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5.13.2012

Missionaries... and a Funny Story

 I've been thoroughly enjoying taking photos of super handsome young men getting ready for their missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It's such an exciting time for them, and they just look so good in a suit!

So, this is totally unrelated, but I have to share a funny story with this short post... Friday I went to the park for a picnic lunch with my bff, Tari and her two boys. We got our stuff out of the car and we were looking for a place to park our blanket and chairs and Burger King (hey, the little guy wanted it ;)... I was looking around everywhere... at the trees, looking at the position of the sun, at the different sides of the building... and all of a sudden I started laughing at myself. Do you know what I was doing? I was looking for the light... looking for the sweet spot for taking photos. When I told Tari, she said she wondered what I was doing, and she laughed with me. Yep... I am officially an insane nutty photographer. Apparently I have to sit in yummy light to eat a burger and onion rings.

Photographers: do you find yourself incessantly looking for good light, even when your camera is nowhere near?

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  1. JoieMay 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM

    OMGOODNESS! I do it all the time...and toddlers do not share my affection for the perfect light. They have no patience with me...I always find myself staring at things especially in the golden evenings.

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  2. KristiMay 13, 2012 at 6:42 PM

    OH I love this post. I think being a photographer makes you look at everything in a whole new light. My neighbor told me that when I was taking some bridals in the field next to her house she had to explain to her husband that it wasn't the field that I liked, but the sunset behind it... I laughed it off, it wasn't actually the sunset behind the field that I liked, it was the tall dead grass that the sun was just glowing off of... That field is beyond gorgeous. I am beyond grateful for having my eyes opened to the beauty all around, even in a "dead ugly" field of grass. :)
    p.s. I LOVE these pictures. Missionaries really do have a special light about them.

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  3. MindyMay 14, 2012 at 6:25 AM

    Joie and Kristi, I KNEW you two would understand! ;)

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  4. FeliciaMay 14, 2012 at 7:31 AM

    LOL! That is hilarious. Makes me feel better about quilting in my head every time I see a cool pattern in someone's temple dress during a session.

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  5. CharlotteMay 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM

    Ha ha. Thanks for sharing.

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