Last week on June 9th, I went for a trip up to North-West Florida to visit my family for a week and while I was there I had a chance to take some photos of the family. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to take all of my stuff with me so umbrellas, light stands, adapters and the like but I did manage to use my mom’s tripod for her video camera as a make shift light stand as well as my little flimsy pocket size tripod that I found at the local goodwill.

After finding a couple adapters in my bag to attach the tripods to the flash hot-shoes I was all set to roll out some hard lighting. Not the best type of lighting for little ones in my opinion but it was better than strapping a flash onto the camera in TTL mode. If you know me, then you know that I like to shoot my flash off camera when ever possible so I always try and find a way to be a dedicated Strobist even when most people wouldn’t bother. All in all I walked away with some some beautiful photos of my 2 nieces as well as a couple of my 2 cousins.

As well as getting to take some photos of my nieces that I haven’t seen in a few months, I had the opportunity to shoot some concert photos at Pier Park in Panama City for a band called Bonerama. The experience was definitely a learning one and I got a few great band shots I think but it was a lot more difficult than I would have imagined it to be. Not to mention I was shooting at night… The band was great though and if they happen to be in your area anytime you should definitely check them out.

In the end I had a great time with my family and walked away with a number of photos that I was quite pleased with. I couldn’t ask for more. If you’re interested, more photos from the trip can be found on my flickr website. check em out!

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Just wanted to announce a new personal project of ours. Visit Florida State Parks was launched yesterday. Still working on implementing the google maps into it though. it seems to be a little tricky. But our long term goal is to visit all 160 state parks in Florida and write something about each. Apart from being a great motivational tool to get out to new and different places to take photos, We hope that it will be a great informational resource to people as well. So check it out and see what we’ve done!

Today we learned that our model Bianca’s mother had fallen ill and that she would not be able to attend this weekend. Hopefully we will be able to set a date sometime soon as Pam and I are really excited about this opportunity and Bianca if you’re reading this, we hope your mother gets better soon.

On a side note, the folks at Wesley Chapel Nursery & Landscaping Co. have graciously offered their waterfall to us for a shoot. We’re really excited about that as well. We don’t have a date set or a model lined up or anything but i wanted to get permission from them if the opportunity should come up and iIm quite sure that it will. it’s just a matter of when. So if any of you readers out there wanna throw on a white dress or a bikini or some board shorts and maybe play in a man made waterfall for an hour or two, feel free to contact us and let us know.

That’s about all we have for now i think.
Happy shooting.

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