I’ve been pretty busy with weddings lately, and in order to keep myself from falling into a creative slump, I make it a point to grab Junior and find something to shoot. Especially in the fall, because before you know it winter will be here. I don’t have any winter weddings booked so far (I’m keeping my fingers crossed, though) and I’ll need to keep this blog going until spring, so I’m trying desperately to get a bunch of pictures piled up that I can just pull from when it’s cold. Because in the winter I’m all like “Honey, there’s nothing to shoot but sticks and dirty snow.” And he’s like “Ansel Adams would never say that.” And I promise him if we can move out west where Ansel was I won’t say it anymore, either. But he just ignores me.
So Saturday evening we piled the family in the car and went for an explore. (That’s what we call it.) Eventually we ended up in a town called Lapeer, which does not have a Dunkin’ Donuts, by the way. It did, however, have a sheep, which was just hanging out by the side of the road. Lapeer isn’t exactly a thriving metropolis, but even a random sheep by the side of the road seemed a bit odd, so I couldn’t help but stop and take a picture.
I expected it to take off running, like most of my non-human subjects do when I point the camera at them, but it came closer instead. I wasn’t taking any chances after that.
Not long after stumbling across the random sheep, we found these alpacas. I’d never heard of or seen an alpaca until about 9 years ago when I found out the place Hot Husband and I worked at raised them as a little side thing, so it’s just sort of weird when you come across a bunch in a field. I wasn’t sure if the boys had ever seen any, so we pulled over and got out. As soon as I came within arms length of the fence this schizophrenic alpaca came charging up to it, staring me down with it’s huge eyeballs. There’s no telling what that thing would do to me if it got the chance.
This one seemed much more docile, and was happy to let me take it’s picture while it grazed. (That’s some food hanging out of it’s mouth.) The light was fading quickly by that time, so it was time to head home, but I still kept my eyes peeled for anything else out of the ordinary, just in case.
Happy Birthday!
Happy B-Day…
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Haha….jk….
The sad part is you probably DID send that from your iPhone. But I’m trying not to covet it.
Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Belated B-day!!!!