, nearly lost, The remaining men some sick with scurvy, some pestilential fever was observed a week later limping off to the southwest.
God was called upon and God answered. Or country was saved; Boston wasn’t burned! Charleston wasn’t burned! New York wasn’t burned! God had once again preserved the colonists from utter destruction.

-Brian Trotter