Camping in Greenbelt, Maryland

Before I talk about camping, I want to give a shout-out to Gabe Aceves, an awesome local photographer.  I "assisted" him at a Glen Echo Park wedding that was totally rad.  All I did was load film and watch him work, but it's good to see someone else's perspective on a scene.  I can't wait to see the images! As soon as I got home around 7:30, I quickly threw on some camping-appropriate (vs. wedding-appropriate) clothes and we rolled out to Greenbelt National Park.  I lived in Berwyn Heights, right next to Greenbelt, for a few months when I first moved to DC and I had no idea this park was here.  We saw deer and everything!  Not that George stopped the car for me to take a photo... I have a preponderance of Ben pictures because he seemed to be doing most of the heavy-lifting with the fire. There was wood chopping and my husband did work on this for about 30 seconds.  Note the on-camera flash on the left and the ambient on the left.  I hate on-camera flash! I discovered that I love photographing smoke.  It's so so cool how it moves during a 1/15 frame enough to look like a mystical cloud or some kind of aura.  I think it's really neat - like below how it seems to be reaching around Sai.  Everyone looks really contemplative here.  Except for Colin, who pretty much always looks like Colin. Sitting around a fire is cool and all, but George and I are not the camping type.  We're the show up for a few hours, have some hot dogs and then go back to our clean/comfortable/well-stocked home and sleep type.  Hecks yeah.  It was a long day.  I was really, really glad for my bed.