Megan Abigail Chandler, Charleston Mercury, September 23, 2010

Most of us had parents who taught us to thank our Maker each night as we put our heads on our pillows and drifted off to sleep. Thank him for the sunshine, rain, family, friends and the food on our tables. But thanking him beyond the basics has been the source of blessings for N.B. Baroody and his wife Margaret. They’ve known travel via their work with medical missions, and they’ve known beauty and goodness beyond what most people know in their lifetimes. Because of such benevolence, they thought nothing would be more awesome than using their passions, for which they had gifts and talents, to share with the world. more...

The Unexpected Visitor, complied by N.B. Baroody and M.H. Baroody, is a collection of black and white photos mixed with appropriate quotes, Bible verses, and narration. N.B. Baroody contributed the photography, and his wife Margaret (M.H.) wrote much of the narrative. Throughout this collection of photos, the authors reveal pieces of their own story as a couple. more...

The Florence Regional Arts Alliance Gallery will open “Celebrating N.B. Baroody” from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
The 37-work exhibition features silver gelatin photography by the late Dr. Baroody and a special photograph of Baroody in his studio taken by Dewey Ervin.

In addition, the launch of the recently published “Unexpected Visitor” will continue at the opening, and Baroody’s widow, Margaret, who wrote the narrative, will be on hand to sign copies of the book.

Naseeb and Margaret Baroody found each other late in life. After losing their respective spouses in 1989, they grieved separately and together and eventually built a new life when they married in 1991. As a cardiologist, Naseeb (known to friends as N.B.) traveled around the world on medical mission trips, always with his camera and often with Margaret. After he retired, they put together a book of N.B.'s photography supplemented with text from his wife. more...

We want to shape things, mold things, have a pattern, a purpose and a plan. But life interferes.

Then it is the unexpected visitor, the unguarded moment that does the molding and shaping.

Black-and-white photographs from the Lowcountry and around the globe capture this message in a new book with a devotional narrative. more...

The title for the late N. B. Baroody and his wife Margaret Baroody's book "The Unexpected Visitor" centers around the underpinnings of a pier on a most foggy day.

N. B. sums it up by saying, "It is in God's grace that these images emerge, sometimes in very surprising patterns, people or places. This print is a marvelous example of that grace.

"This photograph was taken during a dense fog, requiring special technical attention to the positioning of the tripod, and the adjustment of the lens. Just as I tripped the shutter, the shore bird walked into the frame, creating the title, 'The Unexpected Visitor,' in my mind. more...