Beach Portraits

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I had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend...

memorable because I was in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

just north of Cancun for my nephew Andy's wedding

to beautiful Sabrina.

Of course, this meant BEACH PORTRAITS,

and since my own kids couldn't be with us,

I was tickled to photograph my nieces.

I even brought along a bag of my hair flowers and

Joanna's favorite color is blue.

She's so lovely!

I really like to use my 50 mm lens for portraits,

and especially like to crank it open to f1.4.

But, I was really blowing out the details

with all that beach brightness.

Here is my niece Megan.

She is majoring in fashion merchandising in college,

so she brought along some flirty skirts that caught the wind.

You KNOW I love wind!

She understood my need for MOVEMENT in portraits

and was excellent at posing.

Fortunately, most young gals love to pose...YES!!

I have the prettiest nieces.

Joanna was missing her boyfriend Alex, so I suggested

she write him a sand love note.

This is where I totally blew out the details and

thought these photos were a bust:

In my camera, the sand heart was a white blob.

Fortunately, I always shoot in RAW, so I was

able to recapture the LOVE.

My sister did not really want to wear the hair flower...

But, I'm so glad she DID!

The flowers just add a nice pop of color.

Here's my sister Sally with her husband Joe

and daughter Megan.

Her best friend from high school flew in from California

to attend Sally's son's wedding.

Colette is like my sister, too!

My only photography assignment was to photograph

the gals getting ready for the wedding.

Sabrina was a beautiful bride!

Unfortunately, my camera is BAD in low light.

I had to crank the ISO to 400 which created lots of GRAIN.

But after a bit of editing, I love the photos.

It was fun being with all the gals and feeling

the wedding excitement!

It rained on the wedding day, so the ceremony

was moved to the gazebo which was just

as beautiful.

I was so happy to see Andy and Sabrina

saying their I DOs.

Here they are the day after the fun:

As we were gathering in the lobby to leave paradise and catch

our plane home, I realized...AS USUAL...I has NO photos of

my hubby and me.

That's because nobody can ever work my camera.

I had my brother snap this quick shot by the pool,

and, of course, we are NOT in focus.

Now I'm home with a sun tan and a big pile of laundry.