Yet another long week. Absolutely NONE of my photos from this afternoon made it through my final cut. I broke out the macro lens and the monopod (flash, etc) and set off in search of bugs. Well I got the bugs out (literally). I had to move stuff around to get them to come out, but they scurried so fast that all the shots were blurry (that and from camera shake). There were no bees or other flying insects, I usually have much better luck with them. With the great weather we are having, I keep forgetting that it is still April. The trees have just begun to bud, we still have no leaves yet.

So, my evening was looking grim, I was out of photos, out of energy, and really felt like this wasn't going to happen. I was taking pictures of our toaster (yeah, that bad).

For some odd reason, I decided it would look interesting to have my hat and work gloves sit on our mitten tree. I left the flash on camera, just bounced behind me. In this section of our family room, the ceiling is dark stained pine, and there's that big honkin brick work behind the hat. I bounced the flash into the only relatively bright corner that I could. The lighting came out nice, I'm making a mental note to try this out on some of the family (if I can catch them).

This Red Sox cap was purchased during the 2004 season (yes, the season that will go down in history simply as "The Season"). It has faded quite a bit, so much so, that in Lightroom, when I was trying adjust the blue saturation with the mouse control, blue was not the color coming up. I mucked with the tint a bit to get the cap back to an acceptable Boston Blue.

I'll be wearing this hat tomorrow when my son & I head to the Boston Museum of Science with our Cub Scout pack for a sleep over. We actually get to spend a night at the museum. I've been debating weather or not to bring my camera and am still out on the fence. We are taking the train, so we will both have to backpack our gear in. I'd have to have my camera gear with me at all times, I can't see myself setting it down unattended. I might just bring the S3IS (and regret it later).