Sam R. LaDue Photography

So much joy and love at ‘s installation service this past Saturday. These barely scratch the surface on the pure joy in photos from this day. 🧡

I dare you to look at this beautiful human, with his warm eyes and kind smile, and then tell me you wouldn’t want to read his book!

Such a joy doing these portraits for a GTU
colleague’s upcoming book release this morning. Sunday Akande’s book, We Are The World (Noirledge Publishing, Nigeria), will be published in February

Bigger crowd arrives this evening…

— it’s been a joy photodocumenting this intimate group of spectacular young folx and the (beyond amazing) leaders who walk with them. 🧡

I get satisfaction from many things, among the top things are great photos of great people, and there are SO MANY great people here.

Photographs at Western States Youth Gathering-- we had a great time last night chilling and playing games!