Week 15: Spoiled

Where else can you play outside right before a rainstorm in your pajamas but Grandma's house? (At least he has shoes on!)

We just got back from our annual summer pilgrimage to Missouri to visit family. This year was a bit special because we attended a family reunion for Kristi's family. Kristi's grandmother turned 90 this year, so a lot of that side of her family got together to celebrate and catch up. (lots of those photos here for those who are interested) We had a nice, but short visit with my side of the family tree and then headed to southern Missouri to spend time with Kristi's side.

While we didn't spend much time at Grandma and Grandpa's house, they certainly found plenty of ways to spoil Jonah on the road. For the first time, he actually switched over to Central time - so he got to stay up WAY past his normal Eastern bedtime and he came back to NYC an absolute chocolate addict. He'll be going through detox shortly. Then, this morning he got to play outside in his PJs for quite awhile AND take a ride on Grandpa's tractor - in his PJs! Oh well, I guess that's what grandparents are for.

Photo - this is, yet again, my 24-70mm at 24mm and f/2.8. I under exposed the photo by 2 stops to emphasize the sky and then fired a bare flash camera left that I was holding in my left hand while holding the camera in my right and not looking through the viewfinder. Phew. . . lucky shot. Actually - you get to know what your lens is going to "see" after awhile and don't always have to have the camera to your face to compose the shot you want. The other note on this, for those who are still reading, the flash is fired via a Canon flash on the camera (which did not actually fire) set to control a wireless set. That enables high speed sync - this was shot at 1/3200 of a second - well above normal sync speed.