Susan Solo – Photographer | Traveler | Adventurer

Tag: Photo Friday

  • Photo Friday – Tina

    Photo Friday – Tina

    Driving or riding in the car is no easy task for a photographer. I’m constantly wanting to pull over and take photos of random things, and if I stopped every single time I wanted to take a picture I’d probably never get anywhere. So over the years, I’ve tried to become more selective about my stops and my requests to pull over. Thankfully, I’m also able to put my photographer brain on the back-burner while I safely navigate my vehicle. Animals get me nearly every time though.

    When my family and I were riding around one afternoon in Colorado, I squealed in the backseat at the sight of this adorable llama posing alongside a fence. My dad dutifully pulled the car over for me so I could take a quick snapshot with my point-and-shoot. Llamas on farmland in front of foothills just aren’t something I see on a daily basis at home!

    “Tina, eat! Eat the food.”

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  • Photo Friday – One of the Locals

    Just a short and sweet one today! This cute kitten was spying on me in St. John while I was photographing some flora around the villa, so I turned my camera on her!

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  • Photo Friday – Jupiter

    From my extensive collection of un-blogged photos (I hope to get caught up sometime soon!), here’s a July 2007 image of Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse as seen from the boat when Chris and I went deep-sea fishing in Florida. I totally caught a fish, too. (And then returned him back to the sea.) The photos of me fishing are incredibly unflattering – I had no idea I’d have to sport a weird giant belt to support the fishing rod. But I promise to post them eventually. I have to prove how big the fish was, right?

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  • Photo Friday – Schultz

    Photo Friday – Schultz

    While searching my film archives for a set of photos (the missing USS Arizona Memorial images from a Hawaii trip – found them!), I came across my black-and-white darkroom portfolios from photography school in 2003. Oh gosh, I had a good laugh flipping through my books! Some of the work is pretty awful, but I had such a great time in that class and it was fun to reminisce. The darkroom was one of the few places I could get so absorbed in my work that I’d completely forget to eat lunch. I would enter the darkroom in the morning and emerge late in the afternoon smelling of stop bath and fixer, realizing that 5-6 hours went by without a break. Chris and I have talked about setting up a darkroom at home someday. I’d love to get back into it.

    There are a few prints in my darkroom portfolio that I actually do like, and I especially love this one of Schultz, the miniature dachshund my family had when I was in high school and college. I don’t necessarily love the image for the print quality (the scan is even worse – please ignore the blocked-out shadows), but this image brings back the memory of how loving and loyal he was. As he got older he was difficult to photograph because he absolutely hated the camera (it made him anxious), so I took this picture while he was napping. Of course, he woke up when he heard the camera click, but I love the sweet sleepy look on his face before he had a chance to get nervous.

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  • Photo Friday – Carlsbad Caverns

    Photo Friday – Carlsbad Caverns

    Obviously this isn’t a photo I took, but I discovered it in my photo files and thought it would make a fun post. I’m three years old here, sitting inside Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. I’d love to say this is where it all started, where I found my sense of adventure and was taken by a case of wanderlust, but I honestly don’t remember. There were plenty of trips before this one and so many after. My parents can tell you exactly when I fell in love with adrenaline rushes and thrills (at an amusement park when I was two – I cried in anticipation of a log ride, but then couldn’t get enough of it), but I don’t think there was a big moment where I realized how much I love to travel, so perhaps it was there all along! I hope it’s something I’m able to enjoy for a long time.

    Also? Was my big head made for bangs or what? I’m not sure I can get away with that look now, but it seemed to work well for me in 1980.