This past weekend I had to nip down to Florida for my grandmother’s 80th birthday, I unfortunately didn’t get any of the three days I was down to myself for shooting, but Saturday I had the honor of pulling a fairly lengthy five-six hour session to document that fairly important milestone in my grandmother’s life. It was a long day, and I had to keep bouncing between my good portrait lens and a more reasonable standard zoom for getting wide shots indoors.

Even with my typically minimalist shooting style (I prefer to cherry-pick when I take shots instead of machine-gunning), I managed to burn through my usually ample compact flash memory cards and filled my old emergency microdrive too.

But, my favorite part had to be when I finally pushed my Olympus digital camera to its limit and it made me turn it off for a moment to let the sensor cool down some. I’ve used an E-3 on and off for about 10 months now, and it took a family reunion to push it to the edge.

That oughtta tell you something about my family reunions. I’ll try and get a Florida shot or two up once I have a chance to finally get home and work through these shots.