Reflecting On Their Future

While waiting for this lovely couple in the park in Santa Barbara I was testing out my new flash trigger with my SB600. Now I needed an adapter to hold the flash to the light stand, so I bought a Zebra Flash holder. It was flashing, and that was great. I fired off some test shots. Carried it around to different spots and looked at it and it appeared that even though I switched the SB600 over to LOCK, so I assumed it would stay in place. But it looked like it was almost coming out. So, as an engineer, I wanted verification on this, so I tapped it, and it fell to the concrete and broke. Seconds later as I’m holding my broken flash in my hand, the couple comes up hand-in-hand and asks, “Hey John, we’re ready to go!” My sarcastic greeting was, “Hi, I’m John your professional photographer. I just broke my own flash, so wait here while I go to Samy’s and spend $230 and get a new one so I can capture some happy moments.” Well, wasn’t the exact words, but they were totally cool with it, so went to Samy’s, bought a new SB600, and got back there and had a pretty good time. And then went down to Hendry’s Beach, and frolicked at sunset Honestly I had a pretty good week of shooting, which you’ll be privy to during the week. I’ve been taking weekends off of Flickr to concentrate on real life, or at least, getting one. LOTS of more shots from this engagement session on my updated blog