Awesome assignment- I was photographing the high school golf team at Farm Neck, which is right on the edge of Sengekontacket Pond, which itself empties into the ocean (it’s the pond in Jaws that the shark swims into). As if the scenery weren’t enough to seal the deal, I got to drive my own golf cart all over the grounds. YES.
There’s a month-long fishing derby going on on the Vineyard right now. I don’t usually shoot the fishing assignments, but the regular photographer was off-Island this weekend, so I got to go photograph the spinoff Kids Derby this morning.
I wish I’d been in a Kids Derby when I was younger….although I probably wouldn’t have cared much for the 6 a.m. start time.
Cheyenne Tilton of Edgartown eyeballs the size of her freshly caught scup. Tilton judged the scup to be too small and opted to throw it back rather than bring it to weigh-in. Entrants in the derby were allowed only one catch for weigh-in.
Tony Giambattisti, left, of Oak Bluffs helps daughter Indigo put fresh bait on her line before she casts off. This is the first year Indigo has entered the derby.
Parents and children line the Steamship Authority Wharf in Oak Bluffs during the Kids Derby. The Derby began at 6 a.m. and ended before ferry service from Oak Bluffs began for the morning.
Anthony Bernard waits as judges measure the size of his freshly caught seabass. Bernard caught his fish just as the derby was ending, but managed to get a weigh-in nonetheless.
Tyla Ben David enters the winner’s circle to receive her prize. Ben David won first prize in the 8 and under division of the Kids Derby.
Some photos from the Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts “Remember 9/11” ceremony last Saturday morning. The moral of this assignment is “Ivy needs a lens hood for her 20mm. Pronto.”
But, as is often the case, my favorite image came from right after the ceremony. The little girl, Savannah, ran right over to her uncle Jeremy, who is captain of the Chilmark Fire Department. So cute! So cute I’ll ignore the fact that it’s a little soft and post it anyway!
In addition to my regular photo and semi-regular photoreporting duties, I’m now the official High School Sports Reporter. At least until the end of the month, after which…I really don’t know what’s happening. I’ll keep you posted!
This weekend there was an invitational cross country meet and a girls’ soccer game. I haven’t shot cross country (or, “How many different ways can you shoot people running?”) since, well, high school, and soccer has never been my thing, so I was happy to have the chance to get more chances to shoot the sports.
I’m also a fan of working the high school beat because my cousin is a sophomore at the school and knows EVERYBODY (plus, she was on the cross country team last year). Not hard to do when you’ve grown up with everybody on this tiny island, but man, does it make figuring out names that much easier. Thanks, Texe!
Teammates cheer on Michael Osborn as he wins the JV race.
Kassidy Bettencourt outpaces her opponent to the finish line.
Thorpe Karabees nears the end of the JV race. (P.S. What is the finger thing he’s doing? Is that a runner thing?)
Emily Cimeno and Shelby Ferry congratulate Sam Oslyn on his medal.
Max Miner crosses the finish line in the boys varsity race.
I like this one the best, since it also sums up the game (in which the Vineyard defense was pushed to the brink by the North Plymoth power offense) nicely.
I don’t know how high schoolers do it.
Last fall I did a project for Picture Story about the Hickman High band, which practices four times a week at 6:30 in the morning. So I had to get up at unseemly hours just to get myself up to the school (this was before I had a car, so I had to walk). But I was only doing that for a week, not a whole football season. I don’t think I have that kind of motivation.
Of course, then, I was assigned to do a story about Hell Week at MVRHS- which is when the athletes do their preseason training. The field hockey team starts practice–yes, starts–at 5:45 in the morning. They don’t stop until past 8:15. The soccer teams are a little more sane; they start at 6:30. But still!
I admit I gave up completely on the 5:45 thing (reason #2353 why I don’t play field hockey). That was when I headed out the door to go up to the practice. (Besides, the light’s terrible at 5:45…right? right?).
This was taken WITH the lens hood on. Yep.
I was asked to make a photo essay about teachers and administrators preparing for the first day of school (which was today).
One select, one outtake:
Oops. Haven’t blogged in a while (and there are still a ton of photos from early August that I haven’t gotten around to posting…). Here are some more photos from the fair!
You could not pay me to go on this thing.
It is a sad yet true fact that I haven’t done any multimedia work since my final 30-day project was turned in last December. I was too busy last semester with my thesis to even think about side work, and the Gazette doesn’t publish multimedia on their web site.
I’ve had this lovely Olympus LS-10 recorder that I bought myself for graduation for some time now, though, and I decided it was high time I used it for something other than just doing interviews (besides, I’d rather take notes during an interview. I don’t like transcribing).
I was assigned to do a feature story and photos on Drumming on the Beach last month (it ended up being a section front! Very exciting). It seemed like this was a story that would also lend itself well to audiovisual work, so I went into the shoot with this in mind (for the record, it’s kind of tricky to shoot, report, and gather audio all in one night. But it does get that journalistic adrenaline going…).
I’ve never done any multimedia work where I only had one take’s worth of material to work with—I always go back to reshoot or reinterview. If I were going back, I’d do certain things differently here, of course, but I am okay with how this turned out.
Let me know what you think!
I know, I know, my last two posts have been livestock photos. But it’s fair season; I can’t really help it. I’m going to post the non-animal photos from the fair in the next couple of days (:
Anyway.
I probably would have photographed this event even if I weren’t covering the fair for the paper. Draft horses are some of the most awesome creatures on earth, as far as I’m concerned. I think this is because I have an idea in my head of what a horse should be—what its proportions are, how big it is, etc, etc—and every time I see a draft horse in person it just blows this concept right out of the water. Every time! You’d think I would have altered the preconception to include draft horses, but I guess things don’t work like that.
On that note, here are some images from the draft horse pull yesterday afternoon. I left when the teams’ load got up to 8800 pounds (EIGHTY EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS! Unreal).
Okay, guys. We all know how cute piglets are, and if you’ve ever seen ‘racing pigs,’ then you know how cute they are, too.
But this just takes it to a whole new level.
I’m the designated ‘Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair’ shooter this weekend, so I was up at the fairgrounds for a while this afternoon. I was about to try getting on the Ferris wheel for an overhead shot when I saw the crowd for the racing pigs, and detoured. This was a good decision.
After a couple of land races, the ante was upped by adding WATER to the course–the piglets had to swim through a little pool before getting to the Oreo treat at the end. The first group, which were Florida hoglets, were totally unbothered by this and just plunged right in.
But the next set, the Yorkshire piglets, didn’t want anything to do with the swimming pool (one of them actually cheated and zipped back to the starting gate before the handler could stop him).
And then…triumph!
