Fairly crazy day yesterday- I had an 11:30 assignment in Edgartown and a 1:30 assignment in West Tisbury (which wouldn’t be a huge deal if I had a car, but my parents still haven’t gotten their new car, which means I haven’t gotten their old car. Phoo.) Fortunately, my aunt was free to pick me up and drive me over to the Charter School after my first shoot.
Which was, by the way, super fun. The 5th and 6th grade classes here spend the last three weeks of school building little solar-powered cars, which they then race in a derby. These kids know more about solar energy than I do (hope for the future!).
Unfortunately, the sun decided not to come out that day (it rained), so the races were held indoors and the cars were powered by little 9V batteries.
I haven’t written the article yet for the event, so I can’t post that part. It’s so crazy trying to report and photograph the same thing, but I think I’m getting better at it.
I wish I had names for all of the kids I photographed, but I might drop by the Tisbury School and Edgartown School tomorrow to see if I can track those down.
After the derby, I went to shoot my first graduation ceremony! The MV Public Charter School has its ceremony a week before the regional high school does (my cousin Seneca is actually graduating IN that ceremony (hooray!), so I doubt I’ll be shooting it). The Charter School had a class of just nine students graduating, and the whole program was very much a personalized tribute to those seniors. I almost cried at one point, and I didn’t even know anybody. I’m a huge sap. It can’t be helped.