Happy Easter everybody. I am not religious but my family still gets together for the big 2. Christmas and Easter and I will be on my way shortly for Easter Dinner and an egg hunt where I will be competing with my 2 year old niece… She’s going down.
Last weekend I painted Easter Eggs with my other niece and nephew. But when I sit down for an afternoon of arts and crafts, I commit. Which is perfect for me because my mother-in-law loves finding elaborate arts and crafts tools every year and the only kid who plays with them is me. In the time it took the rest of my family to dye and decorate 3 dozen eggs, I made two. This is one of them and it’s St. Thomas themed.
When my nephew Owen asked me why I was taking so long with one egg I told him that “It’s about quality, not quantity.” He replied with “what’s that?”
I also have a few more shots I’d like to share from our vacation. This one Kara took while I was cleaning the lens.
These are from the ferry ride over to St John for our hiking day.
Last but not least are some of my favorite portraits I’ve ever done. Not because of the result, but because it was an idea that was floating around in my mind for a while now.
Basically Kara and I sat on a small path next to a fairly busy road in St Thomas and set the camera on a tripod. I set the camera for 30 second exposures – meaning you have to sit as still as possible for 30 seconds, and all the headlights going by lit our faces and created really cool strobes behind us as they passed. That’s why our faces are blurred out, it’s impossible to stay perfectly still!
I love coming up with something and testing it out-not knowing how it will turn out!