Canyon County Fair

Today’s Monday, and I am probably one of the few people who are thankful for it. The past few days have been long and hot, and I am pretty happy to have them behind me.

The Canyon County Fair rolled through town this weekend on the heals of the busiest weekend in Nampa. Like most fairs, the Canyon County Fair had a variety of people to see, things to eat, and crappy rides to ride. Unfortunately for me I wasn’t there to enjoy the sights and sounds, I was there to work, for four days straight. As the days passed by, my motivation began to slip in similar fashion. I returned each day to find that the events had remained the same along with the faces of the fair-goers.

I managed to survive and escape with a few photos worth posting, so take a look!




As for me I will be heading up to Moscow this weekend to see my newborn nephew who was welcomed into the world last Sunday night. Check back in a few days for more…

Snake River Dayz

Well ten days have passed since my last post and again, lots of action. The week following my previous post was the start of roughly two weeks of rodeo, and rodeo related community events, known to locals as the Snake River Dayz.

There were plenty of events which kept me busier than usual and instead of going into great detail about all I will just share a couple of shots from the rodeo that I liked.





I am particularly proud of the image of the gentleman on the horse in the American Flag shirt – not because it’s a great photo, but rather because it is the governor of this great state which I now call home. I can’t think of any other place that I have lived where the governor would so boldly express his love for all things red, white and blue. God Bless America!

If you’d like to see the multimedia presentations I created at a few of the events from this past week you can view them at this address…

http://www.idahopress.com/multimedia/

Just click on the drop down menu that says “Multimedia Library”.

Thanks for stopping by!

Another Day Under the Hot Summer Sun

Well as I do every Thursday, I shouldered the camera bag and returned to work after an especially hot and somewhat boring couple of days off.

In similar fashion as Thursday’s past I was confronted by only a few assignments so I decided to head out in search of something wild ‘n crazy to shoot before my 7:15 AAA baseball game in Boise. After cruising the usual spots – the parks, the sand volleyball courts, the pools and the bike trails – I didn’t find anything that captured my interest.

After striking out in Nampa I decided to take the “scenic route” to the game, passing through Middleton and Star, Idaho. By the time I navigated through the countless orange barrels lining the seemingly endless miles of road construction it was about 10 in front of 7 and I had to admit defeat and abandon the feature hunt. Or so I thought…

As I drove into the small town of Middleton I saw an older gentleman sitting in a rascal scooter in front of the senior center who was waiving to every car that passed. I drove by and waved and then very quickly took a second look to notice that he had what looked to be an authentic Idaho license plate with the word JESUS spelled out in big black text. Immediately I pulled a U-Turn and passed by him again to get a third look. He waived again, not taking notice in the fact that I had just waived passing in the opposite direction. I hopped out of the car and talked with him for a few minutes and quickly realized that he was a devout Christian, who’d-a-thought? As we talked he continued to wave, not missing a single car that passed. Clearly he was comfortable enough with me being there so I asked his permission to take his picture and proceeded to fire off a hand-full of frames. I was so excited to have stumbled upon this guy that I actually forgot to focus on a few of the frames. I shook his hand, thanked him for his time and continued on my way to Boise.


I rolled up to Memorial Stadium, home of the Boise Hawks, shortly after the first pitch had been tossed – Gotta love media parking. It was another wonderful evening, perfect for a game. I’d have to say that of all the sports I shoot with any regularity, baseball is probably my favorite. Especially college and minor league baseball.

I worked to get a couple of solid action shots and after the infield was enveloped in shadows I spent another half an inning trying to make a few photos that played off the long shadows. Nothing all that spectacular but I thought it would be worth posting.


Now it’s Friday, Friday the 13th to be exact, and the days of slow to no news are a thing of the past as the Snake River Stampede rolls into town. I’m told that it’s THE rodeo of all rodeos, at least in the state of Idaho. There are all sorts of festivities that run throughout the weekend leading up to the first of five days of rodeo on Tuesday, July 17th.

So I guess take a look back after a few days and see if I’ve survived the Stampede. As always thanks for stopping by!

Update! Update!

After a month long absence, I’ve decided to get back to the blog and make an attempt at posting something new and interesting, partly because I know some may be sick of seeing the photos I published over a month ago, and partly because I finally have taken something that I think is worth putting up online.

Before I talk about the new work I want to just briefly bore you with a short preamble regarding the past months endeavors.

I am sometimes amazed at how quickly time can fly, here it is the middle of July and I can’t help but wonder what happened in to the month of June. As you may or may not recall, May was a bit on the busy side for me, and for reasons still unknown, June seemed to be the polar opposite. Days without assignments became more and more common and quickly I found myself longing for the days of back-to-back assignments, which I came to expect during the month of May.

Outside work I continued to attempt to fill my free time with something fun, most notably a failed attempt at adopting a dog - which I even came up with a name for, before realizing that my lease doesn’t even permit me to have a cat.

I’ve extended my circle of friends by a few after getting to know the employees of the local coffee shop, where I seem to spend almost all of my money as well as most of my free time.

Other than that things have been pretty stable. I eat, sleep every once and a while, read when I can, and go to work most times in between.

As for work, I’ve spent the past week or so really working at developing photo slideshows accompanied by audio. I’ve made two attempts, one which was a disaster at best, and the second, a mild success. The amount that I have learned in only a couple of attempts has been incredible, however, I am also coming to the realization that gathering, edited and presenting audio along with stills is tremendously complex… Complex but exciting.

The two images that I have posted below aren’t really anything to write home about but I thought they were interesting enough to share. The second was actually taken in an indoor rodeo arena and this gentleman on the horse happened to walk in front of an open garage door. I saw the opportunity for a cool silhouette and when he walked by again I fired off a few frames. I kind of wish the background wasn’t so distracting but oh well.


So that’s that. Thanks for stopping by to take a look. Hopefully I’ll be able to start turning out some more photos so I can post more often. Until then, take’r easy!