Blaise's 18 Month Photos

Somehow I've ended up doing a lot more children's photos than I had ever anticipated before. My latest venture was my Cousin Blaise's 18 month photos. We tried to do a shoot in the park, but we had absolutely no natural light and trying to keep up with my flash just wasn't providing good results. Plus, there was a storm moving in FAST.

We ended up at my Grandma's house where I just set up my flash on a stand behind a shoot-through umbrella and shot away.

This first shot was one of the few decent shots we got in the park. Mushna was holding my reflector up and to the right while I fired my flash into it to provide some directional light.



The rest were taken inside:

4th of July

We went down to Provo for the 4th of July parade. Here are some of my favorite shots:

















You can view the set here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoeyez99/sets/72157624347968265/

Pleasant Grove Rodeo

We went to the rodeo last weekend. I was excited to see what I could get since I was shooting with my 5DmkII. I shot the Lehi Round Up last year and ran into exposure issues toward the end of the evening because it just gets too dark. I was curious how the added ISO ability of the 5D would handle the lower light. I think it did rather well. Here's a link to the entire set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoeyez99/sets/72157624319961176/






I usually don't do much cross processing, but Exposure does such a good job, I couldn't resist on this shot... Plus, it's a clown.

Memorial Day Service, Provo Cemetary

And video of the Bagpipes:

Bohol Philippines

Our final big outing while we were overseas was to the island Bohol in the Philippines. Bohol is located about an hour away via another (not as glamorous) ferry ride. Bohol is famous for a few different things.

First is the Chocolate Hills. During most of the year, these hills aren't covered in green plants and look like big mounds of chocolate, hence the name.



Here are a couple other shots from the lookout:




Here's a shot of Mushna with our friends Lizzie (left) and Marilyn (middle):



Here I am with Mushna and her Dad:


These are Mushna's Classmates from college who came along on the trip with us:


One of my favorite things about the Philippines in general was some of the sings. I only got a couple pictures of the more interesting ones. I'm curious if people actually do deposit their firearms here:


The next stop was a butterfly sanctuary. Here's Mushna with a butterfly on her head.



Mushna took this shot of a butterfly on her Dad's face...


And this shot of me holding one:


This is a really bizarre flower I've never seen before. That's about all I know about it.



We made a quick stop for photos in this large, man-made forest:


For lunch, we hopped on these boats with tables and a full buffet on them. You float down the river as you eat:



These kids were diving into the water for us:


At one point you pull up to a dock and some local people put on a show for the tourists:









Once we got back to shore, we head down a bit further and visited the Tarsiers. Tarsiers are extremely endangered. These people obtain licenses to care for a designated number of the animals. While in the cage, you can't touch them or use flash photography. Since they're nocturnal a bright camera flash would probably put them in a coma it would hit them so hard.


Mushna got this shot of me right next to one:


After the Tarsiers, we visited Prony, the world's largest snake in captivity.





I'm not sure what this guy is, but I really liked this shot.



While there, I found my second favorite sign:


We stopped by this old church on the way back to the docks:







I got a couple good shots of the sunset on the boat ride home:





Bohol was fun, but it was very hot that day and we were outside a lot so I was feeling pretty beat up by the end of the trip.