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First volleyball match
I shot my first volleyball match of the season tonight at Argenta-Oreana High School. I always forget how loud high school volleyball girls are… the shrieking noise that their lungs pump out is louder than a dozen Sun Chips bags. You’d think I would learn.
The lighting was weird tonight. Everything was nice and even at the beginning of the match, but towards the end everything started to shift colors and brightness. I’ve seen gym lights do that before, but usually it’s all the time and not gradually getting worse. Who knows…
Not a bad night for being rusty… I get to shoot my first-ever cross country meet tomorrow. Don’t know how I’ve gotten out of that in my time at the newspaper.
Early Harvest
The weather around here has been hot and dry, so the farmers are getting ready for an early harvest. I had an assignment for the newspaper to take pictures of a local farmer making preparations to harvest his crops.
I don’t know much about farming, so I’m thankful that David, the farmer I was sent to photograph, was friendly and gave me a crash course on harvesting feed corn.
David made adjustments to the corn head and inspected the augers inside his combine while I was there. He also showed me how he tests the moisture levels of the corn.
I almost sounded like a farm boy there, didn’t I?
- Year sure makes a difference as farmers prepare for earlier harvest (Herald & Review)
Water Aerobics
Last week I had an assignment to shoot a water aerobics class at the Decatur Athletic Club for a health story. Usually these are indoors in crappy light, so I grumbled about it for a little bit. I changed my tune a little bit when I realized that it was in an outdoor pool… nothing like getting paid to work on my tan for an hour.
This was my first assignment after coming back from a long weekend trip at Lake of the Ozarks, so it was kind of frustrating to watch a bunch of people swimming and not be able to get in the water myself. Oh well…
- Pool exercise has benefits for all ages and abilities (Herald & Review)
Prep football — Week 1
Tonight was the season-opener for area high school football and I got to shoot a good game between Central A&M and Unity. The weather was fantastic. The light was nice. It was a good way to start the year off.
I had some frustrating computer problems while transmitting from the sidelines, but hopefully I can smooth those wrinkles out before next week’s game.
My company-provided laptop is a power hog and the battery usually dies right in the middle of transmitting. Tonight was no exception. I bought a power inverter for my car and it works great for charging camera batteries, but every time I plug the computer in the car’s fuses blow.
Apparently my car uses mini-fuses for the cigarette lighters and they can’t handle the load. I’m hoping to have the inverter wired straight to my car battery this week, which should fix the problem (fingers crossed).
There are more photos in a gallery over on the newspaper’s site.
- Raiders’ worries warranted (Herald & Review)
Sneak Peek — Ryan and Maranda
I met Ryan and Maranda at Allerton Park for a nice morning of engagement photos… It turned out to be a great shoot. Great couple at an awesome park with moderately cooperative weather. The day was even better after Maranda gave me a plate of cookies.
Here are a couple frames that I liked before I was distracted by cookies.
