road trip
Headed south to Manhattan for the KSU game on Saturday. Spent the night with Travis at his home in Wichita. Had an excellent dinner at a Latin restaurant and bacon for breakfast — a Travis specialty.
courtesy of matt miller
Gwyneth found something to do while waiting for the game to begin. Thanks Matt.
travis in his element
Comfort is important. Travis is married to charming homemaker Teresa without whom he would suffer greatly.
work room
Not the roomiest of accommodations in the KSU press box. Room enough for Heidi to play on my iTrip.
election
A fairly painless election night in terms of work flow.
An impromptu celebration of Obama’s victory passed down O Street with about 100 people stopping on the Capitol steps.
Judy Beutler, wife of Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler, reacts to Obama’s election.
The guy I was covering, Scott Kleeb, lost his bid for the U.S. Senate. He was more upbeat than this picture may indicate.
does it work?
I tried something different, for me, at the state cross country meet today. I hoped at least one runner would not be blurred while shooting at slow shutter speed. Can you find her? Bigger is better in this instance I suppose. Opinions?
not a good look
Visitors to my humble abode have come to expect regaling tales of my annoying, if not entertaining, neighbors; their antics ranging from inconsiderate to criminal. Among them is Jim, a tiresome old man whose demeanor quickly wears thin whenever he is in the general vicinity, which is always. The incompatibility of his two most prominent traits, being naturally loud voiced and garrulous, are eclipsed only by his early-morning wardrobe selections.
Enjoy.
shucks
We only cover a couple of cross country meets a year, I think mostly to say that we did. Unfortunately, my favorite picture was from the junior varsity race so it’s usable only to me.
I like the grasshopper in the bottom right. They were everywhere.
reasons for envy
Nimbly fingered Jill made me this wonderful putter cover. I specifically asked for a tassel and she intuitively selected perfect colors for me. Thank you Jill. I’ll be the envy of The Three Putt League. Check out Jill’s web site: http://fabulous-fabulous.blogspot.com/
Actually, I already am the envy of my golf league having won this years competition last week. Not that I’m a great golfer. Far from it. It’s based on handicaps, I just managed to win the matches I should have.
it worries me
The cynic in me, who is large, worries about getting pictures like this the very first game of the season because it sets my expectations so high. I suppose it’s better than not having shot them.
No face-mask penalty called.
Yes, he made the catch, for a first down no less.
sunny flowers
I believe I’ve quoted coworker Eric before: “A bad day on the road beats a good day in the office.”
Today wasn’t a full day out, but most of it was. Mugshots of buildings and roads don’t fit my definition of photojournalism, more like mindless documentation, but if a field of sunflowers happens to be in the way, I’ll stop and smell them. They don’t actually have an aroma, in case anyone was wondering.
catching up
I’ve more or less recovered from the Democratic National Convention. The worst residual effect was to my golf game which I haven’t managed to completely overcome. (After playing a round the other day, I decided the distance from the point-and-shoot to the stage in my last post was a little farther, more like a six iron, around 160 or 170-yards.)
Despite some horrible planning by the DNC Committee and lack of relaying said horrible planning to the media, I survived, and given the opportunity would do it again. Unfortunately, because of technical difficulties beyond my control, mainly a computer battery that maintains power for all of 20 minutes and service overload for my cellular connection, I missed most of Obama’s acceptance speech. I had to shoot and scoot for deadline, hearing but not really listening to the first few minutes, then getting back for the last 10 or so. For me the most impressive thing was when I returned near the end, the stadium of 80,000 or so people was completely quite. I’ve been in nosier churchs. Weird in a stadium setting like that.
For the week, my favorite speeches ranked best first: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden. I missed Ted Kennedy as well as Barack.
Here are my favorite pictures.
highs and lows
The lows first. Yes, that is a point and shoot on one of those tripods made of pencils. I’d hit a seven iron from this distance, about 150 yards from the supposed photo stand to the stage. She had a brand new pro-model Canon with a 35-300 but didn’t use it much. She had a cable release on that.
How they decide who gets credentials for this thing is beyond me. It’s crowded enough. Leave the idiots at the door.
The highs, Bill Clinton and John Kerry both gave outstanding speeches. But Melissa Etheridge was stirringly wonderful. She sang a medley of tunes, making them her own with that wonderfully experienced contralto behind her lips.
tired, but here’s some pictures
Conventions are exhausting. I would love to elucidate the idiotic planning of this convention as regarding access to the arena, but I’m exhausted.
Me of course. Way up in the rafters. I tried to get something different of Michelle Obama knowing I couldn’t compete with the wire.
This is what I got. Fought through a lot of people just to get into the hall.
convention time
I’m in Denver this week covering the Democratic National Convention. Fun because it’s important, not fun because it’s hard making pictures. I’ll try not to complain too much because, as Eric always says: “A bad day on the road beats a good day in the office.”
How, when and where protesters are allowed to express their constitutional rights is always an issue at conventions. Today I covered a peace rally that went nearly two miles through Denver from the captiol to the Pepsi center. These guys didn’t have a permit from the city, who issued permits through a lottery system, so they went to the state and got permission to assemble on the capitol grounds.
There was speculation there would be confrontations, arrests, etc. but nothing happened. Other than me getting sunburned because I forgot my hat in the car.
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