2009 Seattle Solstice Parade and 50mm in 50 Days

I am notorious for taking long breaks between blog posts (and Tweeting for that matter). This has more to do with the amount of time I'm spending away from the computer rather than what I'm actually working on. Case in point: I currently have ~10 Lightroom galleries in my "to be processed" workflow queue. I'm religious about uploading, archiving, and backing up my shots, just not so much when it comes to actually developing them. :)

But a few things recently have kicked me back into Lightroom gear:

1. I'm back from a lengthy family vacation that included driving up and down the West Coast: Oregon, Napa Valley, Pebble Beach, Sonoma, more Oregon, etc.
2. During that trip I was shooting for the relatively new 50mm in 50 Days contest over at Flickr. My goal is to post one picture/day to that group and the road trip provided me ample shooting inspiration.
3. I just started my year-long University of Washington Photography program; more on that later as I settle into that process.

So I'm going way back to my galleries from June and starting with the 2009 Seattle Solstice Parade, posted here (CAUTION: There are some nudes in this gallery). I shot the entire parade from the sidelines with my 50mm and wasn't as happy with the results from the fixed focal length. I did end up with some excellent shots, just not as many as from the 2008 parade. I'm chalking this up to getting used to fixed composition, which I've become much more comfortable with since buying this lens earlier this year. I also would have liked to have shot the parade from within, one of my goals for next year (using the same 50mm).

Now time to grab a cup of coffee and keep churning through the developing. :)