Fan­ta­sy­land

Walt Dis­ney World is get­ting closer to fin­ish­ing its expan­sion of Fan­ta­sy­land, so it may be time to head back out to see what new photo oppor­tu­ni­ties await me. I know it’s still going to be a while before it’s done, but it never hurts to run a scout­ing mis­sion and start think­ing about a few shots.

This shot is from the last time I was in the Magic King­dom so far this year. Although I have an Annual Pass, I tend to skip the sum­mer months. It’s just too hot and crowded to be enjoy­able for me. Look at all of those peo­ple. Now you know I’m not kid­ding when I talk about the num­ber of peo­ple who walk in front of my shots. Don’t they know I’m an artist? Per­haps not. There were actu­ally a few of us on this evening, lin­ing up side by side with our tripods, wait­ing to shoot the fireworks.

What we didn’t know, or at least I didn’t know, is that a num­ber of the fire­works were explod­ing behind us. I guess you never think about that sort of thing when you’re watch­ing the show from the front of the cas­tle. Get behind it and you sud­denly find out that you’re in the shitty seats. Except, of course, there’s no place to sit.

Now that it’s Sep­tem­ber, the crowds are start­ing to thin out before the hol­i­day rush. It’s one of my favorite times to wan­der around the park. I may not take my cam­era on the scout­ing runs, so you’ll just have to imag­ine what kind of pho­tos I would have taken had I brought my camera.

Who am I kid­ding. Every­one knows I’ll lug my cam­era out there. The only thing we don’t know is who will stand in front of my cam­era right as I click the shut­ter but­ton. It’s nice to know there are con­stants in the universe.