Sami Harris Photography

07/04/2025

the cutest home family session from last week🤍

06/24/2025

in honor of wedding season being in full bloom, here is the beautiful Hannah and Cayden from last June🤍

05/05/2023

“We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places…. We are "sideliners" -- coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh, that God would make us dangerous” -jim elliot

///let us be dangerous in the way that we love - in our marriages, in the Church, and in the world. let us love wisely: “first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” (james 3:17)

04/15/2023

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude” -c.s. lewis

12/23/2022

BOOKSTOOL//
I wanted to create a simple piece of furniture that focuses
primarily on the beauty of wood. I collaborated different
types of wood based upon their individual grains,
coloring, and textures and their cohesion to one another.
Initially my goal, is to take a traditional step stool design and
reinvent its purpose to a more personal and custom
function. This step stool inspired design instead serves
as a book shelf bedside table.

my first furniture piece🎉 ft. some of the v high quality bereals taken from time working on the project

10/12/2022

GLORY OF THE IMMORTAL//

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools” Romans 1:20-23

Nature is an exhibit show of the greatest artist’s work. All around us the most magnificent pieces of design and works of art are on display communicating to humanity the aspects of Him that can only be known through creating and creation. Art’s purpose is said to be expression. God himself has designed an atmosphere that He might express himself to us. We can meet God in the rustle of the leaves, the chirps of the insects, and the drip of the dew. We can meet God in the spider’s weaving, the bee’s pollination, and the ant’s building.
For God built this world, for us to be with him, and yet even in a visual exclamation of his omnipotence and divinity we turn our backs on his gift instead celebrating in our man-made design achievements.

3D Design Project 1

09/26/2022

“and so being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy”
Edgar Allen Poe//

Printmaking Attempt #1

09/18/2022

GLORY OF THE IMMORTAL//
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools”
Romans 1:20-23

Nature is an exhibit show of the greatest artist’s work. All around us the most magnificent pieces of design and works of art are on display communicating to humanity the aspects of Him that can only be known through creating and creation. Art’s purpose is said to be expression. God himself has designed an atmosphere that He might express himself to us. We can meet God in the rustle of the leaves, the chirps of the insects, and the drip of the dew. We can meet God in the spider’s weaving, the bee’s pollination, and the ant’s building.
For God built this world, for us to be with him, and yet even in a visual exclamation of his omnipotence and divinity we turn our backs on his gift instead celebrating in our man-made design achievements.

In this piece, I attempted to encapsulate the movement of the natural world that God reveals himself to us in through the complementary contrasts of geometric patterns, and organic motions visually referencing honey dripping from its comb or water dripping down jagged stones. I also sought to allude to the growth of blooming buds and sproutings pods through the base of my hanging sculpture.

I chose sewing as my primary tool of structure as well as used it as an aspect of my design due to it being itself a natural element. As the bird weaves its nest and the spider spins its web I also wanted to use my choice of adheisive as a visual part of the movement in my piece.

08/05/2022

“what greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
-george eliot

08/05/2022

“what greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
-George Eliot

08/02/2022

marriage-
as a culture we have equated marriage as the promise of love till death. while it is a promise of love till death there are aspects of marriage that love does not encompass. aspects that if ignored leave the concept dangerously fragile.

to have, to hold, to love, and to cherish

the four traditional wedding vows and yet love is only mentioned once

marriage is about love yes, but also loyalty, support, forgiveness, companionship, sacrifice

marriage is ministry it is not merely love

04/09/2020