Split personality

So, I have discovered--and I think this is true for most photographers--that I have a split personality. There is semi-professional Emerald, who hauls around her heavy but important looking Nikon D2x, carefully choosing each shot and looking as smooth as possible while doing it. Then there is tourist Emerald, who weilds her ancient Sony Cybershot (which still boasts a rockin' Carl Zeiss zoom lens comparable or better than personal digital cameras you can buy on the shelf today), running aimlessly like the typical annoying tourist, taking the typical posed pictures and rigging the self timer while the camera is propped on various personal items and shopping bags. The last two weeks I was tourist Emerald and it was fun.

What follows are the four decent pictures I took prior my wedding last week, and the adventures of Eric, Emerald and the self timer on our honeymoon in New Mexico.

My two new sisters Marnie and Kayla Lemmons.

Meagan, one of my best friends from high school and one of my bridesmaids, posing in an art project I made this semester (we were supposed to change the color of something with a distinct traditional color and see what effect it had)

Helena, another friend from high school and a bridesmaid, also playing dressup.

(this is actually a typical face for her to make at me)

Now starts the honeymoon. Eric's mother's family has a semi-tradition where they go to a family cabin in the mountains of Las Vegas, New Mexico for their honeymoon. It's quiet and peaceful (and exactly what we needed after this crazy semester). They have a board overlooking the living area in the cabin where they pin boutineers and corsages the bride and groom wear at the wedding...so we got to add Eric's boutineer.

The rest of our honeymoon is represented in the goofy pictures we took using the self-timer on the camera. There are some of us hiking (yes I actually hiked):

and shooting BB guns at defenseless tin cans and pine cones:

And visiting Santa Fe, where we toured the really big church,

(does anyone know who the kid in the pink dress is and why she ranks with St. Francis?)

...and gawked at the interesting sculpture outside the Native American Art Museum,


...and where we petted $4000 fur coats (but Eric said we'd get kicked out if we took a picture) and decided that the following picture will definately NOT be ME!


...and then hiked some more.





And then we left for home and took a quick picture by Hermit's Peak on the way out. Do you see the Hermit's face???

(isn't he cute????)