New Mexico sky, continued

Last night I went to Melrose, NM (about 25 miles west of Clovis) to shoot my last graduation of the day/week/year. (hopefully)
It had been cloudy all day and was finially clearing. This made for an incredible sunset. It was even better when I was heading back to Clovis. Except for the fact that I was having to shoot in the mirror and try not to wreck the car, it was awesome. Wow, Everyday the sky has been completely beautiful and completely different.

Clovis News-Journal Day 5

This morning my first assignment was at 10am. It was Clovis High graduation. They ended up doing a page on it. I was happy with the photos but the designer wasn't very creative with the layout. I think I started to get across some of my ideas to a couple of the designers. They seem to be reasonable folks who I can work with. I actually sat down with one about how to layout a 2 picture package. Given what I submitted it made for an uninteresting page. Give what I had seen I reedited one photo to change the shape so it would work better on the page. I don't feel like I'm bending to their wills but we're working together to create something better. That makes me feel good. I also had my first spot news. I was driving back from my last graduation of the day (I shot 2) and I see a fire truck laying a hose. So I investigate and notice smoke coming from a building a couple blocks away. I stop a block away and head over to start taking pictures. I talk to the fire guys a little then call into the office to let them know I'm on it.
Not a bad first week, I'm off sunday so I can relax and try to finish up some projects around the apartment.

more New Mexico sky

I got back to the office after my last assignment, looked to the west and bam! I don't think I'll get tired of this sky for a while.

Clovis News-Journal Day 4

Today was kind of a relaxing day. I came in late and was able to take a full hour for lunch. Mostly because I'm hourly and had to cut time so I didn't get overtime. First I went over to the city zoo to shoot peacocks then it was softball features before I was off to another graduation. I have 2 more on Saturday. After that I should be graduationed out. I also think that does it for them.
I can't complain that most of my assignments seem to come between 5 and 8 in the afternoon/evening.

New Mexico sky part 1 of 82,324,234

The first one if from Tuesday, after I go off work. The last three are from heading back to the office after I busy day. Just to let you know it didn't rain here. I can't say the same for western Texas.

Clovis Day 3

Wow.. busy busy busy. I was out shooting al day and finally finshed about 6. So I went to get coffee and edit photos. It got up to 95 today, but it's a dry heat. You know kind of like an oven.

Clovis Day 2

Today started out slow and ended with a bang. I ended up shooting different things. It began with feature hunting the 2 quick assignement. I finished the day with a little league game warm-ups in bangin' light. One of the quick assignments was at a National Guard armory. They let me wander around and take photos. So I had to get one of me and the tank.

Clovis Day 1

Yesterday was my first day at the Clovis New Journal. I went in about 11:30 to get my working space cleaned up and to get familiar with the system. My first assignment was to go feature hunting. I found the dude fishing at the lake across from the Taco Box (the coolest fast food place in Clovis, it's even got wireless internet)
Then I was off to Texico, New Mexico to cover graduation. Texico is about 6 miles east of Clovis, almost on the NM, TX state line.
It looks like I only have one assignment today so I see more feature hunting in my future. Given the way this week is shaping up, I'll have a lot of time to work on projects. I've already talked to the managing editor and we're going to do a page on my trip out this sunday.

Coolest Rest Stop EVER!!

About 30 miles into Texas, we saw a sign for a rest stop. Nothing out of the ordinary there. We'd seen tons of signs for rest stops along the way. The thing that made this one different was that it advertised wireless internet. So Ray and I got all excited and stopped. The rest stop turned out to be the coolest ever. That's counting that fact that the internet was broken.

America from a truck, part 3

America from a truck, part 2

America from a truck, part 2

America from a truck, part 1

America from a truck, part 1

I had a lot of time to take photos out the window on this trip. At first I started trying to clean up the frame and keep the mirrors and the door out of the frame. Then I said, "screw that". These pictures are from a moving truck and that should show.

Captured by Robots at Kings

Captured by Robots at Kings

Here are a couple from the Captured by Robot show I went to with Arielle. It was an awesome show like the previous one I went to. One last concert before I left town.

Bottled Light

Bottled Light

I had my first assignment for them on Friday. I was making portraits of a lanscape architect at her house. It was an awesome house. She was putting bottles on the fence around the pool equipment. Definitely a very cool idea, along with everything else in the yard and house.

Black Eyed PPPP

Black Eyed PPPP

It was my first concert in a while. Pussy Cat Dolls sucks but looked good. The PPPP sounded much better but the crowd was pretty lame. Shooting a big concert is aways more fun than it should be for the time invested.

Cup a Joe's Bathroom

Cup a Joe's Bathroom

I was over there for coffee and stepped into the bathroom. The one light was almost completely out. What did I do? I pulled out my camera and started making dark as hell bathroom photos.