Thursday I shot an army family looking to purchase a new home. The story was about how the economy has been affecting so many people but the people in business i.e. the government and army is chugging along. The soldier age 24 and his wife 23 have one kid and one on the way and they are looking at finding a permanent home. So while others are struggling soldiers are pursuing a life. While I do like this because these people deserve it, I am a little angry or even in angst if I can apply that term to this situation. I chose my life and I am fine with that but this may hit closer to home with others.
Friday, I got to ride on the Sandman tug boat for a little historical tour. That was a lot of fun and very relaxing. The shooting went fine I felt there was something I missed in the shots but I don't know its a small boat so I got what I could. It was nice talking to the people and the reporter on site there, the reporter was definitely a good guy, good writer to. Those photos made the Sunday front page, which was very exciting.
Saturday was an interesting day, kind of stressful, especially the first event Tony and I covered that day. I was shooting stills and Tony was shooting video of Wienerfest. I was stressed because the lighting sucked I don't think a flash would've helped but I pry should have used one. Never the less the shots I feel came out well. The place where it was held was stuffy, smelly and overall noisy; didn't bug me but I've been feeling ill so it didn't help. The worst part was my camera that I own failing me and not working so I have to send it in to get fixed now. Good thing I have a 2 year warranty on it.
After wienerfest I loaded up the photos I took, edited them and sent to the layout editors. Then I relaxed a little bit and afterwards headed to Bon Odori, the most rushed event of the day. I made the mistake of taking too many shots of the Taiko Drummers and not the dancers but I only had 20 minutes to shoot the dancers and that really didn't give much but enough. After that I loaded, edited and sent the ones I liked best, only a few I pry should have sent more. After all that I headed off to Tacoma for concert. On the way there I get a phone call and apparently they can't find my photos. So I was freaking as I was already in Tacoma but I sat on the phone for a second and the layout editor found them after he pushed the REFRESH BUTTON!!! I mean come on seriously, you would think they would do that on a regular basis. I was furious because I had called Tony to let him know because my phone was dying and I called him too late and felt really bad to bug him like that. Don't know what was a I was thinking. Ugh it was infuriating. They didn't even use any of the photos pry because I should have sent more, its what ever I guess they ended up using 2 of the wiener dog shots.
Heres a shot I slapped together from the senior games same as the other post but better looking.
