Terri Chapman Photography
Capturing the Splendor of Nature and Divine Light
The Light of Animals and The Light with Animals
Since early childhood, animals have been a significant and invaluable part of my life. My soul has expanded and been healed by each mammal, bird, reptile, marine life, and insect I have met on my journey. In my darkest moments, especially after the death of my Fiance, my greatest solace was found in nature and with my companion animals. So, I created this gallery for all of my fellow animal lovers in the hopes that they would find comfort in seeing that animals are loved, supported, and surrounded by The Light. And, when animals shed their physical form and return back into The Light, they continue to live and be present in our lives.
I unveil this gallery with a special photograph of my cat, Boo Boo, with The Light of Archangel Michael descending into his hind quarters. This image was taken in my bedroom on September 7, 2007 and is the first photograph I ever took of an Angelic Being.
To give you some background on how special this kitty is, on June 10, 2005, I was driving home from work and upon exiting the freeway, I watched several cars in front of me swerve out of the lane I was in, and then come back into the lane. I knew there had to be something on the road and as I got closer, I saw a small white object lying in the middle of the lane and that object was a kitten! After stopping my car in front of the animal, putting on my hazards lights, and safely diverting the oncoming traffic, I pulled a bed sheet out of my trunk and went to get the kitten. Its eyes were closed, there was blood coming out of its mouth, blood covering its back legs, and I thought it was dead. But when I picked the kitten up, I caught sight of its stomach; ever so slightly rise and fall, and I rushed him to the closest animal hospital, which was less than 2 miles away.
The kitten was taken from me and rushed to the veterinarian. I was sick to my stomach from my adrenaline running high and from imagining that someone had discarded the kitten, like garbage, out their car window. I wondered how long the kitten had been laying on the road and I felt such anger that so many cars had driven around the kitten instead of stopping to see if the kitten needed help (but now I can see clearly that God meant for ME to have this kitten).
The veterinarian informed me the kitten was about three months old. He was unconscious, in shock, and had been started on IV fluids, pain medication, and was being warmed. The x-rays revealed a fractured right front leg, two fractured femurs, a fractured right hock, and a “degloved” back left foot (the soft tissue down to the bone, including neurovascular bundles and tendons, were peeled off the foot). Miraculously, there were no internal injuries!
On July 2, 2005, after the kitten had recovered from several orthopedic surgeries to repair his broken body, he came home to live with me. I named him Boo Boo in honor of all the boo boo's that had been mended.
On September 7, 2007, Boo Boo was resting comfortably on my bed and I picked up my Nikon E5400 camera to take some pictures of him. I focused Boo Boo in my lens, shot off a few pictures, and I did not see anything unusual in the lens while taking the pictures. It was not until I reviewed my images on the camera’s monitor that I saw I had captured a beautiful, striated, curved white Light going into Boo Boo’s left hind quarters (the side Boo is missing his foot). Was The Light coming down from the ceiling? What was I looking at? When I enlarged the image on my computer, I could see that the right side of the Light was outlined with a blue/purple hue and some areas of the Light were brighter than others. Boo Boo’s fur was clearly visible through the Light and there appeared to be another Light form crossing over the large Light and a more translucent Light near the bed post. While I felt in my soul I had photographed The Light of an Angel, a majority of the people I shared the picture with said The Light was nothing more than a malfunction of my camera. I found it hard to believe that they could not see what I saw. It was my first taste of skepticism and doubters and the beginning of a magical journey.
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