Time for the annual and traditional summer vacation! Unlike last year’s incredible vacation to St. John in the US Virgin Islands, my beautiful wife and I are headed to Panama City Beach with her side of the family (her mother, father, brother, and our 2 nephews).
Last vacation I worked on travel and landscape photography, two genres of photography at which I am not adept. I really tried to capture a sense of place and show off the beauty of the St. John, and I think I was moderately successful, though not as successful as I hope to be.
This vacation I will be working on my documentary and portrait skills. I want to tell a story about the vacation, show the family playing, lounging, swimming, and “vacationing”, as well as get some really good portraits of my family (especially the maw and paw in law). My wife has even given me permission to do a beachside bikini photo shoot! I used Model Mayhem and have lined up a few interested young ladies for that shoot.
This morning, the folks over at Photojojo.com updated their blog with an article about road trip photography with a link to a trip planner on roadsideamerica.com. I am going to make an effort to get in a few photos of the suggested road side attractions they have listed.
Watch for vacation shots posted on my Flickr page next week!