well, the one brother didn't want to be in a portrait, and he wasn't really doing any work - i did manage to make this frame as he just stood inside their workshop barn, staring out the window at the rain coming down, which i actually like best and think is the most story-telling
then the other brother came - he was just doing paperwork that day, and he didn't really want any portraits on the farm, but he offered to take me out to their tomato field, where he'd gotten a few rows in (well, a few being relative to a couple hundred acres)
the field turned out to be about 20 minutes away, and this isn't the greatest foto, needless to say, but we had a really interesting conversation while driving the round trip - just about farming and all the business involved in it, particularly in terms of managing laborers, migrant workers, and all the new state and federal laws he has to contend with in those regards - it was pretty fascinating - i'm sure there are a few good stories there - which i intend to tell the editor about when they get off deadline this morning
shortly after we got back to the farm, i got a call about a fire at an apartment building in a town called Maybee, so i headed up there....i could smell the smoke from a couple miles away, even with the car windows up, and the wind was blowing it through town, so it wasn't hard to figure out where to go
i could barely even make out the building the smoke was so thick - you couldn't really even make out half the block - but once i got on the other side of the wind i saw the flames shooting out the attic windows and roof - they got one of the ladder trucks on that within a minute of me getting there, so the "big shooting flames" didn't last long, but the smoke just continued to billow through town
tons of people out watching, too - they actually seemed a little excited that something this big was happening in their little village - "did anyone call the tv news? where's channel 7?" i heard some of the kids saying amid bursts of oohs and aahs as flames would shoot up in another window or parts of the building went flying from the force of the water cannons....
multiple departments were there, but really all they could do was stand there and watch as cannons doused the building from all angles...
turns out this place was one of the, if not the, most historic buildings in the town - was a hotel and ballroom back in the day, and henry ford would stop there for lunch on his way from detroit to factories in toledo...
after about an hour and a half, i didn't think i was going to make any pictures different than what i had, and i was soaked to the bone - it was still raining all this time, mind you - and freezing, and i wanted to get that in and maybe change if i could before going to shoot a play rehearsal in a couple hours....
but, by the time i got those 2 assignments in and posted the fire up to the web/foto gallery, it was time for the play, so i just went over to shoot that - they were in their downtown rehearsal place - not the theater - so it's pretty much a bare empty room with a few folding chairs, and some people in costumes and others not - with the big overhead flourescents - so, yeah, not a terribly visual presentation of Romeo and Juliet, to say the least
but, as always, you just do what you can and hope the editors don't give you scowling looks when they get what they get...
and then you go home
then the other brother came - he was just doing paperwork that day, and he didn't really want any portraits on the farm, but he offered to take me out to their tomato field, where he'd gotten a few rows in (well, a few being relative to a couple hundred acres)
the field turned out to be about 20 minutes away, and this isn't the greatest foto, needless to say, but we had a really interesting conversation while driving the round trip - just about farming and all the business involved in it, particularly in terms of managing laborers, migrant workers, and all the new state and federal laws he has to contend with in those regards - it was pretty fascinating - i'm sure there are a few good stories there - which i intend to tell the editor about when they get off deadline this morningshortly after we got back to the farm, i got a call about a fire at an apartment building in a town called Maybee, so i headed up there....i could smell the smoke from a couple miles away, even with the car windows up, and the wind was blowing it through town, so it wasn't hard to figure out where to go
i could barely even make out the building the smoke was so thick - you couldn't really even make out half the block - but once i got on the other side of the wind i saw the flames shooting out the attic windows and roof - they got one of the ladder trucks on that within a minute of me getting there, so the "big shooting flames" didn't last long, but the smoke just continued to billow through town
tons of people out watching, too - they actually seemed a little excited that something this big was happening in their little village - "did anyone call the tv news? where's channel 7?" i heard some of the kids saying amid bursts of oohs and aahs as flames would shoot up in another window or parts of the building went flying from the force of the water cannons....
multiple departments were there, but really all they could do was stand there and watch as cannons doused the building from all angles...
turns out this place was one of the, if not the, most historic buildings in the town - was a hotel and ballroom back in the day, and henry ford would stop there for lunch on his way from detroit to factories in toledo...
after about an hour and a half, i didn't think i was going to make any pictures different than what i had, and i was soaked to the bone - it was still raining all this time, mind you - and freezing, and i wanted to get that in and maybe change if i could before going to shoot a play rehearsal in a couple hours....but, by the time i got those 2 assignments in and posted the fire up to the web/foto gallery, it was time for the play, so i just went over to shoot that - they were in their downtown rehearsal place - not the theater - so it's pretty much a bare empty room with a few folding chairs, and some people in costumes and others not - with the big overhead flourescents - so, yeah, not a terribly visual presentation of Romeo and Juliet, to say the least
but, as always, you just do what you can and hope the editors don't give you scowling looks when they get what they get...
and then you go home
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