Well, it sounded like a good idea....|Connecticut photographer

When I woke up last Friday and looked at the fog, I thought, "Let's get out of the house and go take some pictures at the lake". So I pick out some cute clothes for the kids, grab my camera and head out the door. When we get there, we are the only ones besides a couple of far off boats. The kids excitedly run down to the water, kick off their shoes and get their feet right in there. Of course, I immediately start shooting. As I get closer to the water though, I notice something.....a dead fish floating only a few feet from them. I turn to the left and there's another one in the sand just next to a little puddle of water with some truly gross funk (for lack of a better word) in it.
Well, now the kids are banned from the water (goes over really well). After they continually tried to stick their hands back in, I had to explain in detail which was probably too much for them, that if there are that many dead fish in the water it means there's a lot of bacteria. Bacteria means we could get really sick....like hospital sick (not that I want them to be paranoid, but yeah, I was paranoid).

So here they are enjoying the cool water...

Then I notice what's right next to them (see dead fish upper right.....also there's one floating next to them)

Now they're checking out their dirty hands....

Raigan is refusing a hug because Toby will touch her with said dirty hands....

 Raigan is disgusted with the dirtiness....haha

So you see, sometimes a simple trip to the beach turns into pictures that are more fun than I expected, even if we had to see some dead fish in the process. As soon as we got in the car, I gave them hand sanitizer and then washed their feet in the tub when we got home. Yeah, it was gross....

I've also been working on some new editing actions for myself, which explains why no 2 images are exactly the same :)