Ferns of Muir Woods ~ and other serendipitous occurrances....

After completing nine batches of Summer Soaps, we set about updating our website to give you pictures with descriptions of all the new soaps.  This is a lengthy process, we gather related materials for each soap to be photographed, we use a table that swivels to adjust the lighting ( I prefer natural outdoor light over high voltage studio can lights), some of the soaps are photographed using some of the raw materials that went into their making.  Ok, you get the general idea....I have a large amount of stuff, outdoors, in June and begin to take pictures...everything is going really well, getting some nice light (it is early in the morning and the light is great because there is a slight overcast) the soaps are behaving pretty well and then I get to the Ferns of Muir Woods Soaps....I gaze around and see the pretty newly sprouting fern fiddles right in front of me...so I stack a couple of the FMW soap on a few pebbles in front of the fern and lay down to get a good perspective and closeup shot...oh, this will be a great shot, fern fiddle, mossy little rock, I am changing the lens settings to macro to really zoom in...click...not quite right and a bit out of focus....click....better, but not getting the fern fiddle in the right part of the pic., I squirm over a bit to adjust my angle on the shot, soap begins to slide off rock, fix that...ready, focus...sphhhhhhhhhh...what the  !!!!!   Water spraying directly in face, all over soap, SPRINKLER SYSTEM GOES ON.....a totally GOT ME moment, I try to compose myself and be in the moment ~ take a pic ...but NO! ~ MY CAMERA is getting really wet ....get out, get UP, RUN!!!  Laughter, stupid look on face....throwing of towel over sprinkler head and one more picture.  That is the picture ....out of focus but with a story...sometimes those moments are the best ones.  It made me think that The "other" Ferns of Muir Woods would have liked a nice dewy morning, they would have been all about enjoying the moment, and so that is why I felt the picture should be used ~ as is.  The soaps just get used in my shower/bath after the photo shoot and I must say they are really nice soaps....the fragrance is musky, with the feeling of being near the ocean that comes through from the kelp used, the day was just starting and there are more pics to be taken, updated and shared with you.....hope you enjoyed your day, your NOW!  With LOVE ~ Terra Soaps