Have you ever met someone that you knew on that very first meeting would accomplish great things?  For me it happened for the first time in grade school.  I remember she was beautiful, smart, humble and personable.  Did I say smart??  Oh Yeah…like off the charts smart.  I realized this in math class when the teacher worked one of those problems that took the entire chalk board. He was showing us what next year in algebra was going to be like. Obviously the answer did not work out correctly.  From the back of the room, slowly and timidly she raised her hand.  The frustrated teacher ignored her at first.  Then after another student made him aware of the hand in the back of the room - he recognized her.  Her name was Kara Martin.  She is the daughter of a college professor at the University and her mother Kim was beautiful and very nice.  Kara slowly rose from her seat and walked to the chalkboard.  She took the chalk and in an instant, became the teacher.  Right before our eyes Kara became super human.  It was like a scene from a not yet produced movie.  Very commandingly, yet humbly she explained to the teacher exactly where the mistake was.  She is superhuman, to understand algebra at such a complex level that she can break it down to it’s simplest form, and she was beautiful.  Did I say beautiful??  Little did I know how well I learned the law of attraction early in life.  If you have read the book “the Secret” you will know what I am talking about.  If you have not read this book (or watched the DVD) stop what your doing, go to Amazon.com and order it. 

Kara was very pretty.  She was tall, with blonde hair and blue eyes.  But unlike, most pretty girls in school - she did not seem to know she was pretty.  She was kind to everyone and seem to be most focused on her education and helping others.   I knew definitively on that day in grade school math class at Marvin Pittman Laboratory School, that Kara Martin was going to save the world.  Because I subliminally understood the law of attraction I made every effort to get to know her and befriend her.  She was the kind of person I wanted to be more like.  If it was not possible for me to be more like her, then I wanted to make sure I had a front row seat to watch her journey.

I must admit, even I never dreamed that the journey would take her (and all of us vicariously through her) to such amazing places.  Kara completed high school with a 4.0.  She entered GSU as a pre-med student.  Along the way, looking for scholarships to help with her education she entered the Miss Georgia Southern Pageant, she won and then went on to the Miss Georgia Pageant and was crowned first runner-up.  The next year Kara entered the Miss Southeast Georgia pageant and won.  Then to Miss Georgia and she WON!  On to Atlantic City to the Miss America Pageant.  She almost won Miss America receiving first runner up. 

Even though she did not win Miss America, she had obtained her goal of funding medical school through scholarships.  Kara graduated from GSU, and MCG with a perfect 4.0.  After she was crowned Miss Georgia our resident Clark Kent (Scott Shelar) a reporter for the Statesboro Herald interviewed Kara.  Scott was a sports reporter, I am not sure how he convinced his editor that pageants were a sport.  Obviously, he understood the law of attraction at a little different level.  Scott was smart, handsome and very charming.  On December 30, 1995 Scott and Kara were married in a fairy tale wedding at Christ the King Cathedral in Atlanta.

Kara and Scott have made Atlanta home.  Kara is a physician at Piedmont Hospital and Scott is the executive director of the Construction Education Foundation.  There are lots and lots of wonderful side roads in this couples amazing journey that I have skipped - trying not to make this a novel.  They are now entering into a wonderful new path - the path of parenthood.  They are expecting their first child, a son, in August.  

Along with our great friends Dr. John and Sharon Adams, Edie Grace, DeWayne and I hosted Scott and Kara and a few of our friends for a baby shower at the studio.  I had photographed Kara and Scott at their home in Atlanta recently.  We used this image for the shower invitation.  I will share the invitation along with some images of our journey with Kara and Scott.  I have also included a few images from the shower at the studio.  We wish Kara and Scott the best of luck as they enter parenthood.  With their permission, I will continue to share with you images of their son when he arrives.

For almost 30 years since I first met Kara and later Scott, I continued to be humbled and amazed at watching this dynamic duo in action.  They really are super human in many ways.  Now I know they are going to be SUPER PARENTS! 

Not only have they been great friends, but also wonderful clients. Kara continues to humble me by allowing me to photograph every important part of her journey, from the pageants, graduations, their wedding and now the expecting images. 

Congratulations Kara and Scott and thanks for allowing me to share and help document this wonderful journey.  I can’t wait for  the next chapter