The good and the bad... leaving Elkhart

With every good thing, there is something to counteract it.

Today is my last day at my internship and I have had the most amazing time and I am now freaking out about having to leave. Here is how my pro/con list has begun to look.

Good: I did my 10-week internship! Awesome! Now I can check that off my DARS!

Bad: What? I'm done? That means senior year... that means real world... [hyperventilating]

Good: Now I can go home and see Mom, Patrick, and my friends back in Cleveland for a few days.

Bad: I'm leaving my new friends and home and I really have been enjoying it. Plus I don't want to go to the doctors! 

Good: I have learned so much at The Truth and improved so much thanks to so many people.

Bad: Once again, I really don't want to leave my friends. 

Good: Yay senior year is going to begin! OU, Oh yeah!

Bad: Oh. My. God. Senior Year?

Good: My summer actually wasn't all work and no fun! I got to go all sorts of places and lucked out living with amazing people and their awesome dog.

Bad: Oh, I made good friends and now I have to leave them? This sucks.

Good: I got to shoot all sorts of interesting things and had lots of fun assignments.

Bad: There are so many more things I want to do and shoot! How did 10-weeks pass so fast?

The list goes on and on. But even though today is my last day, I hope to keep the friends I have made for a lifetime! 

-rso-

Fair time...

As the Elkhart County 4-H Fair gets off to a start, I find myself very busy and a bit sunburnt. Some of the assignments are your usual group shots of 4-H winners with multiple wins and multiple participants which all must be I.D. correctly for the caption versus just saying "Poultry Showmanship winners". But it's cool, you are a kid you won an award, the least I can do is let your name be under the caption of the pic for the paper for your 24 hrs of fame. I think I just don't get 4-H. Well, some aspects of it at least. I mean the horse stuff is cool and some of the animals end up being pets at the end of the fair. But, as I have confided in a few people, I have a whole "Charlotte's Web" complex and the feeling that it is just a death camp for the poor animals entered in some of the competitions. They all look so sad. I try not to venture to that side of the fair unless I have to. 

I did shoot an armwrestling competition that got pretty intense with the other intern, Dustin, who wrote a great story about that and the strong man competition (which I did not get to shoot). Also did a quick and dirty soundslides on the cheerleading competition. I am actually quite pleased with it, more so because the pictures were so funny and the out takes I didn't include probably could have humiliated those poor jr. high and high school girls. I'm not THAT cruel... just sorta. Plus it was just fun to be around the madness of it; oh, and that i'm secretly jealous I was never able to do all those cheerleader moves. I did my cheer camp at Atlantic High School as a kid and got to be thrown in the air and cheer for the local high school's basketball team (they won, obviously thanks to us cheerleaders), and then I retired my green and white pom poms. :-P

Anyway here are some pix from the arm wrestling and the link to the Cheerleading soundslides. I feel bad for not adding more on here and adding all the random things I have been shooting, time just gets away. OH! And here is a soundslides I did on deadline for a vintage baseball team!!! Highly amusing. Enjoy!

-r-

 

Makin' it in Michiana

So Im starting week 3 of my internship and so far I have had an amazing time. Los and Em and Mac the dog are great company at home and the people at work are all great. Some assignments have been scary (first day, 15 mins in, covered a murder-suicide ), some have been happy (Jazz Fest, kids painting houses), and you know... the usual day to day news. Haha. If you want to see my stuff go to www.etruth.com. This is from a hot weather story we did. It was 95 degrees for like 3 days straight.

-r-

Anointed Praise

My piece is finally on SoA!!!

http://2009.soulofathens.com/?q=node/55

-ro-

TRAILERPARK!!!!!

Check out the trailer for Trailerpark!!!