Winslow photos are finally up.  I’ve spent the last night editing the Winslow photos and working on Enertia’s practice photos. I’m getting close to finising it up.  Hopefully I can be done by the end of today, and then I can concentrate on EnLair photos.

To check out Winslow photos click here.

I’ve spent this Saturday taking pictures of EnLair dance company at Broadway Performance Center.  I was there from around 2pm for a tech rehearsal until around 9pm when the show finished.  They had another performance today at 2pm, but I decided not to go since I already have around 1000 pictures, and I hope that there would be at least 100 good ones in there. Major challenge this time around was a complete lack of light.  This was the darkest show I had to shoot.   Dark clothing on dark background and you get NO light bouncing back to the lens.   Even with a f2.8 lens I was getting about 1/30 - 1/60 and that’s at about 2/3 - 1 1/2 stop underexposed with 1600 ISO.  Generally I’m able to push it up to 1/125 when the light is semi-normal as it is with most Enertia dances.  I hope that the pictures will come out ok, since at these speeds it’s almost impossible to catch any movement, unless the girls are able to hover motionless in the air for a brief second

The plan is to work on the pictures throughout this week and hopefully have them done on the weekend.  The problem is that I’m currently out of space and my 1TB fileserver is not ready yet, so I’m hopping to get it up and running ASAP.

I finally got some time to write. I’m sitting in RAM at u-village killing time before the volleyball game.

I’ve been pretty busy with a midterm, this election stuff and proposals we’re writting at work. All in all a VERY busy week. Will post some pictures soon I hope.

Well things are wrapping up here.  I got up pretty early and spent part of the day in the morning on the airfield and rest of the day we were working out of our respective hotel rooms.  My part of work is basically done, so I’ll probably head out of Winslow tomorrow morning around 10.  I hope to be in Phoenix by 13:00, which will give me enough time to eat lunch and catch the flight.

Today I went to lunch to Turqouise Room, which is essentially the best restaurant in Winslow.  It’s inside the La Posada hotel.  The lunch there was GREAT.  I even got some desert, brownie with capuccino gelatto.  Other than that it was business as usual, basically NOTHING to do or see.

I did try and get some pictures late at night, but didn’t find any inspiration with anything.  Everything was too plain, there was no moon to be found and most places I wanted to get into had “No Trespassing” signs.  I did meet a couple from Minesota out here while taking photos and they were asking me about places to see and things to do, but unfortunately there is NOTHING.  As such I didn’t get many photos and nothing worth posting today.  I will try and post rest of the pics when I’m back in Seattle.

Today was a long day. Spent pretty much the whole day at the airfield working. It was cool to see a working helicopter up-close. I did manage to take a quick nap around 3pm. I took a lot more pictures as well. Mainly at the airfield. It’s a pretty cool one, apparently Lindbergh and Hughes were the founders. From what I can see it’s mostly used for refueling and what not since the air traffic was pretty much non-existent. I’ve seen no more than 5 airplanes land or take of from there all day.

One interesting thing is that the state penitentiary is right next door, about 3 miles away, and I got to see the real-life prisoner transport. They brought the guy in from the penitentiary, handed him off to the cop who handcuffed and shackled his legs and then took him up on a plane. I though this was very strange, since they did it in full view of all the people that were there.

One thing I learned today is that the water here is AWFUL, it tastes kind of like the watermelon skin. I immediately had to go and get some bottled water. I think people up in Seattle get spoiled with Mt. Rainer glacier water.

Here is another night shot I took at the airfield. They have a cool looking rotating light:

Star of Winslow