got in to work yesterday afternoon and glanced at the board as i was setting my stuff down - oh no! ANOTHER all-star game? this time was the county-wide baseball all-stars...yeah, i forgot about that one...there was also a "family fun night" (we'll have face painting, the balloon man and a moonwalk!! the request said...ooh, no why does that sound so darned familiar??!!?) set to start at the same time and last for only a couple hours....i was gonna hit that quick then go to the game, until i found out it was going to be page 1, and i figured maybe it would be busier from 6 to 7, so i opted to shoot the game for an hour then go there...pretty much a crap shoot either way, because i could have guessed wrong and end up missing out on all fronts - maybe not getting good action, maybe missing the biggest crowds at the family night...but i just went with it - didn't get any good action at the baseball game - kids weren't getting on base so much, or when they did, there was no good action or plays involved, and the game was going quick - they were already in the bottom of the 4th after an hour - which is unusual for baseball here it seems - got up to the family night....i pull up thinking, hmm, where are all the people???? i see the moonwalk, i see the clown, i see the Wendy's mascot....and i see one kid with her grandparents getting a balloon animal made....greeaaaatt!!!! through the hour remaining a trickle of kids came and went - turns out i didn't miss the big crowd - this WAS the big crowd, the busiest they got; so i didn't guess wrong on where to go first, it just was pretty much gonna stink no matter how ya sliced it.....so i'm looking and watching, and i make a couple pix of some extremely non-expressive kids getting balloons made, and i try to shoot the face painting thing - ya know, the old 'take the over the shoulder shot as the kid checks out their colorful, sparkly new image in the clown's mirror' picture, but the mirror she had must have been about 50 years old and packed away in sawdust, so i can't see a thing...and i'm thinking "i won't shoot the moonwalk, i won't shoot the moonwalk, i won't shoot the moonwalk"....aww hell, i'm gonna have to shoot the moonwalk - that's the only place where more than 2 people are! this isn't what i turned in for the next day, but i'm gonna submit it for next week's photo page or a still life....bit of a rough night all in all....
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