Stage Race

So I haven't posted in a while. Here are some bicycling photos.

Commissioner's Box Baby...

So last weekend I went up to St. Louis to see the my beloved Cubbies play the dreaded Cardinals. It was a perfect weekend for baseball. And I had seats in the Commissioner's Box, which is adjacent to the Cardinal's dugout and basically on the field. I even talked to some of the players while they were taking infield before the game. I brought my camera, and over the two days, shot 440 pictures. All of which were amazing. As always. Actually, thats false. But I did have a lot of really good ones. Here's a few of the best of the best from the weekend.

Is there a way to get my text to be first and then have the pictures appear? Because it's really annoying to have text at the bottom.

ASPA

So last week I went to this journalism conference called ASPA, Arkansas Scholastic Press Association if you must know. Anyways, me being the great sports photojournalist that I am, I had one of my photos up for an award. The Yearbook Sports Photograph. You can either get Honorable Mention, Excellent, or Superior, with Superior being the highest rating. I found out I got excellent and was pretty mad. Actually, really mad. But when they gave me my photo and their ratings and comments, the judges had actually circled Superior. So I may have gotten the highest award for this, and that would make me really happy. So here it is.

AMBIII

Goat Farm

I went out to this place west of Fayetteville called Goat Farm. It was a few weeks ago, and absolutely freezing and hard winds. But I wanted to see if I could shoot rock climbing/bouldering well on my first try, and came up with this as my best. Elliot Grissom here, it trying to climb up to the top of this rock, about 15-18 feet up from the ground. It didn't happen though. As you can see, it's pretty much a flat piece of rock with no holds sticking out.

AMBIII

I did write something, but its under all of this.

So yesterday I went out to Pinnacle Country Club hoping to get some pictures for my senior photo portfolio. I thought they would just let me on, but I was wrong. I got up to the security gate, and told him what I was doing, flashed my press pass and everything. So he called the clubhouse and talked to like a hundred people. They finally let me up to the clubhouse to talk to the pro. So I'm thinking this is pretty ridiculous, being a golf fanatic and all I don't see the problem with me doing this. I get up there and tell him I am a member of every golf association I'm eligible for, I have worked on golf courses, played in the LPGA Pro-Am last year, and my uncle is a PGA certified pro. And on top of this, I am the number one sports photojournalist in the school and up for awards for my sports photography in the state. Finally this guy understands how awesome I am, and gives me a cart and the whole shebang. And good thing, because I took some of the best photos of my life there. I think these would compete with any Shupe photo from the course. Thats' right Shupe, I just did that.

Viaje a Mexico

In precisely 29 hours, I will depart to Mexico for a mission trip.  I plan on taking a couple hundred pictures, hoping I get something good that shows the essence of the poverty there.  I really look forward to it; but the only thing I keep thinking about is getting really cool pictures of the kids and whatnot.  I guess I just really want to remember this year, as it may be my last.  Wish me luck or pray for me if you do that kind of thing.

AMBIII

I'm an aboriginal

 So I have decided to make a didgeridoo. It will be quite amazing. Hopefully I can learn to somewhat make a noise out of it.  Anybody know where I can get natural beeswax?  I need it to finish my instrument. 

Hopefully I can be like this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc

AMBIII

P.S.--I FOUND THE BEESWAX!!! Now I have 3 days and 9 hours to construct and learn to play it.