When friends call

I am trying hard to not start this sentence with "so".  I will however reserve the right to use the word within this document a few times.

Our weekend was jammed packed despite having an afternoon and an extra day of vacation in it.  I was still able to be so busy I am going did I have a weekend?  The best part is that it was a fun time, I managed to get out of the house and put the camera into gear again.

So the first plan was a trip to banff, I have yet to spend time photographing out in banff, that is an area that so many great photos are created and I am not going to try to put myself in that realm.  I did however manage to get out there we did a quick hike and a sadly the colours that are so wonderful on those hills failed to show.  It turned out to be overcast and grey and at the end of it all it was not that good for photos.  Or was it?  I guess this is where I change my attitude and say it is always good for photos.  That is the challenge to photography, not every moment is perfect it is you the photographer that must capture that moment and create that image.  So what did I do?  Took some photos, not sure yet if I can manage to make a great image out of them but I am sure it is going to be fun to see what I can do.

So after our afternoon in the park we headed home, I took Traci to the movie, we went to the cheap theatre always good for something.  We saw a movie that was definitely different it was not what I expected but good movie in general.

As we are going home my phone buzzes and my coworker, another avid photographer and world traveller.  Alerts me to the fact is is an a full alert for aurora's that night.  Full on red alert.  So in 99% of the moments I would go no thanks it was a long day.  I again changed my mindset said screw it lets go.  So that turned out to be another drive across the city out to cochrane area and then we had no visibility so we were basically looking for the green glow and had little hope of finding it.  At that point we either go home or take pictures.  We went with take pictures.  The other awesome thing is that Caitlin and Dani have so much fun doing this and Traci came with me it was great.  Out of the box moment.

It is great when somebody calls you for something that turns into something fun and exciting.  Many times my phone rings for work or for the usual stuff.  I loved the fact it was not the usual stuff.

So when friends call you hopefully it is not the usual stuff.