Betty Tisdale

Betty Tisdale runs a charity aimed at Southeast Asian children… here.

Hospice Care

There’s absolutely nothing like having one of your best friends with you as you face a tough time.

Girl, adopted

Homeless camp

The Wedding Party

I was at this wedding to do an editorial shoot on the bride and groom about their involvement in a fund raising walk-a-thon the same day as their wedding. While the wedding photographer was posing other people in the family I looked around and saw the entourage taking a break.

Nelson Mandela

W E Henley’s Invictus. The poem is also said to have cheered Nelson Mandela during his years of incarceration. It became the title of Clint Eastwood’s film about the South African rugby team.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Scenes from a convention