Wow! Has it been 5 days since I’ve last written? I guess so. Well, I’m in Florida at, what else, a basketball tournament. The tournament is actually finished, save one fun game.
Of course I have my cameras with me, but I’ve not been taking many pictures. I’ve been making room for other things. Usually when I awaken in the morning, I go out and shoot; however, I’ve been feeling that that leaves me a bit unbalanced. I could go out and shoot six or seven days a week, just because I love it so much; however, I really need to get in some exercise.
Exercise has never been something that I desired to do. To be quite honest, I put it off whenever I can, but the truth is, I need to do it and I ain’t gettin’ any younger. So, for the past two weeks, I’ve been going out every morning, sometimes with Hobbs, sometimes not. Since I’ve been here, I’ve gone out every morning at walked a minimum of 1 hour. This morning was a 2 hour walk, netting me some 7 miles.
As I really hate to give up my morning photography, I took my D300 with me on the walk. It made the walk so much easier. I stripped it down to the bear minimum by removing the vertical grip as well as the L-bracket and placing on a 50mm lens. After a while, I hardly noticed the weight. I took off down Irlo Bronson Parkway, as I have done each morning, to see what I could see.
Most of what is to be seen on this street is some serious traffic and lots and lots of advertisements for Disney ticket sales. Also, the street is lined with the ubiquitous tourist gift shops each hawking cheap t-shirts and all manner of memorabilia.
During my walk I was thinking about my impending temporary move to Charleston and how I will have to create a new life, at a least 5 days per week. It’s pretty easy to get in a couple of hours of walking the morning when you don’t have to go to work. Now that I’m getting back into the work world, I guess that I’ll just have to make adjustments. 
Looks like I might become an evening photographer and explore that light. Exercise in the morning, work during the day, shooting in the evening, sleep at night. Sounds like a full schedule to me!
Well, tomorrow morning we leave. We are heading for my wife’s favorite place, Seabrook Island, SC. As a matter of fact, she’s on the way there right now. It is her first time driving there alone. We will meet her tomorrow afternoon. I should be able to share some good beach pictures with you in the coming days.
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I am a “power walker”/runner. I tried taking my camera along for my walks but I found that my pace slowed far too much so the “power walk” became little more than a stroll…not very effective. So now the camera stays at home when I go for my “power walks” or runs. I hate leaving it behind but I need to keep it moving for my walks to actually fell like I’ve gotten any sort of cardio benefit. The biggest bummer though is that it almost never fails that I will come across a wonderful photo op and of course, no camera…I can’t win!
That collage is really well done. I love how you did that.
It sounds like you have so much on your plate and that vacation in SC is well deserved. Enjoy!
I am thinking of running 5K on Aug23 in charlotte. they have option to run/walk 5k or just 1k. interested in joining?
Hey Paul,
Looking forward to seeing what your lens finds to capture there in your new location. I hope the new job is a good fit.
@Raj: The 5K walk sounds like something that I’d like to do. Although, I usually walk about 8 or 9 K every morning, so that 5K should be not a big deal. That’s about a 45 minute walk for me.
I couldn’t imagine only walking 1K, nor could I imagine running that far! 