Posted in 1000 Faces, Photojournalism on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »
I attended a lecture at the Catawba Science Center on Saturday evening given by Dr. Seth Shostak, the Senior Astronomer of the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Institute. I didn’t really know what to expect from this lecture, but Dr. Shostak was quite entertaining and informative during the entire lecture.
Dr. Shostak discussed [...]
Posted in My Town, Photojournalism on Aug 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Lenoir-Rhyne College held a celebration today to commemorate their upgrade to university status. I was wandering around looking for interesting photo ops when I ran across this student wearing one of the new T-shirts. I normally have a hard time finding interest in photographing people from the back side, but this one combining [...]
Posted in Sports on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Today marks the first official day of football season in the area. All of my friday nights are booked between now and approximately Thanksgiving with high school football. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really end at Thanksgiving because basketball season will be underway by this time as well. Friday nights during the school year [...]
Posted in 1000 Faces, Photojournalism, Sports on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Hickory, North Carolina is not a large town by most standards. The population is about 40,000 people. We’re not large enough to have the NFL, NBA, or MLB sports. We do have our share of high school and small college sports, but we are also fortunate enough to have a minor league [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Sports on Aug 16th, 2008 No Comments »
One of my favorite parts of being associated with Minor League Baseball is the opportunity to meet the new guys each year. On rare occasions like yesterday, I get to be the first photographer to catch a new guy in action. Yesterday was Gordon Beckham’s debut professional baseball game. Gordon was the [...]
Posted in Discussion, Miscellaneous, Photo Walks on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
My local camera club has field trips, but most of them are either too expensive for me or held at times that I can’t go. I do enjoy shooting with other photographers occasionally, so I decided to form a group of local people who want to get together on a monthly basis to shoot [...]
Posted in 1000 Faces, Photojournalism, Sports on Aug 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I got an email press release this morning from the Hickory Crawdads indicating that Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman, Adam LaRoche, would be playing in Hickory with the Crawdads tonight. I sorta found that to be just a little odd. I checked my calender, and it’s not April 1st, so I figured it must [...]
Posted in Art Photography, Discussion on Aug 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
As a photographer, I realize that the learning never ends. Once you think you know a lot, you realize how much you don’t know. I tend to read a good bit on the subject of photography, and I read regularly. I spend practically no time reading about equipment. Reading about hardware, [...]
Posted in Discussion, Photojournalism on Aug 6th, 2008 No Comments »
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I went to my camera club meeting this evening to listen to a special guest speaker. When I read the club’s preview of the meeting, I thought I was going to get to see some of the same images I’m used to seeing on CNN and FOX News related to [...]
Posted in Discussion on Aug 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
I have been asked this question before. I remember it specifically on several occasions, and I remember my lame answers that followed. This subject was refreshed in my memory the other day when I read a post on Paul Lester’s blog that brought it to my attention once again. I don’t think [...]