Turn Off

     It's been a super busy couple of weeks around here.  Just around the corner are several spring weddings so bridals and engagements have been filling my photography time. With the snow disappearing it also means its spring clean up, its amazing the strange items that can accumulate under the snow and inside the house during winter, this cleaning has been filling up my spare time. We have several horses for sale on the ranch with show and breeding season just around the corner, filling up my ranch time. It is all manageable though thanks to modern technology and smart phones.  Then I read an article about our phones....Dangerous I know; in a study it said that people now touch their smart phones on average of 300 times a day checking text messages, voice calls, Facebook, twitter, news, etc...  Ya right I thought, so I did an experiment yesterday and lost count of the times I touched my phone around 2:00 but it was already at an embarrassing number.  This experiment reminded me of a fast get away from technology and crazy scheduling I took with my son to Zion National Park last spring.  After hiking all day in the rain the storm broke and the images where amazing. I went back through the images and found a couple I had not taken the time to finish the post processing on and wanted to share them on this great rainy Friday with you.  I hope they are a reminder to you, as they are to me, that sometimes we just need to break up the stormy times in our lives, turn off the world and take in something beautiful.  So this weekend do something crazy like leave your phone at home grab your kid, spouse or friend and take a picture:-)

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