Friday, March 27, 2009

friday night fish fry & barn cats

as i was winding up shooting a fish fry at one of our local churches, the volunteers joked that i should get on a pair of gloves and batter up perch filets myself...get the whole experience.....so, i said, sure, i'll do it....and voila, here's me in all my flour mix glory, taken by one of the church members...nothing says friday night during lent like a fish fry!

these parishioners were like a well-oiled machine, dishwashers on one half of the small parish hall kitchen, batterers, fryers and servers on the other....lots of friendly banter back there, which is what makes shooting a fish fry from behind the scenes way more fun and better for fotos than the people actually eating the stuff...

the kitchen was filled with members of all ages getting into the mix (literally) to keep the filets a-flowin', from little kids to older members who have been doing this for over 20 years, serving as many as more than a thousand people in a single friday night


on my way back i was keeping my eyes peeled for possible features, the light starting to set and making everything rich and warm...i drove past some kids playing hoops, but horrible cluttered backdrops (and we just had a feature like that in the paper recently)...as i drove past these great old, weathered barns, i kept thinking, now why couldn't some kid be playing on the hoop hooked on that barn...or why can't there be a cat or someting perched in the window of THAT barn?! and not a minute after thinking that, i glance over and there it is! luckily, these cats stayed put (well, one shyed off as i got closer), and i made some frames...can't decide which one i like best, but i'm just happy to have found it....
talk about "ask and you shall receive"!!!

1 comment:

Wendy Torello said...

Howdy, I like the top one better, the overall composition and the contrast of the shadow from the eve and the blue sky. The kitties make the strong graphics melt in my heart. Old barns make it sing.

I worked with Keith awhile at the Times Herald. Nice stuff.