{"id":5065,"date":"2018-08-28T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2019-01-26T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T22:46:40","slug":"shutter-bug-sitka-alaska-08-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"Shutter-bug \u2013 Sitka, Alaska \u2013 [08\/24\/2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It rained our last call in Sitka, this nixed our original plan of paying a final visit to the national park (I don\u2019t mind the park in the rain, but this really was a little too wet)\u00a0 – and set us to looking for indoor ways to pass the time instead. We had our final coffee and bagel at our favourite coffee shop, said goodbye to the handful of shopkeepers we\u2019ve become acquainted with over the seasons and played our requisite games of pinball (I\u2019m actually starting to win once in a while!) and then finally swung around to the Forget Me Not photo studio.<\/p>\n

Last time we got old-style photos done it was in Skagway, and the place was more interested in the rent-a-car side of the business than the photography side. It wasn\u2019t well lit and there was no real photographer there.<\/p>\n

Forget-Me-Not is defintely a different (and better) experience to that. The owner is a super-upbeat local who is all to willing to shoot for as long as you want and listen to all your ideas. She helps with the costumes (right down to the shoes) and takes the time to go through each individual shot with you afterwards to choose the ones that look best for you.<\/p>\n

The thing is, Amras and I are both in the arts, and we\u2019ve both spend more than our fair share of time on stage. Give us a set of costumes and a scene background and we\u2019ll just\u2026go. In fact, one of our photos turned out well enough that the owner said she was going to put it up on her example wall!<\/p>\n

The hardest part when a day goes that well is picking the images that you want. Had it been up to me, I would have gotten all of them (Except one, there\u2019s always one that ends up not being quite right) \u2013 but it\u2019s the end of the contract and I just couldn\u2019t swing the cost once the exchange rate was factored in, so we picked six. One of which is an 8×10 that is going to end up framed on the wall when we are finally able to put down roots after the wedding.<\/p>\n

What can I say\u2026I guess we\u2019re still just a couple of kids at heart\u2026and doesn\u2019t everyone love playing dress up once in a while?<\/p>\n

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