Posted in Art Photography, Miscellaneous on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
This summer semester at school has been a rough one. The summer session is only 10 weeks long instead of the normal 16-week semester, so cramming two 16-week classes into two 5-week sessions made life challenging, but I survived. I felt like a steam locomotive this summer. I was a little slow [...]
Posted in Discussion, Miscellaneous on Jul 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
I was in the music section at Barnes and Noble the other night and listened to some clips from the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss “Raising Sand” CD. What I heard was different than what I expected, and I walked away and didn’t make the purchase. On my way home and during the [...]
Posted in Art Photography on Jul 26th, 2008 No Comments »
There was an Edsel car show in town this weekend, so I decided to stop by and have a look at some of these old cars. I got to thinking about why these cars weren’t successful, and struggled for a long time with the idea. These cars were produced in 1958, 1959, and [...]
Posted in Sports on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Hickory Crawdads have have had a rough time lately. They have lost nine consecutive games. We had a noon game today to close the series with the Delmarva Shorebirds and were held to two hits in a 2-0 loss that closed the second consecutive 4-game sweep of the Crawdads. The good [...]
Posted in 1000 Faces, Photojournalism on Jul 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I got the opportunity to meet Mr. Warren Yates this afternoon at one of Hickory’s Bluegrass in the Park events at Henry Fork Park. I actually met him at the last event and didn’t really realize who he was until after the fact. The local newspaper did a story on Warren recently, but [...]
Posted in Art Photography, Photojournalism on Jul 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I had a photo assignment tonight at a local hotel of the ‘after’ party from a car show that happened in town earlier today. I love old cars and have spent quite a bit of time photographing them in the past. At this event, there was a neon parade, flame throwing, and spark [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sports on Jul 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I was at the Hickory Crawdads baseball game tonight, and I decided to try out the video feature of my little Canon PowerShot G9 camera on the Dizzy Bat Race between innings of tonight’s game. This has to be one of the funniest dizzy bat races I have seen in a long time! Most [...]
Posted in Sports on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
The Latino members of the Hickory Crawdads baseball team are definitely my favorites when it comes to snapping photos for my 2008 season photo album. Ronald Uviedo (left) always seems to find his way into my viewfinder. Serguey Linares (right) has recently returned to Hickory for some rehab work, and it was nice [...]
Posted in Sports on Jul 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
In today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dejan Kovacevic writes that former Hickory Crawdad center fielder Andrew McCutchen may be headed to the roster of Team USA. The question at hand is whether or not the Pittsburgh Pirates organization will actually allow Andrew to go. McCutchen was Pittsburgh’s first round draft pick in 2005, and he’s [...]
Posted in Art Photography, Discussion on Jul 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
I read a post on Paul Lester’s blog this morning that got me thinking about my goals again. Paul wrote out a very nice response to the typical question about “How can I keep from sucking at photography?”
First of all, it’s OK to suck at photography as long as you have a good time [...]