Abby loves her rain gear. She’s got two raincoats and two pairs of boots. I’d been telling her that the next time it rains I’d take her out and let her run through puddles with her boots on. The next time it rained was Thursday morning, so we set out to find some good puddles.

We found this one at Murray Park just as another storm was blowing in. She began jumping up and down in the water while I was getting my picture takin’ crap set up. I got everything ready and the exposure set and told her jump and splash, but she said, “I don’t want to.” I asked why and she said her dress was wet and she got some mud on her knee. She said she wanted to find a cleaner puddle before she did any more splashing.

I shot this with my silver umbrella and SB600, but I don’t remember the settings. I do know I underexposed the ambient to get the weird background to go a little dark. Then I added a vignette in Photoshop.

I thought when I widened the content area of the blog it would allow me present these vertical images better, but it turns out it makes it harder. These blog templates weren’t set up to make it easy to create nice designs. I don’t know enough about CSS and all that other crap to make it look like I want it to. The wider area is nice for the horizontal shots though.