Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Tim Challies Expose - Travelling With a Star!

It was my joy to travel to Together for the Gospel with Tim Challies, the official live-blogger of the event. It has been a long time since I "tagged along" with anyone, so I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed this change of pace. People may wonder what it is like to travel with the world's most famous evangelical, Christian blogger. People may not. Either way, I thought I might produce a small photo essay to fill you in.

The first thing you ought to know is that Tim loves his fun, so we were forced to ride back and forth many times on those moving walkways at each of the four airports we used. Here is Tim simply gushing with joy as we reach the end of another thrill-filled 100 meters.


Our flight was late getting into Louisville, but we managed to make it to the Band of Bloggers meeting anyway. Tim is used to this kind of spotlight all over the world... notice the look of pure joy on his face as Dr. Al Mohler introduces him to the crowd of 120 or so gathered to sit at his feet.









Of course, live-blogging requires a lot of... live-blogging... and dead-blogging, or not-so-live blogging... as Tim is doing here. (Candid photos like this are very rare. It is not every day you see a blogger blogging. Observe the careful stance, nuanced approach and bent fingers. Remarkable.)











Well, I had more to add, but blogger is giving me excessive grief trying to add these photos. Suffice to say that Challeez is the man.

And, by the way... one of us snores.

9 comments:

  1. You can tell how fast we're going on that sidewalk by all the blurring in the picture.

    Either that or you're just a lousy photographer.

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  2. I'm surprised the third picture is not a blur judging by how fast Tim types (120 words/minute by his own count).

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  3. The moving sidewalk caption nearly killed me.

    Tim, you need to get out more, brother.

    (Thanks for this pictorial Paul, it was good to see Tim actually smile for a change. I bet you guys had a blast!)

    SDG,
    Carla

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  4. First off, let me clarify that I am an excellent photographer... the blurring in the background behind Tim was caused by him running the wrong way on the moving walkway. I didn't want to mention this, but his impugning of my photography skills requires this divulging.
    Second, um... I guess there wasn't a second.
    Sorry.

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  5. "Here is Tim simply gushing with joy as we reach the end of another thrill-filled 100 meters."

    I should point out that the thrill-filled 100 meters took us about 50 meters past our gate. Once you're on those moving sidewalks you can't get off until the end...even if you have to slowly watch your gate pass by.

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  6. Paul . . .

    Have you ever tried using picasa to load pictures? Here's a link to the free download--

    http://picasa.google.com/download/index.html

    I was just starting out a few weeks ago in Blogger and didn't know anything (and I mean I knew NOTHING) and in using this tool, it was a piece of cake adding pictures.

    Maybe this will simplify things for you should you wish to share insightful pictures of Challies in the future!

    Hope it actually helps!

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  7. So much pure joy!

    and by the way - why not get some treatment for that snoring and let Tim sleep.

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