Chasm Schmasm

Hurry Angie! Take the picture, I can't hold it much longer!

A cute picture of my boy.

After dance, lunch and a quick cleaning run through the house (still grossly lacking), we decided to embark on an afternoon adventure...a little outing to Standley Chasm. How exciting! I've wanted to go since I saw the beautiful photos from Fred and Jason's trip a couple of months ago. And of course, this would give me a great opportunity to play the photographer bit myself. You see, I'm trying to learn the tricks of the trade. After being gifted a nice digital Cannon that will let me manually adjust the settings, I've been diligently studying f-stops, shutter speeds and the camera's mechanics. But I haven't really had much opportunity to put it all to the test.

With visions of Fred's lovely photos dancing in my head, I eagerly anticipated the trip. Jason and I discussed ISO settings on the way up. You know Jason, seems to know something about most things, and even though I haven't seen him adjust any camera's settings in the 10+ years we've been together, I wasn't surprised that he knew what he was talking about. And of course he spoke to me with that authoritative voice of knowledgeable teacher speaking to lowly, uneducated student. Men!

Well, let me tell you, I was sorely disappointed. And since denial is a normal state of being for me, I blame the Chasm. And the lighting. And the camera of course. It could never, never be user error! That would be just too depressing!

I took lots of photos of trees (they all looked so cool when I was stumbling past) and plenty of my family's retreating backs (I was too busy constantly adjusting my settings to keep up). None really scream out at me. Most are too dark and the coloring seems a bit off. It's a mix of the overexposed, underexposed and downright uninteresting. But I had fun.

Double click to see the fruits of my labor. No laughing or tsk-ing allowed. Like I said, it wasn't really my fault.

Standley Chasm