Shot the Weekend Away

One of the reasons I'm not going to Burning Man is that last year, I showed up with a camera, took over five hundred shots, and never got around to doing anything with them - other than making a little slide show on my computer, which is fine and all, but wasn't exactly the reason I took FIVE THOUSAND digital pictures last year. I wanted to learn, sure, but I wanted to share as well.

One of my consolation prizes at not going to BM was to get myself a really good photo printer and start to think a little more about What I'm Shooting For when I shoot pictures. Do I want to just capture a moment and end up with gigs of photos on my hard-drive? Or was there some more sublime mission that I wanted to undertake when I bought a digital camera in the first place?

Lately, I'm playing around with shooting portraits. Over the weekend, I had two shoots - one on Saturday in the woods near Santa Fe, and one today in and around Fenton Lake between Jemez Springs and Los Alamos. I'm not sure if I'd ever been there before, but Fenton Lake was lovely and maybe when I process those shots, I'll post one here.

{Why doesn't blogger make it easier to add photo captions? In any case, above is my friend Caldwell.
I shot close to 100 pictures of her on Saturday and I think this one is my favorite. }