50 years of wedded bliss!
Now that’s a long time. If he keeps this up she just might end up keeping him!
Shooting a large group can be intimidating but if you think of them as a smaller size and not 15 people, slow down, look at everyone’s pose, face, and shoot multiple image of each set up just to make sure you get at least one shot with everyone’s eye open you’ll nail it.
Ever have a bad day? A day where no matter what you do nothing seems to flow properly. The coffee pot is full of grounds, your computer has decided to slip into a coma and no matter how hard you try to get ahead on your work load, you fall further behind. Well I'm here to tell ya it happens to all of us. We all, at some point, have a bad day. A day where we wish we could hit delete and redo it from the beginning.
I love to grab my camera bag and head out for a day of not knowing where I'm going or what I'm going to shoot. A photoHuch treasure hunt! That's what I did Saturday. Full tank of gas, a large coffee and I was off. Where to.... no clue. To photograph what... no idea. Usually this results in a cool new location / subject and a bunch of new photos to pull of a memory card.
I headed west. I was thinking of rundown barns. For some reason I just couldn't get into the mindset for the hunt. Maybe I should've tried harder, because the days results were sadly disappointing for this camera nerd.
I ended up at Vermillion lakes, near Banff around 3:30pm. The worst time of day to shoot landscapes. Golden hour is best around sunrise or sunset. Still, I was determined to get something. So I began to scout for a great location.
At 4:30 the clouds began to move in from the west. Doh!
At 4:45 the clouds were having a party and were not going anywhere. In fact they had invited more friends to join in. Doh!!
I tried all the usual tricks to come up with different or unique ideas. Black n white, clouds in motion, HDR, multiplicity selfie but.... I was defeated. Nothing was turning out they way I thought about it in my head. Doh!!!
By 5, after taking a dozens of shots I admitted defeat. There would be no great fire in the sky sunset. Too much cloud cover. Time came to take my ball and go home. I threw my gear in the truck and headed for home. DOH!!!!!
Merging back onto the highway at Canmore, coffee cravings freshly quenched, I was greeted by clear skies, all the way east back to Calgary. If I would had stayed around Calgary I would of had more to show for my day then just one disappointing "keeper". Double DOH!!!
Oh well, rant over! Holy first world problems eh?!
The one and only keeper shot is below. Just click on it to see a larger view.
'Till next time, and the will be a next time.
Cheers!
...photoHuch
Holy crap, this site is now a reality!
After years of living in fear and procrastination it's time to take the leap. If we fall... we fall. Simply stand up, dust off and climb again. Let's see what happens shall we. This site is the realization of a dream. If you were to say, a few short years ago, I'd have my own photography site and would be selling my own prints; I would have walked away giggling. Well it's now 2015 and photoHuch is here. Nadene Aide, Shawna Gist, Jason Gist, Brad Barber, Greg Cox, Dave Williams and Dana Brown thank you for letting me use photos of you or your kiddos to start this site. It wouldn't have been the same without these images.
Photography is a passion. I can't get enough. I think about day and night. It's my pleasure to be able to share this with you. What's next? Who knows... but I do know this. I am thrilled just to have come this far, thrilled that the ball is in play and truly thrilled you've stopped by and had a look.
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'till next time... and there will be a next time.
Cheers!
photoHuch
