You know those awesome stories you keep in your back-pocket? The cool, timeless ones? Well, at the beginning of this year I traveled to a remote part of the world, lived in a tropical jungle (slept with ants)  and met my dark-skinned, salt-water brothers & sisters; the stories from my stay there are my back-pocket keepers.

The trip was for photography & to assist a doctor who travels solo doing missions all over the world. We left at the end of April for the Solomon Islands. After our 20 hours of flight we boated nearly 4 hours (in a rinkydink thing reminiscent of something from Gilligan’s Island) then traveled via hilux 45 minutes into the jungle to reach our village: Fa’arau.

The people of Malaita & their love for life & Jesus left a huge impression on my heart. I’m so honored to have had the opportunity to be taught so much about simple living, gratefulness, and true worship while I was there.

I’m will be starting a mini-series of posts documenting my stay & excerpts from my journal entries from that month.

(Be looking for that on my blog)

Madeleine is a photographer based out of Houston Tx, shooting a wide variety of styles. She loves to “create and expose beauty” and is an artist as well as photographer. Check out her amazing work and get to know more about the person behind the camera, Madeleine Bonin.