Point and shoot.

In photography, some of the best pictures take minutes if not hours and days to shoot. For those of us who do not have the time to devote to taking these types of photos, we usually point the camera and push the button. This is known as point and shoot---a very applicable name, and one that is probably used for 99% of all photographs taken.

The best part of using the point and shoot method is you get to take more photos; when you are in the mountains as we are this week, you really don’t want to set aside hours to get that perfect photos, because all it takes is a cloud, bad lighting, or some other variable you can’t control to make the photo one you would delete.

I have never really been a nature guy, and we are staying in a cabin (it sleeps 19 people, has 5 bathrooms, and is nicer than any home I would or could ever imagine living in) so “nature” is not 100% applicable here. The idea of roughing it is we don’t have wireless Internet connection (we have to drive 200+ yards for it) and the signals on our Blackberry and Iphone’s do not allow you to do anything more than talk on the phone. How did we ever live like this??

But all you have to do is step outside and your world turns from palatial to unbelievable.

The scenery around here changes throughout the year; this past winter they had 600 inches of snowfall and even when packed down, it still measured 10 feet high. As spring takes over, the snowmelt makes it’s way down to lakes around the region, including Lake Tahoe, and introduces an entirely different look to the area. Crystal clear blue skies, warm days, and cool nights. The one draw back are the mosquitoes---for some reason I didn’t think they were found here, but I was wrong. Very wrong.

I have never been here in the winter but I can imagine shooting pictures is fairly easy to do; similar to shooting in the summer the scenery jumps out at you and says, “Take my picture.” It doesn’t require extensive set up, it can if you choose to get the ultimate photo you will treasure for life, but for a lot less time, you can take hundreds of photos that are almost as good. I know which I prefer.

The photo above was taken just steps from where we are staying; you step outside, you do your best to avoid the mosquitoes, and you point and shoot. The outcome is spectacular---at least the way I see it. I hope you do too.

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