I wrapped up my summer of guiding for the Sitka Bike & Hike yesterday. The Sitka Bike & Hike is a division of Island Fever Diving & Adventures and is a family owned business. Check out their website at www.islandfeverdiving.com This has been a really fun summer job for me over the past three years. We cater to the cruise ship visitors that come to our town and I lead three different types of tours, depending on the number of people that sign up for each. The trips I am involved with are 1) The Sitka Bike & Hike 2) Tongass Rainforest Hike and 3) Sitka Photography Tours. This was my first year to lead the photography tours and I really enjoyed it. I met some neat folks and learned a lot. My primary interest in photography lies in portraiture, but after leading these tours I am gaining an appreciation for wildlife, landscape and floral photography as well. Pictured above is a Canadian Dwarf Dogwood, which is a pretty little ground cover that grows in our area. Its neat to spend all day with people who are super stoked about visiting your hometown and people are usually in a pretty good mood when they are on vacation. For a lot of the people I meet, this is a once in a lifetime experience for them and most are eager to learn and see all that they can in their short time here. Thank you, God, for the blessing that this job has been to our family. I hope that I have been a blessing to others as well.
2 comments:
Nice photo of the dwarf Dogwood! I like the water on the leaf. Did you spray it on with a water bottle, or had it just rained? Lots of flower photographers cary a water bottle for adding dew and such.
Good job.
Hi, Matt! That is a GREAT idea about shooting with a water bottle handy - I'll have to remember that. Did you get that idea from Scott Kelby? I've actually been shooting in the rain lately. As you know, living in a rainforest, it might be even more handy if I had a bottle of sunshine I could spray on the flowers (and my FACE) every now and then! :)
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