So often I am asked to bring my camera along to outings or events with friends to capture the moments of fun, and i am always happy to. I think it is when I unexpectantly bring it along when I feel that creative freedom to do what I want... Yesterday my family and our good friends, The Duque's, headed to our annual beach day to San Clemente to just relax and enjoy the day. Although I worked 14 hours the day before (and was EXHAUSTED), I grabbed my camera at the last minute as I was running out the door. I didn't shoot much, but when I did, it was so much fun! It happened to be San Clemente's Annual Ocean Festival, so we had a blast watching all of the sand creations being built, surf competitions, and walking around. The pier had a Vintage Woody Car show on it and a really nice man offered his car for me to shoot a few frames of Tristan: Katie: 11 going on 20.... RJ, Cole, & Katie...fishing on the pier: I have been so bummed that we are not going on our family vacation this year, so it was really nice to be able to take this time to enjoy the day with my family. It is times like these that I am humbly reminded of how precious these moments are and how lucky we are to have the family and friends that we have!