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Football Firsts

“I’m from Boston, I do hockey,” I cried in exasperation last week to a poor high school quarterback who laughed at me as I told him to catch the ball. Because I though that was his job. Despite my lack of knowledge of the sport, football season came thundering in. On the way to my first game I called up a good friend Kristyn (and even better photographer) as I was stuck in traffic “teach me football in 5 minutes” I yelled before she could say hello. There was more laughing and road rage than anything else. Despite my apprehensiveness, my coworkers convinced me I hadn’t done as horribly as I thought. I even work up to a nice 6:30 am Saturday morning text from my boss complimenting me on my job. And when it came time to do it all again Saturday night I did it with a working 80-200 and a new found confidence.

I still may not understand the concepts of downs, and get confused as to which team has the ball at points, but this is a definite start and a good one at that to a long lasting relationship with me and football. (At least until I make my way back north to hockey) See below the jump for more photos! (more…)

Aug 29, 2010 | Categories:Features, School | Leave A Comment »

The Allen County Fair at 10mm

Today was a slow news day. Since I started at the Lima News a week ago, the big story has been The Allen County Fair. Being the girl from “Bawston” who has a fascination with fairs being as before this summer I had never been to one, I was dubbed the primary shooter for the week and a half long event. Whether I wanted to be or not. Today, with some free time on my hand, me and a coworker were bouncing off ideas about how to take a different angle on this fair that I have been living out. “Bring this,” he said and angels sung as he pulled a magic 10mm2.8 lens from a drawer. I giggled a bit, he didn’t know my guilty pleasure is going wider than ever needed, and ran out the door. So here it is, The Allen County Fair as seen with a 10mm on a crop body. See below for more photos! (more…)

Aug 26, 2010 | Categories:Features, News | Leave A Comment »

The Lima News

As somewhat of a next step in my great quest of photojournalism I have moved to Lima, Ohio to be the next in a great long line of photo interns. For upcoming work check out the blog and also limadaybyday which I shall be updating after every shift.ish. So keep your eyes open to see what comes along!

Aug 16, 2010 | Categories:Entertainment, Features, Multimedia, News, Portraits, Sports | Leave A Comment »

A Fort Knox Summer

As I sit back in my “Boston bed” procrastinating packing once again, here is a culmination of sorts following my summer with the Public Affairs Office at Fort Knox, Kentucky. For my updated blog that I kept while down there, click here. Keep your eyes open for work from Lima, Ohio the next stop in my adventures as a photojournalist. (more…)

Aug 12, 2010 | Categories:Features, News | Leave A Comment »

Epic Days

Sometimes, there are epic photo days where everything goes right. After everything went wrong yesterday (shooting platoon photos in downpours that break cameras after sleepless nights and dreaded phone calls) thankfully today was a good day. I picked my second (and last) company of the summer up at the airport, and came across some other cadets being “bathed” after they spent their day crawling around in the mud. Enjoy! (more…)

Jul 09, 2010 | Categories:Features, News | Leave A Comment »

Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox Kentucky. I’m spending the summer here, motel living for 2-and-a-half months as I work as a photo intern for the poa offices for the army. Covering LTC, a sort of basic training for late-comers to the college ROTC program, along with our own army of interns we will maintain a weekly paper and a daily website.