A Family that Snaps together...

The absolute best thing about photography for me is that my wife and I both feel so passionate about it. There isn't nights where I say,"Honey, I think I'm heading out to the bar with the guys...kiss the girlies goodnight for me" , and I've never heard from her, "Babe, my girlfriends and I are going out shopping for the day...there's frozen dinners in the freezer." We are either spending time with our crazy kids doing something, with our cameras in tow, or the once or twice a month that grandma watches our little ones we figure something out that involves photography...whether that means just driving around looking for something new and cool to shoot, or just staying at home and playing and working on lighting.

The other great thing is how different our styles are and how much fun it is to see each others take on the exact same subject. Last night (which the photo above is from) we packed the monkeys up and headed over to Hocking Tech to hang out with the horses. I could shoot those beauties everyday...what amazing animals! Heather stole the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 right off of my camera before we left, she's pretty sneaky like that, so I had the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 on mine...so just right there you know you are going to get some different, unique perspectives. We shot around 150 photos a piece, was only there for 1/2 hour or so, and then couldn't get home fast enough to put them on the computer and compare!

She's an awesome photographer. She's is so good at zooming in tight, getting personal with her subject, getting you right into the action. I tend to frame a little wider, seeing more of the whole story. Sometimes one works better than the other.

But she won tonight...

Jeffrey