Photo Withdrawl

Sitting at work I had an overwhelming desire to blog. What I really need to do is sleep. This was my first photo shoot after the giant Mono/Living City fiasco week. I never thought that I would be so excited to be at a driving range.
This man was by far the cutest old man that I have ever met. I really wanna show this photo to my Dad but I never see him and he doesn't own a computer but he does really like to golf.
Dick Belding is 82 and married his high school sweetheart and they just celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary... all of that is not relevant to the article but it is cute none-the-less.



Dick Belding of Lansing, who has been playing golf for 68 years, hits a ball during his golf Lansing at the new heated driving range at Forest Akers East Golf Course on Harrison Road on Wednesday. The facility is still doing some construction but opened on Tuesday and will be open seven days a week.

Back to Work, thank goodness

So remember how i promised to update about last semester, well apparently I am a big liar because as of today school has started for Spring semester 2009 and I am already 2 assignments into the semester and thank goodness, i missed shooting so much that I think that I almost forgot how. My shoot this weekend was at ELFCO and I had never been so i feel educated.

There are just too many cute kids in the world. I call this one, "take a picture of my organic cucumber". Darling.



Her name is Rosella Bills and she is 4. She was helping her dad shop. It made me want to grow up and make babies and photograph the hell out of them. Oh no, what is happening to me.

Christmas

This Christmas was strange. Maybe its the fact that everyone is broke, it was at a different house and my Grandfather is gone (even though this was a fact last year and just no one acknowledged it). Either way it wasn't bad, being with family is always good and I am happy to be able to celebrate with them, it was just different.
I had grand plans of taking tons of photos on Christmas Eve and giving some to my sister and having these great documents of memories with my family to look back on and cherish. But then everyone cancelled even though i had been cooking all day. So Andy and I just drank beer and champagne in front of the fire instead and I didn't take any photos. Its ok, this isn't a Christmas that I really need to remember, lots of strange emotions. Either way I took one photo that I liked on Christmas Day.I wish that I had taken more the window light was really pretty, you almost forget that it was freezing out.

Denver...finally

So… funny story. I went to Denver to cover the Democratic National Convention the last week of August and now it is December. I meant to post about it but I was busy and lazy and then I couldn’t post about anything else because I hate when things are out of order. So, in order to make up for my negligence I will be updating about the semester throughout winter break because school is over and my roommate left and now I have an excess of time.


Denver is absolutely beautiful, the trip was not so beautiful. It was probably the most stressful experience of my entire life. I have lots of stories but ill sum it up with the fact that I lost about 10 pounds from running around with heavy gear and being too stressed out to eat and running on little sleep everyday. The twisted things is that I wouldn’t trade it for the world because it was an awesome experience. And, did I mention that it was so pretty?


On the first day there I met a man who legitimately dresses like Abraham Lincoln on a regular basis. He doesn’t think that he is Abraham Lincoln so he is not insane but he does look a hell of a whole lot like him. His name is Everett Stadig and he does it to spread his pro-life message to the people that he meets.



The actual convention stuff was just so full of people. People everywhere. I shot future vice president Joe Biden’s speech at the Pepsi Center and I got there kinda early and thought that I had the perfect spot in a handicapped section because I could see really well and I had a little bit of wiggle room and very little obstructions. Then, I got kicked out of my seat. I missed Bill Clinton’s speech and had to wander around the Pepsi Center for like an hour trying to fight my way into a spot where I could get a photo of Joe Biden. It was terrible because they oversold the speech like whoa so there were frankly just not enough seats for everyone. This was the lady sitting next to me when I actually did have a seat.



This (below) is probably one of my favorite photos although I don’t know why. It’s a little hot, and its super busy but I love it so don’t judge. I was taking photos of the line waiting to see Obama’s speech and some guy asked me if I had a ticket. I told him that we had another photographer inside and I was just taking photos outside. And he said “do you want one” and then handed me a ticket to go see Barack Obama speak at the Democratic National Convention! For free! I took it and then realized that I had all of my camera gear and they would never let me in with it without a press pass and so I couldn’t use it. I ended up giving it to Omar and I am pretty sure that he still owes me even though I got to see Obama 2 more times after Denver.

Taylor Lucas, 7, of Denver holds a flag while waiting in line to see Sen. Barack Obama speak at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver on Thursday.

I have so many more stories about some of the fabulous people that I met but you will just have to talk to me in person about them some time.
I promise that there is more to come from Fall semester, including my adventures in sports and portraits. Either way I promise that I will do better next semester.

Rainbows

Britt and I went to coffee on Sunday and on the way we saw the most perfect rainbow. It was coming out of KFC (yes ryan made jokes about their golden chicken breading) and going into the high school parking lot. Thankfully I have been carrying my new camera bag like a purse because i am a dork and I had my camera on me. I think that it was a sign... sometimes it is good to be home even if I am exhausted and totally stressed out...at least sometimes there are rainbows.

Goodbye Summer

Its been a long summer filled with lots of work, but overall i think that it was good. I wish that I would have done more (which would have meant sleeping and sitting around alot less) I have so much stuff to do before Colorado and very little time to do it in. Oh how time flies... I wish that I could get some of it back.
(yes i know that this pic is super grainy but i like it so there)

Rock for a Cause

I shot rock for a cause about a week ago and I feel like I've been holding onto these photos forever, the article got pushed back like 3 times...crazy. The article was about a new class for managing and promoting rock bands and the students had to organize a show for charity which i think is really cool. I want to take the class myself.

Anyway. This is was happy accident. I wish that I could get light like this when I try but unfortunately i can only get it when i mess up... go figure. I should really work on that. This is the lead singer of a Lansing band Know Lyfe, Alfonso Civile. They weren't half bad, Ryan would have really like them.



This one isn't very good but i thought that it was cool anyway. Sometimes I just get bored at photo shoots and take pictures of things that I like but i know will never end up in the paper.



I went to the fair today... more to come.