tractor pull

tractor pull at the boone county fairgrounds. wasn't much interested in photographing the event itself...trying to get a sense of what goes on outside of the main 'action.'

click on this one...even bigger, i think the guy fades too much

storm

this shot isn't quite clear. i'm a little frustrated. i didn't have a tripod (storms hit suddenly) so I was trying to hold 5 second exposures still...but i overexposed this one and ended up bringing it down, so i could have made it a shorter exposure.

changing light pt 1

blogger is making me post this in two separate posts. I've given the time for each photo. please help me narrow it down to 5!

6:13 AM


6:36 AM


8:43 AM


10:27 AM


1:56 PM

changing light

6:02 PM


6:25 PM




6:55 PM

microfiche

top pics - a guy looking for dead relatives on microfiche
bottom - studio 4, a fourth grade class that uses higher tech shite than i know how to use

go ahead

rip me a new one.

I swear i shoot more than straight on, these are just the ones that end up getting published.

Deputy juvenile officers Rebecca Taylor, Angie Jaco and Darci Haug work in close quarters at the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Mo. on March 16, 2006. Due to the lack of space, the officers must crowd together without any seperation between their desks or the narrow walkways.



I knocked my lens into manual and backfocused this one but they decided to use it anyway.
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Jean Jacobs, a member of the Columbia Mothersingers, acts like a genie and performs tricks for students at Benton Elementary School on Thursday, March 16, 2006. The Mothersingers sing and act out skits for elementary schools and other places in the area each spring.


Denver Colorado airport for my balancing light assignment. A tripod and rear sync would have made this picture much better, but Jason was amazed I successfully balanced tungsten, flourescent, sunlight, and neon, without using photoshop (I didn't realize we were allowed).


flourescent balancing -
Jack Hathman flipped through a catalog in Draco Sinister, his store that sells period weapons and knives, in Columbia, Mo. on March 9, 2006. Hathman has been fascinated with knives ever since he was 13 and cut himself with a pen knife.
"I bled like crazy," Hathman said. "I was cupping both hands and blood was filling both hands and dripping."
The experience stuck with Hathman. "I couldn't believe that something so simple could cause such a remarkable disaster," he said. Hathman has been in business for six years and has owned his current store since December, 2005.

advanced lighting

i won't waste your time posting my single flash. Here's my bounce flash assignment.
i had a caption but it's on my other computer...something like twins and mom on a family outing at the mid missouri grazing conference

tornado drill

I blew the first shot. I had about a minute to shoot it, three kids I couldn't shoot, and all I could think was 'shit shit shit' how do I eliminate all those butts. When I finally figured out I should shoot something like the shot they're using, it was right before they got up. I needed this a little wider. next annual tornado drill, I'm on top of it.

Parkade Elementary School students face the wall and clasp their hands over their head in response to the annual statewide severe weather tornado drill on March 14, 2006 in Columbia, Mo. In the event of a real tornado, this move helps protect students from falling objects and shattered glass.


Cindy Hardy asks her first grade Parkade Elementary School about the tornado drill their school held as part of Missouri's annual statewide severe weather tornado drill on March 14, 2006 in Columbia, Mo.

museum assignments

Pics from the steamboat museum in kansas city for a newspaper piece on places to go. the museum contains artifacts from the steamboat arabia, which sank in the 1800's. The first pic is a woman looking at mule bones - the only victim of the sinking. The second is of a preservation station, where artifacts are preserved in front of museum guests, who are free to ask questions and interact with the staff.






pics from the glore museum in st. joe's missouri- which is a museum of psychiatric historical artifacts, like this retaining cage for mentally ill patients back in the day

Update finally! (030906)

Well, I still have five or six assignments I haven't posted, as well as pictures from ongoing projects, but at least this is something! Sorry everything is sort of jumbled together. There's three posts of recent shite.

Comment!

Pills confiscated from Chris Crivello's house, a boy who died of an overdose. They are being held as evidence at the Ashland Police Department.


Portrait of Dr. Margaret Peden a translator of prestigous Latin American authors.

turkey vultures that roost on hickson creek


daycare kids on a parade around MU campus for fat tuesday


a portrait of Alejandro Junco de la Vega and (actual caption for once):

Thomas Marrero, left, a member of the MU Hispanic and Latin American Faculty and Staff Association, congratulates Alejandro Junco de la Vega for receiving the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism at MU.




portrait of a guy who studies video violence (brain waves of an experiment and videos in the background).

true/false film festival volunteers building the 'confessional' where people can go inside and talk for one minute to a video camera about what they have faked.


enterprise - A Nigerian artist who won an award from the UN across 63 countries, in Columbia, as a featured artist at the artisan in conjunction with the T/F film festival



this doesn't read as well small, but it's a nice moment. this family has to pay taxes on the retaining wall that was part of a street construction project that has destroyed their front lawn and that they didn't want in the first place