Goin' Shootin'

And not in the usual sense I usually use the verb "shooting". When I go out photographing, I say shooting. One of my friends, Holly, thought I needed to be educated in "real" shooting. She offered to take me out, and I readily agreed!

Obviously, these pictures are from awhile ago (*cough* October *cough cough*). I was going to blog them, forgot, and then found them again today as I was looking through my pictures. Here you have it, my first experience with shooting guns.

My tutor and the gun owner, Holly:

She is so great! She took me out to a shooting range near the butte, taught me gun safety, explained each gun, then let me at it! Too bad at this point I can't remember what each gun was called.

I sat down first for this one:

She told me it had a kick. Not knowing what to expect, I sat down. I figured if I was already on my tushy, I couldn't be knocked there :)

After finding out it wasn't too bad, I decided I could stand up.

She also let me try her pistol. It ranked pretty high in my favorites. It was also the one I had the worst aim on.

Scouting

My dad asked me to take pictures at a scouting event last weekend:

It was a bit nippy.

I took Troop pictures of each troop as they rotated through stations. I was the only girl at Krupp that morning. It really is a shame that out of those 250 scouts there that day they were all old and married or 10 years younger and a foot shorter. Dang.

I was pretty amused by observing the boys working and talking through their tasks. Maybe I find it so funny because I didn't grow up going to scout camp. The task the boys were to perform at the station I was closest to was to build a fire to cook an egg for the Sr. Patrol leader to eat. Some of those boys ate some pretty raw eggs. Some Sr. Patrol Leaders were so dedicated that they were ready to crack the egg into their mouth when they weren't able to get their fire built up in time to cook the egg. Yuck ;p. Other troops were finished and cleaned up by seven minutes.

This boy got to eat a well-cooked egg.

At another station I was surprised to see the boys trying to start a match by chopping it with an axe. I never did see the match light up with flame. I wonder if this is an urban scout myth? ;)

Here is a totem pole right next to the t.p. Hahaha, I crack myself up. Well, I hope there was t.p. in there. I never had to go bad enough to get close enough to see.

A Wintery Wedding

Originally uploaded by Act of Kate

A couple posts ago I posted some picture's of Dan and Allison's engagement shoot. They were married 2 days after Christmas in the Rexburg temple. They liked their engagement photos so much, they had me back for their wedding! :) Allison was absolutely beautiful, even if she was freezing! This was a fun shoot as it snowed during the entire shoot! After enduring cold hands, runny noses and watery eyes, this is one of my favorites. (You only get one because I can't figure out how to get more than one photo over here in one blog from flickr...) Thanks again Dan and Allison!