Thanks to Towson U. shooter Patrick Smith’s blog, I recently discovered an excellent example of storytelling photography. Scott Strazzante’s photo story “Another country”, recently published on the Chicago Tribune’s website, is a tour de force well worth attention.
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Willow: “Well, we don’t have cable, so we have to make our own fun.”
Sometimes we don’t get light, so we have to make our own. Joe McNally zooms his. Dave Black pinches his. I call it the Personal Shaft (of sunshine, that is).
click through to see larger | tech: f/6.3 @ 1/160th, Tokina 12-24, D300, flash as described below
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This post is pulled from an OLD post on my old site. Put up here for a couple friends who are headed out west to do some photography. The whole write up after the jump… (more…)
I have stacks and stacks of t-shirts. More than I could ever wear, and it seems like they must be multiplying on their own. My wife wants me to get rid of them. At first, I thought they were too important as mementos and souvenirs: of frisbee teams, of concerts, of whatever. I’ve started to think she might be right, because I don’t wear very many of them very much at all.
I got a new t-shirt last Sunday. Bright yellow. Text on it from an organization I haven’t got much connection to. It says “Special Olympics Volunteer”.
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Assuming I can remember correctly at my advanced age, I’ve played two Masters tournaments. I’m 2-0, which is a pretty good percentage, I guess. Then again, I’ve played two tournaments with pretty darn talented folks. Even if they’re old.
The Short Fat Guys decided this year that we should find a way to add “Old” into the name. “Short Old Fat Guys”, “Short Fat Old Guys”, something. Before a couple 30-something reinforcements arrived for Saturday’s games, we would not have been able to put out a line that didn’t include some 40+. (more…)
In the spirit of Overheard in New York, here’s an “Overheard in Newton”:
Customer: “What country are you from?”
Guy behind the counter: “Greece?”
Customer: “What language do you speak there? Italian?”
Guy: “Greek!”
Satire isn’t dead. It’s just becoming unnecessary.
People happy about the Nor’easter this weekend: NBC. They must love that the most populous part of the country is socked in whilst they’ve got the Olympics going on. Of course, the local NBC station isn’t showing the Olympics - they’re just talking about the weather. As for me, well, my tv is off.
David Sifry of Technorati shares some stats on the blogosphere in general. Makes me feel like a damn sheep for even having a blog.
Making my sheepitude even worse, I’m trying to figure out how to host a second blog just to do a photoblog, but I can’t figure out how to keep it entirely separate from this one and still host it myself, at least not without installing another blogging package.
I don’t know how to use this one all that well yet, so that seems like a risky proposition. Anyone know how to do that in Wordpress?
I shoot a lot of pictures and I often carry around a big camera with a big lens hanging off the front of it. So naturally I get asked two questions fairly frequently: “will you shoot my wedding” and “so what kind of camera should I buy?”
The answers are “no” and “I have no idea”. But lest you think me unhelpful, let me try to explain.
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Over New Year’s, I was chatting with A-list ultimate bloggers Jim and George. One made the observation that when ultimatetalk was just getting started, I was right on the bubble. Now, it seems I’ve fallen off the bubble and live deep in the second tier. And I’m not sure whether that’s a bad thing.
So in the spirit of New Year’s reflections, here are my thoughts about my blogging and what’s going to happen here now.
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Yep, I’m involved in the technology part of the audit at work.
This is where a kid who looks like he wouldn’t have the experience to get a job in our department comes in and asks us probing questions designed to give him some way to report us as failures. And our particular auditor mentioned a few times that he also does some security consulting on the side (subtle, no?).
I suppose he actually wasn’t too bad and he did seem to know what he was talking about, but still, that’s how I feel about audits.
At the close of her first season playing Mixed, one player with a lot of elite women’s experience made an observation to me that came down to four things about Mixed:
The pace is higher.
It’s generally easier to cover the women.
I can’t have as much of an impact.
I had a lot of fun playing Mixed.
There’s a lot of truth in there, and it speaks volumes about women in the Mixed game as it stands today.
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So, as it turns out, if you’re inconsistent and make some bad decisions, you get beat. Yes, Jim, even in Mixed. So here’s how 6TM did, really. I’ve got to get this out of the way before I try to make general observations about Nationals. That’ll be next.
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We have a guy on our team who some have described as the ultimate teammate. He is always ready to play. He is undemanding of PT, happy to do his job for a couple points per game or for more when called on. He considers it a primary responsibility of his to “push the starters in practice” but he is competitive and plays hard on the field. He is capable of playing more than he does and never complains.
We have a guy on our team who is a leader on the field with his play. He will get open for you and he can defend your opponent’s toughest guy. He’s fast, skilled, and experienced. He plays a lot of points.
Which one is the ultimate teammate?
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Been very slow posting, as the 6TM braintrust has been deep in email hell planning practices and arguing about strategies. But in the interest of writing more stuff that’s all me-me-me, I bring you some thoughts on my Nationals experiences now that I’m going back for another helping.
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You know what I recommend just for a couple hours of diverting amusement? A root canal. That’s what.
The most dangerous time in ultimate is transition. Even aside from obvious failures of positioning due to a sudden reversal of fortunes, the “new” defensive team can be momentarily confused or slow to react. So why is it that teams are always yelling to “walk to it!” and should they be yelling it? (more…)
Erik Sebesta made an astute observation about what happened in our favor: we got the wake up call we badly needed and we still won the Section to preserve seed going into Regionals. (more…)