Running... Again?

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  If you know me you know there was a time about 10 years ago or so where I was running. A lot. At least 5 days a week and at least 5 miles a run. I wasn’t training, I wasn’t preparing for a race or a marathon. I just found myself enjoying the time spent running. I wasn’t obsessed with numbers, but I kept track of them all and liked seeing improvements in time and distances. It was good physical health and mental health. Then I tweaked my knee. Not bad enough that I couldn’t walk on it, just a tweak that told me I needed to back off of running for a little bit. So I decided on 2 weeks. At the end of 2 weeks I aborted a run very early as the pain was still there. 2 weeks became 3, became a month, became 5 years. 

Week 34 GPlus Project 52

Week 34 Portrait
Yurok Princess
The theme for this week was portrait, and was one I wasn't looking forward to. I generally don't do photos of people, so I had prepared to take a shot in portrait orientation. Turns out I was able to get both a portrait and in portrait orientation. This is a Yurok (Native American) princess and contestant in the 50th Annual Yurok Salmon Festival's Noo-rey-o-won-ee (beautiful girl inside and out) contest. She was unsure oh who to look at as there were more than a couple cameras pointed her way.

A little about how I processed this shot, as I feel it might throw some people off. In the original shot everything was in focus, which I felt competed with the girl who I wanted to be the focus of attention. Since my lens makes it hard to throw things out of focus with it's relatively slow f 3.5, and f 5.6 at this zoom, I loaded the photo in Topaz Labs Lens Effects. Lens Effects allows me to very specifically put what I want in focus and what I want out of focus, and I think it worked well with this shot.


You can view this, and the rest of my Project 52 photos here.

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