The Munchkin's Notebook

On May 11 th ,   I got to work with Susan, who won a free photoshoot from me.  She won the session by commenting on a post on my Facebook page , thus winning a 60-minute session, 10 high-resolutions images, and one print. The post was held back until she selected her photos from the shoot. This shoot was inspired by a Pinterest picture that used a bed of flowers and dry ice fog.   For this session I used a bunch of pink and beach colored peonies, and pink tulle to create the background. For the session I used the following items: Canon 70D 18 -200 mm lens Strobes with power supply 7-foot reflective umbrella C-stand with boom arm 2 speed lights RF-transmitter Tether line Desktop Foam core board (to make a corral for the fog) White backdrop Pink tulle Fake peonies Dry ice and hot water Step stool Handsome assistant I did two set ups for this session using a large 7-foot umbrella placed on a boom arm.   In the first set up the umbrella was posi...

Day 7 and 8 – May 30 and 31 We are home from the Galapagos.   Our day started in San Cristobal around 6:00AM MST (8:00 AM EST). We did not need to be up that early but we just naturally woke up at that time.   We had breakfast, repacked our bags, and hung around the hotel till our pick up time of 11:30 AM MST to take us to the airport.   It was a short ride to the San Cristobal airport, were we waited for our 1:30 PM MST flight back to Quito, Ecuador.   We arrived in Quito around 5:00 PM CST (6:00 PM EST).   We then had about a four-hour layover till our flight back home.   Our flight to Atlanta left at 11:30 PM CST (12:30 AM EST May 31).   We arrived in Atlanta at 5:00 AM EST, were we had another layover before our flight to Cleveland. I tried to nap in the Delta lounge, because I didn’t sleep on the plane. We left Atlanta on a 10:00 AM EST flight and arrived in Cleveland at 11:45 AM EST.   After collecting our luggage and car, we ran ...