Timing is everything

Sometimes I hate the fact that it's part of my style to take a ton of pictures.  So, I'll tell someone to start walking and I snap away like crazy.  The bad part is, when I get home, I have to go through hundreds and hundreds of pictures, zooming in on every one to make sure the eyes are in focus.  It takes a long time.  So when I take 2,500 pictures at a wedding, it takes hours and hours and hours to go through all those pictures and taking out the ones where the eyes aren't in focus.  Anyways, the good thing about snapping so many pictures is that it increases your chances of capturing something like this:

• her foot off the ground
• her glancing over
• a tiny grin on her face
• her hand touching that cedar tree

The shot before this and the shot after this aren't even close to being this good.  So when she walks 15 feet and I take 20 pictures, I get one good one.  I'm fine with that.  Ansel Adams said, "Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop."

Maddie & her Daddie

This is one of my favorite pictures.  Sometimes things just work.  I asked if she'd be embarrassed to get on his back and she said no, so they did this, kind of walked around for a minute, then I told her to look at me.  And when I hit that little round button on top of my camera, this is what I get.  Well, after a few minutes spent with this picture in Photoshop, this is what I get.  And this is why I love photography (and songwriting).  You take a bunch of pictures (write a bunch of songs), and sometimes you take one (write one) that just stops you in your tracks and when people see it (hear it), it touches them.  I love my jobs!!!

a year and a half in the making

Yep, it's been a year and a half since I've posted anything.  I'm a terrible blogger.  Oh well. . .here's a picture from a recent wedding I shot.  I'll try to post a little more often than once every 16 months.