Photography keep her busy
As if being a pastor’s wife and stay-at-home mom weren’t enough to keep a person busy, Becky Soyster has also launched a career as a photographer.
Soyster, of Advanced Photography and Design, has done some outdoor scenic work on the Oregon coast and weddings in the Redmond area prior to moving to Grant County. She did the Boyers’ wedding in Monument and has two more wedding shoots scheduled this summer.
Outdoor portraits and events, scenery and weddings are her main photographic interests, she says. Soyster also says she would like to do more senior portraits.
She says that her husband Norman, pastor at Monument Bible Church, is very supportive of her photography business. And she likes the flexibility it affords, especially since she also homeschools their three young boys.
Samples of her work and numerous casual shots of their children - Levi, Benjamin and Samuel - fill the Soyster home, just outside of town.
Readers may recall an article in the Eagle a year ago about son Levi’s encoun-ter with a rattlesnake. Levi recovered from a snake-bite after emer-gency crews rushed him to the hospital in John Day and then on to Portland for treatment.
Soyster says that she has always enjoyed taking pictures. Now that she has a better camera, thanks to her husband, she is enjoying learning even more techniques and tricks of the trade. Of her natural talent, a friend from the coast once told her, “You don’t take pictures … you tell stories.”
She says that their family will also be featured in a story about pastors and their families in a future issue of Ruralite magazine.
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