I did my very first freelance assignment for the Gazette last Memorial Day, reporting and photographing the annual parade.
This year, I was just doing photo duty, which was a huge relief.
I also got to photograph at the Memorial Day picnic, which was very Rockwellian.
Went to the MVRHS junior prom on Saturday (probably could have gone incognito and worn my old prom dress, but I opted for standard photographer black instead). It was the first time since…I don’t even know when…that I’d actually used my flash for an assignment, and I was a little nervous about how things would turn out.
I lucked out, though, and arrived to find that the venue itself (the Beach Plum Inn in Menemsha) had low white ceilings—perfect for bounce flash. As an extra bonus, it was overcast (shocker!) that day, so I didn’t have to worry about shadows in the outdoor photos.
I stayed for the entire thing, from the pre-entry Breathalyzers to the announcing of king and queen, and am glad I did. The last photo was taken as Eva the prom queen was boarding the party trolley (party trolley! there were disco lights and fog on board!), and I very much like how it turned out. Hooray!
Fact: The boys’ face-off isn’t nearly as much fun to shoot. But again, I love that they utilize more of the behind-the-goal space, because then they get closer to me!
Motionblurred from handholding, but something about the way they’re running makes me laugh anyway.
Still working on my lacrosse shooting. Still prefer shooting the girls’ game to the boys’, although I do like the way the boys tend to make more use of the space behind the net.
Both teams had home games this week, so I got to do extra practice. Yay!
Colonel Michael Halt recently returned to the island from a 15-month deployment to Afghanistan with the Marine Corps Reserve (he had previously served for seven months in Iraq in 2007). Yesterday Mr. Halt, who is the principal of the West Tisbury School, was officially welcomed back by his students.
I WISH I had been more to the left for this photo. Oh well.
I used to do track in high school, and was pretty bummed to find out that the team here doesn’t compete in pole vault, which was my event (I was awful at it, but MAN was it fun!). But I still like photographing meets.
I’m not used to shooting in pea-soup-thick fog, though, and it gave the photos a strange look. Oh well.
I have yet to figure out how to get a decent tight shot of handoffs during the 4×100 (I did get *a* shot; it’s further down). The 4X400 is much easier to shoot.
Can you tell these guys train together?
Another few of those “had to pull off the road immediately to take it” photos. Fog makes everything so pretty. Also, thank goodness for those daffodils; I was starting to think we’d never get any spring flowers around here…
