Well now!!!

Dad is back on shift.  Mom is taking a break.  Yep, Mom is off to have a weekend of relaxation scrapbooking so I will take the helm for the next few days.  Not sure whether anyone is aware but with the amount of rain today, we may be at the helm of ship.

So many wonderful moments this week.  I have managed to relax a little I think. We have had a very busy week but both Traci and I have been home so it has made that business easier.  Good thing to as it seems that we both needed to be able to get a few things sorted out this week.  Still there were some odd things that happened and other things got dropped from the to do list.

I am thinking a bit about this blog thing and what is it that I am doing on here?  I am finding it a bit like my diary of thoughts.  A place to put things maybe to read them and share them.  I am hoping to have some focus some clarity to what this spot is meant to share with everyone.  But for now it is just what I have in my head.

This past couple of days I had some time to take portraits of the girl.  Not idea that the weather is not working for me.  So we had to come inside.  But that is the challenge is it not.  Photography is something I really enjoy.  I love looking for things to photograph.  I have said that before.  But I have been tooling my thoughts to this grad photo business.  I must admit I am not sure why but my photos have left me a little underwhelmed.  I am not as pleased as I hoped.  The main thing is I wanted to try some flash stuff.  I wanted to get creative with it.  To be honest my photos will need to be retouched to fly.  But my thought when I saw them was hey what did you learn?  What did you think they should look like and why are they not looking the way you expected them to?  It was about growing and getting the experience.  I am critical of what I create photographically.  I like to get things right in the camera.  But if this was simple I would not be interested.  There is a challenge to this and that is part of the enjoyment.

I feel better about my photos when I look at it based on how the experience makes me better at photography.  So once the rain is done maybe the flowers will start to come out for their photo shoot.  I will once again play with the light and try my hand at being creative.  Also we are planning an outdoor shoot with Sinclaire for her grad dress when that happens I will hopefully get better shots.  But hey she is a great model she is probably the most photogenic person in our family.  Which makes it easy on my end.

So have a great weekend hope that the rain is not too much at once and that the sun shows a few hours of light for the warmth factor.