We survived

We survived Big Bend Nat'l Park...pics coming soon!

I'm uploading the gazillions of photos from my camera now. Eric will be in Seattle for the next two weeks on a work assignment, starting Wednesday, so I'll have plenty of time to sort amongst the heaps of images and pick a few representative samples that reflect our trip the best. It will take some time though.

Unfortunatley, on our last day, I accidentally had the ISO setting (similar to film speed for non digital cameras) set at 1600 (fastest...for low light conditions) instead of 100 (slowest...best for great color saturation for landscape photography). The night before, I was trying to shoot the stars (which were absolutely stunning!!!) so I changed the ISO to 1600 and then I forgot to change the setting back to 100 before shutting off the camera. So unforntunatley the next day, I shot about 50 images with the incorrect setting which ultimately results in a grainer, less saturated image. Boo. I woke up at 1:30 that night, in a panic, remembering that I forgot to make the change the night before. I was too scared to check so I went back to sleep and checked the next morning to find that my nightmare was true. Oh well. Lesson learned.

I haven't uploaded those images yet (on my computer) but I bet that they are less than ideal. I'm too scared to look. So much time and energy went into them, but obviously not enough thought. I hope that they're salvageable.

Wish me luck...

By the way, Big Bend was amazing. We had an awesome time. More to come.