Last Saturday me and my wife joined the "Flickr Tour La Baja" folks for a one day trip down to Ensenada. This is a group of guys and gals who are very interested in photography, and who get together more or less regularly, meet at a predetermined town or area (mostly San Diego/Tijuana), and shoot it up (in the good sense of the word).
These tours are a lot of fun, but are definitely not for those who like to hop into the car and drive to the store around the corner. Aside from having some skill behind the camera, one needs to have enough stamina to walk non-stop for at least seven hours (ok, minus one hour for lunch). But time sure flies when you're having fun. You get to find a lot of interesting photo opportunities, and see how other people work behind the camera.
When you've got a small crowd of say, ten photographers, walking more or less together all over town, you kind of get the idea that the result will be ten copies of the same object. Well, it sometimes happens, to a certain degree. But the benefit here is that in the end you see a lot of variations of one single subject, be that different angles, exposure, depth of field, or postproduction work.
Most photographers are loners, so joining one of theses groups every so often is a refreshing experience. Hell, if nothing else, you get to talk about the latest lens you purchased without getting those blank stares.
I took the picture above while walking along Ensenada's black market. Despite the negative conotation the name gives it, this place is harmless. It's a long alley near the harbor, lined with fish stores, little stands selling all kinds of odds and ends, and the little restaurants that serve the fish tacos Ensenada is famous for. Rubio's just doesn't compare. Oh, and I don't own that chain.
Anyway, this little girl was sitting on a bench with her family. From her expression she's either extremely bored or extremely tired from walking allong the harbor. Either way she looked really cute.
