Living and Breathing Photography

I spent much of Labor Day Weekend

helping my husband’s cousin buy a new camera (I bought one too!), get started using Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop, and going out to make a few photos with our new cameras. It was fun, challenging, beautiful, and tiring all at the same time.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
― Marc Riboud

I feel a renewed sense of purpose and enthusiasm for my photographic endeavors. And I can’t wait to go out with my camera again.

Happy Labor Day!

I hope that you are enjoying this steamy (in Minnesota) Labor Day weekend. I am working on catching up on some house stuff as well as playing with my new camera, which I love, love, love! It is a Canon R6 Mark II, a mirror-less follow-on to the Canon 5D Series camera that I’ve used for many years. The lens that I got with this camera is a much better lens than I’ve had before and the camera has built-in stability and many other features including being a little smaller and lighter than the Canon 5D.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
― Ansel Adams

I also bought an adapter so that I can use my older D-style lenses with the new camera. I’ve tried all of my old lenses on the new camera and they work beautifully.

Early Sunday morning it was still cool enough to go over to French Regional Park with my husband’s cousin. It was fun showing her this place that I love so much. Clouds covered much of the sky so the early morning light was gorgeous. I made photo after photo of a rocky area beside the lake at the end of the path. In the warm morning light the rocks and ducks that were in the area were strong black shadows against the light-lit water.

I also spotted a feather along the path that had a dark heart pattern in it that intrigued me.

All in all it was a great weekend! There is nothing better than living and breathing photography. But I’m feeling a bit like I need a nap today after all of the weekend activity.