Shawn Takes Fotos » outdoors http://shawntakesfotos.com/blog Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:06:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Maymont Park (Still Snapping Away). http://shawntakesfotos.com/blog/2010/06/maymont-park/ http://shawntakesfotos.com/blog/2010/06/maymont-park/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:38:47 +0000 Shawn http://shawntakesfotos.com/blog/?p=173 Recently, I’ve been spending more time going on walks, shooting aimlessly, just to see what I come up with.  I guess you could say I’m extending my portfolio, really, I’m just doing it to stay shooting constantly, if I get some great photos out of it, so be it.  Seeing the photo gigs have slowed up, I’ve been assigning myself side projects. These are a few photos I took while walking through Maymont Park.  I go through there pretty often, its an escape from the city, and only a few blocks from my doorstep.  More and more, I find myself going here, just to wander, and clear my hear.

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Friday afternoon (April 9th), I was packing my car, preparing to leave town for the weekend.  I spent the weekend shooting engagement photos for my cousin, Matthew, down in Blacksburg, VA (woohoo, go hokies!).  Anyways, any of this even happened, I was throwing camera gear, clothes, the necessities into the car.  Everything was ready to go and hit the road.  What I hadn’t planned for, was to be locked outside of my house for 2 hours, a beautiful day, and plenty of cameras to play with.  With that being said, I grabbed my camera and started snapping.  Originally, I thought it was just a way to kill time until one of my brothers showed up to let me in, but I really started to enjoy it.  Sometimes when you’re shooting for a living, you forget to shoot just because its fun.  I shot photos of anything I could find, trees, clouds, my backyard, I think I got a lot of really great photos too.  I just wanted to share a few of my favorites.  Just keep in mind, you don’t have to be locked out of your house to grab a camera and just wander, snapping away aimlessly.  So what are you waiting for?  Go snap some photos, and please share!

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