Photo of the Day

I saw this photo when he posted it on APAD a couple days ago. It's running n the Abq Trib today.


http://www.abqtrib.com/photos/2007/may/31/5793

Thanks Steven, you made my day.

Marriage Firsts

My wife is bad ass.

Inspired by Taylor, she decides it's time to take her first cartwheel as a married woman. Too bad she didn't have her wedding dress on. Cause that would really be bad ass. I guess it was just bad planning on my part.




After that she's like, "I put my hand on this cactus when I did a cartwheel so now I have to eat it."



Then her spidey senses go off and it's time to fly, there's crime to fight.



She ended not getting there in time, since this morning I get a call
saying the police found a dead body and can I go shoot the scene.

Maybe next time she'll get there in time.

that last part about the dead body is true, everything else may or may not be.

Clovis News-Journal: Weekend Feature Hunting

Last Saturday I was sent out to a basketball tournament fundraiser for a feature. When I arrived, I knew what my shot was before I even walked in the building. Sometime the feature gods smile on you. This was one of those days

Clovis News-Journal: Graduation

I lucked out this year, I only had three graduations in 3 days.

Clovis News-Journal: State Track

Now of the actually track photos from the trip.

ABQ trip

A little over a week ago I went to Albuquerque for the state track finals. Clovis and Portales had a bunch of kids competing. This is not a post about track. This is a about heading to albuquerque and getting bagels at dawn.
I left Friday morning before first light for my 3 1/2 hour trip. One thing I love about about leaving that early is the amazing morning light on the high plains.



Saturday morning I realized that the hotel I was staying in didn't have a free breakfast. *sigh* Usually that's one of the ways I try to save money on these trips. So I was forced to venture out and forage for food.

I needed up finding a decent bagel place, where I had breakfast Saturday and Sunday. (any bagel place is decent since Clovis doesn't have a bagel place) On the way to the breakfast (both days), I pasted the following scene.

I also dream...

I can dance

I dream...

I can fly.


I am graceful.

Design School Fashion Show, part 3

Now for the fashion show. I probably had more fun before and afterwards shooting than I did during.

Design School Fashion Show, part 2

After hanging out in the tent, I headed back inside where I met up with a couple models practicing their routine on the catwalk. I ended up hanging out with them and their designer most of the evening.

Design School Fashion Show, part 1

I left Arielle at Laura's place then headed over to pick up Ray for the fashion show. We get there are 5. Initially I'm floating around mostly just hanging out in the tent as Sarah is getting her models ready.

Hanging out in Raleigh

Here are a few more photos from my Raleigh trip. All this was before the Design School Fashion Show.

Carolina Rollergirls

After staying up all night and flying into town, I decided it would be best if I go to the rerby match. I could have gone back and slept, but why slept when there's derby?

I headed over to Dorton Arena with Ray, where we met up with Tim for Roller Derby. I'm really glad I decided to pack a New Mexico sunset in my carry on.

Heading Back East Side

Arielle and I headed back to Raleigh for the wedding. We left 3:45am, NM time, to make our 7am, Texas time, flight out of Lubbock. I always like flying around sunset. Sunrise is just as cool for the views.

We got into Raleigh, had Cook Out and I went to the Design School with Ray.

Clovis News-Journal: Now I'm caught up from before the wedding

The first one is from a rap concert to benefit tornado victims. The second is a native american story teller visiting an elementary school.

There's no connection between them. These two photos get me caught up on posting from before heading back to Raleigh for the wedding.

Clovis News-Journal: Features

Feature hunting is a daily event at the paper. Sometimes I can plan them, most of the time I can't.

Clovis News-Journal: Random Finidings

The first one is some left over tornado damage. The twisted piece of metal used to look like the non twisted piece of metal to its left.



Clovis has over 100 trains a day come through town. Whenever I need to get a train shot, I end up waiting over an hour for one. Funny how that's happened every time.I did a little exploring around the train tracks while I was waiting.

Dress fitting in Albuquerque

Now that the wedding is over, I'm allowed to post this photo. For the most part we kept the red dress thing a secret. Arielle didn't want me to post this one until after the wedding so we didn't give it away.