i2eye: all in (roughly) a week's work

picks of the picks from what i've shot in the last 7-10 days -- been in a lot of feature hunting and kid scenarios, but that's okay...here's my eye-ful for the week as i try to get back to posting more regularly (well, at least more than just once a month)!!

i was chatting with this little girl and her mom after making their portrait yesterday - she ran to get her doll and asked me to take a picture of them together....the weird thing is that just that very morning i was shooting a toddler play group at the library, and one of the girls i focused on was clutching this very same doll!!!

outtake from a story about a school bus driver who put her extra 10 minutes before kids can unload and head into school to use by holding a spelling bee every morning...the kids are divided into teams and the team that gets the most points each month gets a special treat...they've spelled over 2000 words since it started in october....while i was on the busride to shool, i tried to get some pictures for our weekly photo page and if lucky maybe even a still life...

and now for something completely different...

got this assignment to make a portrait for our relatively new seasonal glossy publication Monroe Magazine - this woman is starting a club for teens to get them exposed to Lake Erie and its beauty and richness...it was dark, gloomy and/or rainy for most of the last half of the week, but it had to be shot within a couple days, so weather be damned, try to make a good portrait - i thought i was going to get lucky and have a nice sundown - i was shooting a softball game, and as the time approached for me to hightail it over to the lake and meet this woman, the clouds started rolling in, looking pretty threatening - i'd brought an antique umbrella i have just in case, and i like the element it added to the portrait, but i also liked the shot without it (my "test shot" actually, but i think it was the best one), which is what they're running in the mag

and the beat goes on....

just an outtake of a grab i made while at a family's house before school earlier this week - this family had just bought a house and moved to that street so their kids could be within walking-distance of their elementary school - as of late last week, that was one of 4 schools slated to be shut down due to budget cuts...below, the mother snuggles with her toddler son (whom they'd planned also to go there when he was ready) as they watch the ducks on the river banks from their living room window...just liked this tender moment between them...

the art of feature hunting - get in car, point said vehicle in some direction, drive around in big squares until you find somebody doing something....found this one one day, and the one below it the next

the older of these 2 cousins had donned his dad's baseball cap as they rode up and down the sidewalk in front of their house - he could barely see - i think you could have fit about 2 of his heads in there!

So, to end on one of my favorite notes, the bus ride was kind - not only did i shoot the assignment and get some contenders for the photo page, i found a still life - just love all these faces! everyone is looking off in their own direction, and miraculously none of them are looking at me!