On Thursday I went to a fundraiser auction for a high school theater troupe. The group is going to Fringe festival in Scotland in August, and is about $5000 short of the total $60000 they needed. This particular event was “Men in Kilts,” in which some of the high school teachers and alums paraded around in kilts while people bid on their services (mind out of the gutter), which ranged from guitar lessons to gardening to architectural consulting (I promise this last one is true).
I was not the ‘main photographer’ there (the Gazette accidentally sent two of us, and Ray asked to cover it, plus the Times had their guy taking photos as well), which left me free to take whatever photos I wanted to instead of doing straight event coverage. Overall, not my best assignment—I struggled with terrible lighting and my camera’s general low-light issues, and while I had brought my flash, I was hesitant to use it in the face of there being two OTHER cameras there both using flash. I would post a photo of what happened when all three of them went off at the same time, but I don’t want to blind you.
Here’s my favorite image from the whole thing:
And here are some outtakes from the event (including one with my fellow Gazette photog Ray in plain sight):
This is SO CLOSE to being what I wanted it to be, but I hit the shutter a half-second too late.
