So I wanted to kinda show off a series I did of some shots I got while I was in Santa Fe over the 4th of July.  I haven’t had much time to work on any of my personal projects lately so I’m really glad I got the time to work on these.  I’ve just been so busy working on those shots from my engagement session with David and Erin, that I really haven’t had much time to work on anything else.

Oh and I guess I’ve been busy redesigning my whole website around my blog theme.  Be looking for that soon, because I should be done with the redesign here in the next couple of days.  As everyone knows I’m simply not a writer, having a blog is proof of that enough.  I don’t do grammar, and I can’t spell.  Really I just do photography, and I love that

So I was walking around the plaza in Santa Fe on the 4th of july, and I saw this girl and her rickshaw and decided to get a portrait of her.  I’m a big fan of these candid portraits.  She of course saw me shooting, because I stepped right out into the street to get this direct shot of her.  I frankly think she half enjoyed having her picture taken.  That and I was pretty obvious because I was using my 70-200 with the hood on, so my lens was huge.  Not exactly the kind of lens that is great for staying under the radar.  I had to crop this shot way down, because I didn’t have time to zoom in as much as I wanted to, and I’m still amazed at how clean the shot is after cropping it down so much.  I probably cut out about 2/3’s of the shot.

This shot was taken at 1/1250, IS