A little advanced planning might have made this significantly better… like, say, bringing a longer lens than a 50! Or getting to the viewing spot just a few seconds earlier and getting the thing not backlit!! But in either case, it was awesome to see. We live in such a neat place. I was lucky enough to see Discovery launch for the last time and I was glad to see her come on home to Virginia.
I’m really hard on my cameras. Lenses, I coddle to death but camera bodies get banged around, dropped, rattled, bumped. And because I like to have a camera on me at all times, it tends to be the one that can sustain the most damage. Therefore, my “bang around” camera is the D80, demoted from main camera to backup camera and finally to “oh, do I still have that?” camera. So it sits in my purse and comes out when I’m bored or on the metro and cursing myself for not doing more street.
I was recently contacted by a lovely young woman I met at the APW book signing event. She wrote me asking for advice about photography, about being a business-owner, about the DC photography scene. While I feel hugely unqualified to give such advice, she said she didn’t know any other professionals, so I was happy to share whatever I’ve learned on this crazy journey.