3 Tricks to Taking Awesome Pictures in the Full Sun

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It's Bluebonnet season here in Texas! And they are all over the place. It seems that each year when the bluebonnets blossom everyone is striving to get those perfect pictures in the bluebonnets. I'm not one to pass up a good photo opp so usually every year I hop on the bluebonnet train.

This year the location I picked was apparently spotted by MANY other photographers because when we pulled up there were already at least 2 dozen people in the fields taking pictures. Because I wasn't willing to go trekking around to find another good location I rolled up my sleeves and joined the crowd.

We started taking pictures at around an hour before sunset. Which is usually my favorite time of the day to take pictures but I quickly learned that I was going to have to use some tricks up my sleeve to capture a good picture because a) the sun was brutal in that wide open field and b) there were so many people in the background that I would have to somehow avoid so they didn't show up in our pictures.

Here is a picture I snapped of a few of the people we had to side-step. :) ...

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