Most of my summer days are spent pretty much the same way. An hour or two in the studio editing. Working in the garden with Jane and T, back to the studio more editing or marketing, lunch and chores with Jane and T..they walk the dogs, back to the studio. Make dinner, go swimming or go to Tristan’s baseball game. If I am lucky I get to work out around 10pm, to Bill Marh or Oprah or something.  It’s a round robin of chores, studio, garden, lake, that starts when I wake and ends about 12 am ish.  It is a rich, fast, abundant, crazy, gorgeous, life I get to live with them and at times, frustrating. They are preteens, on the cusp and are talking back and challenging, and to cover all of this, I bring my Fuji s7000. It was my first digital camera I bought from Costco 7 years ago. 6 mega pixels, raw format, video, manual modes and a hot shoe. I only shoot in manual and raw on this camera. It has a delay, but I am so familiar with it and I can usually time it. All of these images were shot with my Fuji.  I don’t bring my mark 111 or 5D or 30D. Especially in wedding season. I worry something will happen and I won’t have them when I need them. The Fuji is actually a bad ass little camera. It comes everywhere with me and it preforms. Besides it was my first and I am a loyal girl. I will keep it and use the heck out of it til it dies.

Butt Lake Days