Zoom In, Zoom Out: Week 23

Sarah and Caleb left yesterday afternoon, and our house feels very empty and quiet this morning. Life with a two-year old is certainly a change for two empty nesters, but do we ever enjoy having them here! We spent a lot of time with Matt, Betsy, and Skylar over the weekend, and I’ll be back with photos later this week. The party at Shadow Lake was fantastic: perfect weather, beautiful setting, tons of happy people! I took my camera, but didn’t take any photos at the party. Too busy having a good time. Fortunately there was a professional photographer there so I’ll eventually have lots of photos.

I’m nearing the end of an eight week course called “Beyond Your DSLR” at our local Community Darkroom. I’ve really enjoyed it, and will be back to post more about it when it’s over. This week’s assignment was to choose a subject and take ten photos of it. I’ll share just four of them here (I actually took a lot more than 10), for this week’s Zoom In, Zoom Out. This is the Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge that crosses the Genesee River. Much of the walkway in this area is lined with parks and restaurants.

I totally forgot there is no railing or fence along this walkway on the Genesee River. Fortunately, Sarah and Tracy were able to monitor Caleb’s movements while I got my photos! 

For an earlier assignment, we were instructed to use Raw + JPeg and set our cameras to Monochrome. When you upload the photos you get a black and white image as well as a color image. I’ll be using this setting frequently.

I’m off to see what I can do to organize myself for the rest of the week. My list of projects seems endless, and like Rinda, I’m getting ready to try some block scheduling as outlined here by Ali Edwards. I’m hoping it will help me get to some projects that just don’t get the attention they need.