Girls Just Wanna Have Fuun....

After shooting the Youth Basketball pictures every night for a week, I was more than ready for some fun. Fun photography. I love grabbing my camera and just hopping in my car to find some neat place to photograph. Unfortunately, I have not had time to do that in a very long time. Shame on me. I have kind of fixed that though. Danielle is now doing "Photography Adventures" for all photogs in the area who are interested in getting together with other photogs, and playing with their cameras. I make it a priority to join the adventure when I can.

Last Saturday was an adventure at Kintai. We went up to the Kintai Castle and shot in the trees (which was really cool!) and then shot the castle. Then we talked about macro photography (I almost did a little dance because I LOVE macro!) for a little while before heading off to shoot macro. I was taking pictures of everything! Oh, it was so much fun! And just what I needed after a long week of work. Don't get me wrong, I really did enjoy taking the pictures for Youth Sports. I just don't consider that to be "fun" photography.

We started with macro shots at the top where the castle is and then continued after we came back down by heading into the Kikko Park area. There are so many wonderful things to shoot in the Kikko Park area. The more I got really close to things to take pictures, the more I marveled at the beauty of everything. Even the dead leaves looked really cool close up. I really can't wait for Spring to arrive. The flowers!!!! I LOVE shooting flowers!!!

Here are some of my pictures from that day -

I loved this spot! I thought it was so pretty and there was something so magical about it.

This was just SO cool!!!!! I took lots of pictures like this, but this was my favorite one. I should have changed my f-stop a few times to see the differences. Next time!

View of Iwakuni from the top of the Kintai Castle. What a BEAUTIFUL day it was!!!


Then, it was time for some macro shots!!

Don't know what these are called, but I LOVE them!!!!

And then I saw these berries! So pretty!!!

I took a lot more, but I think you get the idea.

I feel like every time I go to any of Danielle's classes or adventures, I learn something new. Even when it's just the two us going out for a shoot, I learn somethinig new. I love it! I love that she is so full of knowledge and she is so willing to share it with me. She doesn't just share it with me though. She also shares it with her students. Someday I hope to pay it forward.

I just realized as I went back and read this that I use the word "shoot" a lot. We always joke around that if someone overheard some of our conversations, they would think we were crazy. "I have a family to shoot this afternoon" hahahahaha I guess that does sound kind of bad. However, "I have a family to photograph this afternoon" sounds way too stuffy to me. So, if any of you hear me saying anything about shooting people, I am really talking about taking their pictures. I promise.

Oh! And on a business note. I am definitely going to offer some Cherry Blossom sessions this Spring. I just need to work out the dates and times before I can advertise officially. I am so excited about doing Cherry Blossom sessions this year!