Early August Evening at The Lake

We had a lovely time at the lake this past august.  I went out the first night to go fishing, but lost my only lure first cast.  It was one of the moments where you don't even mind the aparent set back - because you knew it was no set back at all.  I started taking pictures.  I had a really great time exploring the sunset with my camera. It was just simply fun photographing.  All shot with an 85mm lens around f/2.  (Except for last photo of grill).

I am purposefully not editing any of these photos for this post - they are all straight out of camera.  I also picked not only my best - partly because I like many of them - but also because it is nice to show process sometime.  So, here is how the evening progressed in terms of almost studying the sunset.  I had a lot fun.  Hope you enjoy looking through them.

Smiling!

"There's no way to describe it."  "You won't know until you have your own."  "Nothing can prepare you for it."  Megan and I have heard these sorts of phrases on repeat from many people over the past multiple months.   They are all right.  Nothing can prepare you for having a child.  And nothing can prepare you for what a joy it is to witness little "firsts."  They are amazing.

Peter started smiling a few weeks (about 3 or 4) back.  He now smiles all the time.  His favorite time to smile is during his diaper change.  He loves getting his dipe changed  :)  And you wouldn't think you would be a beaming proud dad about such small things, but I just am and it's fun.  Here are some photos from about 3 weeks ago.  Peter was dressed up in his new jeans and a handsome black shirt so, I took him outside on our back porch to take some photos with a mixture of evening light bounced off of a brick wall and flash bounced off the porch ceiling.