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This year we decided to go and cut down a fresh tree as opposed to going to a lot to buy one.  Save money and have us a grand family adventure.  And secretly in the back of my mind I was thinking wow this is going to be great shooting, I am going to bring a lens I never use so I can play with it, and  I can probably do a nice photo essay for my blog.

Well not so much.

I typed out the whole adventure, and lets just say that I am not a gifted written storyteller.   While the story itself is somewhat amusing to me, it is probably not so much for anyone else.   So I spare you all the gory details, but the gist of the story is that I had this romanticized notion of what cutting down the family Christmas tree would be like.  And instead it was like a bad Three Stooges version, only not funny.  Selecting a tree was way more painful than it should have been.  The tree we cut down is a scraggly misshapen thing with a few big gaps and we later discovered that it gives Cal, Matt, and I a weird rash if we handle too long.  And I did not get the wonderful rich photo essay I had hoped for.

However, I am trying to embrace the concept, put forth by fellow photographer Matthew Lyon’s in his recent blog post, don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good enough.

Looking back on yesterday, it was still fun and still an adventure, and precious time together as a family.   Plus I got to shoot a goat and a pig and a chicken.

Enough said

This post was also is inspired by  my good friend,  Divine Miss K and her misadventures with Santa.

DC saw our first snow for the winter.  Just enough to have some fun, but not too much to create the untold havoc that typically accompanies snow in our region.  Still, my out of the way, one-way street never saw a plow or a salt truck.

Now that the Holiday portrait shooting season is over for me, and I wait for the final last bits of my client’s orders to come in, it is great to get out there and just shoot for me, my kids in the yard doing what kids do in the snow — snowball fight!

As I start the process of closing out the yeasr I have great plans ahead for 2010.  New prodcuts offereing, new focus and hopfully more blogging!