So I’ve been a little slow-motion with the blog. Perhaps one might even say absentee. It’s my blog, right? So I should be able to do whatever I want. I can post as often (or as seldom) as I like. Ok, that’s enough of that. Here’s a proposal for 2014 – I’m going to actually write in my blog. Weekly. What do you think of those apples? Well here goes.
Oh, and, being a photographer, I couldn’t possibly write a blog post with the word “proposal” in it without sharing this lovely marriage proposal. I was hired to photograph the Run or Dye run in Washington, DC.
I was photographing at the finish line of the race for a while. While I was standing there, plenty of excited parents came up to me and asked me to make sure to get a photograph of their child. Now while I’m a pretty accommodating fellow, when I’m working, I’m working. And with instructions like “shoot as many people crossing the finish line as possible”, I don’t think every excited mother at that race giving me her daughter or son’s description was really necessary.
One mother, however, did catch my attention. She told me (over my shoulder while I was working) about her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend who were running the race together. Their dog, waiting for them at the finish line, had the daughter’s engagement ring in a box on it’s collar. Obviously the daughter did not know this.
I was interested in this story. So I tuned in, watched for her, and waited (diligently photographing folks crossing the finish line all the while). And then it happened.
So perhaps I started the year with two proposals. This is going to be a good one. And good luck to you two as well.
