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Walk Your Worries Away At Least For A Little While

The other day it snowed and after finishing up some things here in my office, I just had to get outside.

Have you ever had one of those days, weeks or months where you have been doing everything and nothing seems to be going your way?

Well, so far, 2018 has been just that. And yesterday I needed to take time off even for just a half hour to myself. It was so beautiful outside, the snow just clung to everything like lace. I’ve so fortunate to live in an area that has places to walk or have mini hikes and this one is literally across the street from me. If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you’d have noticed that I go here often. Sure, I could go in my car and hike someplace else. But I didn’t want to do this. I just wanted to grab my camera, put on my jacket, hat, gloves and boots and just go. Not worry about traffic or anything.

I just needed to get lost in my surroundings, to NOT THINK about my worries. I know that I can’t run away from anything, but I just needed this small break.

The pictures in themselves aren’t spectacular, and my camera was accidentally in jpeg, not in RAW, I found that out when I started to edit them in Capture One Pro. I had to reset the camera recently and in my mindset, I forgot to set the image capture to RAW. Thankfully the jpegs straight out of the camera were well exposed, however, I was sitting here all set to edit my RAW files and then I was like jpeg? Aww man! Eh, just add that to my list and move on.

Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,
Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Winter,2018,ice,snow,winter lace,Deirdre Ryan Editorial and Commercial Photography,New Jersey,Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II,Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Weather Sealed (Micro Four Thirds),lens,

My list of worries just got bigger today, and I’m working on ways to shorten it, but I do try my best to get outside everyday and take my camera with me on some kind of a walk around the block. It doesn’t matter what kind of camera that you use, just be creative and don’t think.

What do you do to help clear your head? Please comment below, thanks.

The First Day Of Snow

This winter has been so far very mild and hardly any snow at all. So when it does come down, we get a “little” excited around here. I took my new Olympus E-M5 MarkII out in the wind and falling snow with the Zuikio 14-150mm f4 lens, the combination makes this perfect, as it’s weather sealed and freezer proof. But it’s a slow lens…and once you’re used to faster f2.8 lenses then having a slower lens is hard to work with at times. But, I’m saving up for better glass and renting when I need them for this camera. In the meantime, it’s not like I don’t have excellent camera equipment already, I do have pro Canon full frame DSLRs and fast L glass. It’s just nice not to have all that weight every once in awhile.

The day was pretty overcast and grey, and I wanted to test the focusing with the snow. So I went across the street from my house, and down to the creek. It was bitter cold out!
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 It was 25 degrees and very windy outside! But that never keeps kids and adults from sledding down the hill! I ran into some friends of ours and took some shots of them.
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Black's Creek,Bordentown,NJ,Nature Preserve,Olympus OM-D E-M5II,Photo By Deirdre Ryan Photography www.deirdreryanphotography.com,snowing, The next day, the sun was out, but it was colder, the temp was 20 degrees but felt like 15 or less! 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Overall, the camera did really well, I was surprised! Some shots were missed, and a little soft, possibly my fault and getting used to the system. But I’m really pleased so far.