Saturday, June 27, 2009

a week of features

since tuesday, i've had a lot of featurey assignments, and i've feature hunted each day, too, just cos'.....not going to post everything, just the highlights that i liked, along with any relevant commentary, for what it's worth.....


this is a feature that i've shot before, but it's such eye candy, i couldn't resist, and it's different every time it seems - depending on the mesh, where the sun is, whether you go for a silhouette or not, how they jump, where they land, etc; so, i don't mind that i shot this again (it's been years, too, does that make it more okay?)....i had a couple hours to kill before a stand-alone feature assignment on a canine obedience class, which honestly, i wasn't totally into, so i felt like i needed to go do something i maybe would feel better about, and i think i found it

the next day, a bit of the same scenario - came back into the office after grabbing a bite, and saw an assignment in from a writer about how they are repainting the old village hall in one of the small towns we cover...there was another in the basket for a hot weather feature for next day's page one from the editor - the afternoon fotog already had a couple assignments going, so i wasn't going to ask her to feature hunt - the editor said either of those assn;s could work for the next day - the outdoor work (also a stand-alone) couple work in terms of the weather fea as well - playing in the pool on a 90+ day or sweatily working in it - both get the job done....so i went up to the village - no one was working - and i don't know where people go in that little village, but i have yet to successfully find a feature there - they must all be huddled around the ac units inside or something - so made my way back to Monroe - not finding a whole lot, and i was taking a back way thru neighborhoods to get to an ice cream stand where there's always someone, turned down a side street, and there's kids riding around their yard on a miniature pony - what the hell? turns out it was a b-day party, and they were happy for me to stay and make some pictures - didn't get anything of the pony ride that i liked that much, which was a little disappointing, but they weren't on it long before they decided the pool was a much more alluring idea...so, anyway, here's the result of my lucky find for the day 




next day, did the desk stuff and the meetings, then i went to shoot a girls hoops camp as a stand-alone before i went to a "tour our new surgery rooms" assn. at the hospital - tear it up! i wouldn't be so cynical if it weren't our hospital, which has historically been a photo nightmare for us - nothing but one stop block and red tape hassle after another whenever we have to try and do something there....as i was walking in - thankful at least for the ac after spending an hour-plus in a hot, steamy, un-ac'd gym - i  saw this guy walking out - i just loved the cane, and how he was stooped over and yet sporting his pistons jersey like a young guy



such was the week - a lot of feature pix, be it the drive-around kind or just events that we found out about that would work as stand-alone art...that was my theme this week i guess, but at least i found some frames i like and met some nice people  - can't really ask for a whole lot more than that

2 comments:

cohnhead said...

how is it so sunny there? nothing but gloomy rain fro the last month

kim said...

oh trust me, we've had our share of that, too! it just seems to be gloomy all day, but at the tale end of it all, we have a nice sundown - i'll take that - better than nothing!