Exposed For The Shadows

Here’s another of Mindy at Lake Cumberland. That was a great two-day shoot last summer. Hot days, hot rocks…great model…We just cruised around the lake in a pontoon boat and tossed Mindy overboard every once in a while and took photos of what she did. She did great things, climbing and posing on the beautiful rocks that surround that lake.

Spent another great day at the beach in Florida today. I actually don’t care much for just sitting on the beach, but I do love walking along a beach and I enjoy just sitting in a comfortable room watching the sun set over the water. And I love being in a place where the temperature is in the 70sF while it is still way below freezing back home.

Downside is that we have to leave tomorrow and drive back to all the cold and snow. But at least we had a break from it for a week. Next week I have one magazine shoot to edit and get shipped to the magazine and another new assignment to shoot, so I’ll be busy for a few days.

Right now we are waiting for an old friend to arrive to go out to dinner with us. I’ll try to post one more Mindy photo tomorrow before we take off for the drive home. I’m also starting to work on an extended post about the need for skill and understanding of photography. The question I’ve been contemplating…brought on by a recent post on my friend, D. Brian Nelson’s Hotel Room Nudes blog…is just how important it is for an art photographer to understand the technical aspects of the medium? I have more thinking and writing to do before that post is ready to go here…but click on the Hotel Room Nudes link to the right and read what Don wrote about zoom lenses vs fixed focus lenses and the comment I made to that post if you want a preview.