M-Photo | Field Notes

  Disney World was fantastic!  We hit all four parks in four days.  We were all in and stayed at the Beach Club Resort, one of the Disney resorts near Epcot.  It worked out great, we were able to get early access to the parks and transportation access without having to drive anywhere.  I chose not to bring my camera gear and use only the iPhone for photos.  It was quite liberating to not have a backpack and gear to lug around.  Disney required masks for all indoor activities and people were wearing them too.  February is supposed to be the off season and all the parks were just jam packed with people.  I can not even imagine what it is like in the summer.  Our first day was Animal Kingdom and it was amazing! Pandora was incredible with the hanging rocks and the Flight of Passage virtual ride, where you ride a banshee - unbelievable! Africa was pretty cool too and then there was Asia and, and...just super cool! Felt like we were traveling...

It is over 2000 miles to Florida from Denver and we did it in February following a winter storm.  We wanted to get ahead of the weather and opted to add another day and more miles to the trip by swinging down to Albuquerque, New Mexico. That really didn't work out too well, we were in snow and ice rain storms most of the way.  Camera: Olympus EM1 Mark III, Lumix LX100 (590mn IR) On the way to Albuquerque we made a brief stop in Santa Fe to the Obscura Gallery to see Nevada Weir's Invisible Light gallery showing.  We did not get a chance to meet her, but got to see her work up close.  Up close and in person the prints looked almost like water color paintings. I have been following her on Instagram and just love her infrared work, she was my inspiration to get into IR.  It was a spur of the moment idea to go to the gallery and I am so glad we did. She has some really great shots in Angkor, Cambodia, I really wish I was into IR when we went to Angkor, it was so har...