Post SNM Tour Day #16
A short "snap shot" blog today
Heading into Alberta once again and ever closer to home. There still is a bit of work to be done, we're not done quite yet. Our time was well spent in Saskatoon with a successful media blitz and good solid educational sessions. We're hoping we can have a similar reception in Edmonton.
It was great to see Tom again and fill him in on some of the things that have happened since he was on tour from Calgary to Regina in what seems like a lifetime ago. I can't believe what a Riders fan he has become - he almost started crying when they lost their last game making it 4 losses in a row. I guess that's what happens when you move from MB to SK - you go from blue to green.
It's amazing how few photos we're taking on the way back. Travelling at a snail's pace you see so much more, the subtlety of the landscape, sky and clouds. Travelling at "regular" highway speeds, we are so much more particular about whether it is worth slowing down or stopping to eliminate a blurry foreground. We are disregarding more than we are taking (interesting isn't it!). Going slower you can shoot photos without slowing down or stopping, perhaps this is an explanation, perhaps it's just an excuse. We are still on the road while this blogging is going on so we still have time to change this sentiment.
Random Quotes of the Day
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
Author Unknown
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.
Author Unknown
A photograph is memory in the raw.
Carrie Latet
Great to see you guys again! You are both looking awesome. Thanks for letting me be a small part of your epic journey. Words cannot express how proud I am of you both and how much I love you guys!
ReplyDeleteDid you think I was not going to read the blog...green indeed...green with envy that I am a Bomber fan!
Yes I didn't think you would read the blog
ReplyDeleteOK I admit you really aren't a big rider's fan
just a LITTLE ONE!!
GO STAMPS GO!!!
(Bomber's fan - are you kidding - they haven't won a game outside their stadium all season)
Nothing like training the eyes to recognize great photo ops for capturing beauty and life, all the time, whether fast or slow speeds in life. That to me is the secret. Just being in the now! And you guys are mastering the camera!
ReplyDeletedone today - amazing! can't wait to see you two.
ReplyDeletexox