Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone.

I Still Hate PCs...

...but I have gotten mine back up and running. So I'm quickly backing everything up and buying an external hard drive.

Up in Smoke

I Hate Computers

My hard drive died last night on my PC, just as I finished up doing most of my end of the year contest stuff. So now I'm back at square one on my contest entries. I also lost all my templates for my website, so I will have to build it back from scratch. I hate PCs I need to buy myself a mac. Oh the pain. I guess that will teach me to back up my shit more often.

Rock Doves

Old School

Last night my assignment was to shoot the Hip Hop Legends concert. Whodini, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and MC Lyte were some of the acts. With almost all concerts we cover I only could stay for the first couple acts because of deadlines.

Salvation Army Toy Giveaway

Market House

Tears of Graduation

This girl started shedding tears during the National Anthem during her college graduation, which I found a little strange. But it got me out of there quick.

5K Run

5 photos in 2 Parks in 45 minutes.

Today I had the unfortunate pleasure of shooting warm weather features today for a story on the uncommonly warm weather. Not the best story, but it was easy pickings and who can complain about being outside in 80 degree weather in Decemeber. It ended up taking only 45 minutes to get the five pics I used.

Stand Alone

Everyday at my paper we have to find a feature photo for the second page of the local section. And usually they are a pain in the ass, so I stop at the first half-way interesting thing I see and try to make it work. Here is my attempt on Sunday, which I spotted on my way back from the Lady Guadalupe Procession.

Lady Guadalupe Procession

The Shriners and their zippy little go-carts.

I had the pleasure of photographing the overly long Fayetteville Christmas Parade. You can imagine the excitement. A little over two hours of repetitive floats and bands. Then off in the distance, I hear the whine of go-cart engines. The Shriners and their little go-carts were making their way down the street. They moved their cars around the street in a organized military fashion as if the US was ever invaded they would be there to fight off the enemy with their go-cart driving skills. For some odd reason I look forward to them. This is the only part of parades I can tolerate. I'm not sure if it is the comical aspect of grown men riding around in miniature cars or that I envy them and wish that I could be zipping around in a go-cart. Maybe I should just join the Shriners.

Phil "The Magic Man" Wartena

Since I'm a lazy a photographer, I have to rely on the kindness of other photographers to hook me up with shots of friends. Such as this one, from Ashley Garner, of Phil Wartena attempting to pull a table cloth out from under a row of beer bottles at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Not surprisingly security kicked everyone out of the hotel suite soon after this.

Check out the magic of Wartena at his blog, The Visual Burn.

Row of Tractors

Nothing exciting, just a row of tractors.

Something Funny

I saw this bumper sticker plastered on a newspaper rack at a gas station, somewhere in South Carolina, on my way back from Atlanta. There must have been something funny about that newspaper since it looked like the rack hadn't been filled a few years.

One Picture

I just got back from the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, while I was there I only took a picture of one thing with my camera. The drapes in my hotel room. Three frames of the drapes to be exact. Here is one of the three.