Much better than yesterday

Is it strange to blog about pictures and not show you any?

Today I reshot the basketball tournament and shot another event. Both of which were good subjects for multimedia, and I recorded audio. I think basketball was a better opporutnity than the other, which was music lessons, but I’ll also say that I used a mini disc recorder for the lessons. If you haven’t used one of these things don’t. They’re horrible pieces of machinery.  Tell your friends.

I’ll be turning to the Kernel early tomorrow morning after pulling what I consider to be a relatively late Saturday night there. Hopefully I’ll be able to turn my article that I’m writing and a few good photographs to you. And in between all of this I need to learn some facts about Socrates and what he thinks about life.

 In between all of that, I need to figure out mine for next year. Any thoughts?

Potentially has potential

These photos aren’t really good, but tomorrow is when I’ll be putting all my effort into shooting this. I covered Hill on wheels, from Louisville, at this tourney a few years ago. Now I’m going to do a mixed media piece on it for K[mm]. You can kind of see that I started looking for different angles, but this is all with my wide 16-35. Tomorrow I’ll be equipped with P-wizards, two cameras, three or four lenses and of course, audio equipment.

This player needs a ball.

I need to be higher and have this dude’s face.

Very typical wheelchair basketball photo.

Boring photo.

Kind of interesting. I can’t wait to reshoot this.

Dude, where’s my blog?

I know I know. I’m embarrassed about it.

 I haven’t exactly been putting much time into this blog, but it has been a league of absence that should go excused. Let me explain.

This semester I took on the job of multimedia editor for the Kernel. As a part of that I had to build a new Web site. I’ve been working very hard on this since the beginning of the semester, and am proud to say it’s almost there. The paper is launching the site on Monday, and I have to have it basically finished by Friday.

 If you will, check out Kernel Mixed Media. Let me know what you think.

Cats defeat No. 3 Vols

A day that started out in total failure for photography ended OK. UK hosted No. 3 Tennessee and pulled out an upset. I nailed down a few nice photos. I have a lot more to come, including an entire series of remote photos. This is just all I can get up with a raspy cough rattling out of my throat and increasing pressure in my eyes.

Patrick Patterson with his parents. 

Remote.

Bruce Pearl yelling.

A very happy UK team. Especially little Perry.

These photos belong to the Kentuckian and Brad Luttrell. In no way do you have permission to copy them from this site. If you are interested in purchasing a print, please contact me. Copying these photos to any Web site for any purpose is STEALING and is against the law.

On the side:
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Ed informed me tonight that Heath Ledger was found dead. He killed himself with sleeping pills. This really bummed me out. I thought you should know. He was a great actor.
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Cameras and caffeine

Photo by Julie Vachon

OK, I’m going to whip out some basic logic on you.

If I take a lot of pictures wherever I go, and the only place I have been is mostly coffee shops, then almost all of my pictures are from inside of coffee shops.

Follow that? Pretty simple.

Things I have noticed about coffee shops and pictures:

• If you are trying to take pictures, you’re going to see a lot of the repetition of form. Pretty much everyone is looking like Mary Margaret in the frame above.
• Coffee shop lighting isn’t always the easiest to shoot in, especially at night. This is most evident in the photo below. I am aware I have overtoned this picture, but around the third time of trying I said forget it. I don’t care if it looks bad.
• A woman can sit and yack on the phone and throw out about a million “like, ums and whatevers” but as soon as you start to take pictures everyone gives you the eye.
• After drinking way too much coffee and loading up on caffeine you will have a hard time only directing your attention to note cards and psychology books. At this point you have an excellent caffeine high and great mentality to make fun snappers of your friends.
• No matter what coffee shop you are in, there will be friends there to distract you (and pick up your camera to take pictures of you).

I need a 75 on my psychology test to make a B in the class. If I can make a B in psychology, A in journalism, B in art, B in linguistics and C in philosophy I will pull the 3.0 GPA that my parents appreciate so much. I’m a little disappointed I wont be getting an A in linguistics or B in philosophy, but I have devoted way more time into passion than obligation. Even while I’m plowing through my notes, I’m itching to edit pictures, work on Kernel mixed media and Kentucky’s first competitive photography journal. I can’t wait to finish on Thursday so I can have three weeks of me. Accomplishing my goals. The ones that I don’t need a test to tell me how well I did.

Only four tests and four more days.