Hookah!

Another event used to celebrate Jewish Heritage Week was the hookah on Lafallette Feild. This was a lot of fun to shoot, but definitely a challenge. The event started two hours late, so I no longer had the sun for backlight, so I decided to try to use two flashes. I hardly ever use flash, and this was my first time ever using two. It worked for about 20 mintues, and suddenly the slave stopped firing. I wasn't sure what to do, so I just went on shooting.

Israeli Folk Dancing

Shot a great feature assignment today. There was a special lesson being taught on Isreali folk dancing by an extremely funny and enthusistic instructor -- Ya'akov Eden. He's originally from Israel and was able to add a lot of informative information about each of the dances he taught. It looked like so much fun that I almost joined in, but there were still some different photos and angles that I wanted to get. Perhaps I'll forgo the shooting duties next time and join in.

Speakers...

Speakers, love 'em or hate 'em... wait a sec, what photographer loves to photograph speakers? I assume you can tell where this is heading. I had an assignment yesterday to photograph three authors reading excerpts from their first books. All three of these authors were quite interesting, but taking photos of someone reading does not make the most interesting photograph, therefore, I tried to spice it up as best as I could.

Here's the result. Will it run in the paper? Probably not, but I came away from a mundane assignment with something that I'm happy with (and something that my editors can be happy with as well).

"Where is his eye protection?!"

Over spring break, I was expecting to shoot 4-5 freelance assingments for the local paper, the Palladium-Item. Unfortunately, there wasn't much happening in Richmond that week, so I ended up shoot one assingment instead. But, I did get to start my environmental portrait shoot for my intr0-photojournalism class.

I decided to go photography my dad and uncle seeing as how they own an auto body repair shop that has quite a bit of character. I spent a few hours with them, and here is my favorite shot. (By the way, this is my uncle, Tom).

The end of the basketball season (for me anyway)

Here are some shots from the last home game of the season. Hope you enjoy!