This photo was taken in Gladstone, NM on Hwy 412. I think the town of Gladstone is basically the little store we were in, which also served at the Post Office with all of three occupied post office boxes. I’m not sure if this is a good example of Bokeh for the lens, but that is what I was trying to accomplish!

Funny story, the race against the sun made quite an impression on my 6 year old as we flew through Amarillo talking between cars on walkie talkies about whether we’d make it in time. The next evening in Angel Fire I grabbed my daughter and told her I had the sun right where I wanted it and if she could hurry really fast I wanted to take a picture of her. She was in awe of her mom’s command of the sun that day, and said “Wow, mom, really, how did you do that? How did you get the sun to go where you wanted it?” Here is the sweet shot of Danielle.

And one I took about 30 minutes earlier of her Uncle and his girlfriend. It is a great example of what you can do with the lens portrait-wise, taken at 800 ISO at f/1.4 in the shade. But it also shows how two people in the portrait would have to be positioned equidistant from the lens to both be in focus! It is my favorite shot of the day.

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