Housefire in the Blue Light

Got a new lens and only need to do 30 jobs like the one above to pay for it.  YOLO!

D500 times 2 finally.

I finally bought that second D500 I have been dreaming of.  My first job utilizing two d500 bodies was at the local very dark bowling alley. The area where the players sit is so much darker than the alley that  I can get good silhouette shots.  One Silhouette shot per job is great, after that I had to push my camera to the max to get usuable shots.  It was great to have two good cameras.  One was equipped with my workhorse second hand 70-200 f/2.8 that other with my new favorite lens the 35mm 1.8.

This week I also used my 10-20mm Sigma 4.5-5.6 to get a shot I have always wanted to try.  This lens is wide enough to pull it off.  10mm is really pushing it for a lens and it shows. The lens is a bit soft and at anything over about f/16 it is blurry.  f/8 seems to be the sweet spot for my copy but f/11 is okay too. I got the lens for real estate, but will use it a little bit for other things as well.

Pickleball

I would not have tried to shoot through the net with my older camera and lens.  The D500 with the 35mm 1.8 can handle it just fine.

Final Football Game for the Hometeam

I learned so much this football season. I look at my photos from two years ago and I cringe. It's good that I cringe, it means I'm still learning. The thing about learning is you don't know what you don't know. So what you think is good at the time becomes cringeworthy a few years down the line *IF* you have kept learning and improving. I hope that in two years time I cringe at these pictures that I am so happy with at the moment. I am already looking for a way to improve my kick photos.

Fall sports

It has been a strange few months

My job was the first to go in the first round of cuts. 

The WPA network has been good to me during football season anyway and I've sold some team photos, but always get stuck with a few prints I can't sell.  I think letting the newspaper run one before I sold all the prints did not help.  I'm stuck with 4 8x12 prints.    Getting stuck with one is okay, but getting stuck with four is not okay.

Summer Soccer Ends, Fall Football Begins

Styx a Fire and first run of wedding ad

Forest Fire Base Camp

Went on a media tour of the  Maple Forest Fire up the Hamma Hamma and the Forest Fire base camp.  My first time on a special tour of a fire.  The tour was interesting and my photos blew up on Facebook.  My Facebook page has a lot of new likes and now my posts get seen more often.  I hope some of that translates to some photo work.

Look at all that exposure!  People die from exposure.  Please give me cash instead.

I was feeling pretty depressed last month, but this month is better.  I keep forgetting that this is a feast or famine job. This month I am feasting but not thanks to any of my photojournalism.    Photojournalism is now a hobby that I need to support with wedding, real estate and event photography.

Arson fire in town that forced a shelter in place order.  This arson case has been solved

Column of smoke from another arson fire

Fire fighter Tent City at the local airport Sanderson Field

One fire basecamp photo on the front page August 23

Two fire bascamp photos a-11

More stuff in the paper

Crossed out the ones that are not mine 

Drone photo, I have my commercial drone license now

Taken from a Kayak

Underwater photo

Not my favorite shot due to the technical quality out on the water
with a soft lens on my old camera.

They reused a photo from last year

With the right angle even a ribbon cutting photo can be interesting

Nikon D500
17.0-50.0 mm f/2.8
ƒ/22.0
 
34.0 mm
1/800
 
500
Flash (on, fired)
 
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 1.       Kim Kinchloe of Elma sets up balloons before the start of the event

3.       From Left  Laura Lee Roznowski and Keilly Mulholland collect money for raffle tickets in their team booth.

4.       John Cluatree, 9 attempts to pop a balloon during  the balloon stomp contest while Samuel Ricker 8, watches.

5.       Members of team “ Earth Angels S.O.A.R.”  dressed as circus people pass in front of prison bars.  Participants were “arrested” and then “bailed” out by other members. 

6.       From left  forest festival royalty dance in the dance contest.  Trinity Fewell, Princess of Hemlock, Jessica Schreiber, Queen of the Forest, Julia Castro, Princess of Cedar.

7.       Sunny Pickard of Shelton and Eljahn Balon of University Place rest on a bench near the relay track.

8.       Luminary bags before the start of the Luminaria Service (zoom blur effect)

9.       A participant carries a light saber past luminary bags in the Luminaria Service (slow shutter speed)

10.   Bailey Kaiser, 10 rests in front of her Grandma’s (Karen Dell) luminary bag

11.   Team members walk in front of luminary bags during the Luminaria Servic

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