From the Chandler Rodeo last Friday night.
Good to be back shooting baseball for the Spring. Shot a bunch today at the Norman JV vs. Moore game in a tournament in Del City.
You can see more photos here.
A worker spreads de-icer at the Oklahoma City Memorial following this week's snow storm.
From my recent weekend trip to San Francisco. The view from Chrissy Fields.
So, I had set up and waited for a good sunset shot for quite a while on the highway outside of Taos, New Mexico last night. After a valliant attempt at waiting around, it became certain that the sky wasn’t cooperating and the pictures I had taken looked like the photographic equivalent of pea soup.
Since I was sure the results were going to be so-so we packed up the gear and headed down the road. Then the red-orange sky illuminated, like a light switch coming on.
Out of the car. Set up the tripod and, fortunately, someone had been wise enough to construct a fence in exactly the right place so that the image has a focal element beyond just the colors.
Pure serendipity.
A shot taken on this week’s road trip across New Mexico. The above image of a fall thunderstorm was taken near Duran, NM. Am currently in Silver City, NM hanging out with the prospectors and miners.
Norman WR Jaime Myers goes high to make the catch over Norman North defender Dae Ross.
Here’s one of the shots I got tonight at the cross-town rivalry game — Norman High vs. Norman North. A good job by the Tigers, winning 24-7.
About the best softball game I’ve ever been to (well, true I haven’t attended all that many): Norman High win over cross-town rival Norman North 2-1 on Friday night. It was Breast Cancer Awareness Night so both teams were decked out in slightly different shades of pink.
What I want to know is why girls softball — or any softball for that matter — is played on a dirt infield? Makes for good pics, but I’ve seen cleaner rodeos.
For a complete gallery of Norman-Norman North softball pics go here.
Put this photo up as your wall paper for Mondays.
This was supposed to be the “bronc riding” event, but this rider gets thrown from the horse before even leaving the shoot. Took this last Friday night at the Pawnee Bill Memorial Rodeo in Pawnee, OK.
Had a great time photographing the Chandler (Okla.) Rodeo last weekend. I opted for the black and white presentation of photographs because, well, I’m a black and white guy mostly.
Click on the image above to go to the Flickr slide show that I put up.
This is one of the best rodeos I’ve attended in recent years. The public turnout was great — sort of a Friday night high school football atmosphere. Participants were good. People were friendly and everyone had a good time. Only knock: Dang hot. Temps over 95 at 8 p.m. Heat index of 111. I was dripping wet by the end of the bull riding events.
Downtown Oklahoma City is a construction zone. The OKC skyline is on the verge of re-design, with the Devon Tower construction reaching a pivotal waypoint as it begins to jut above the nearest buildings.
The end of the Edmondson name in Oklahoma politics
Drew Edmondson ended his political career last night, also likely marking the end of a 57-year period of Edmondsons to serve in elected office in Oklahoma. He narrowly lost the Democratic Party nomination for governor to Lt. Gov. Jari Askins. Edmondson said he will finish his current term as Attorney General and will not seek another political office.
I camped out at the Edmondson election-night watch party in Oklahoma City and took some photographs for this photo essay of the night:
Edmondson was a young assistant district attorney in Muskogee County in 1982 when I first met him. I was also fortunate to meet and write news stories then about his father, former U.S. Congressman Ed Edmondson (the brother to the late J. Howard Edmondson, former governor of Oklahoma).
In an era of TV sound-bite politics, Drew Edmondson is a bit old school. His oratory always reminded me of the Little Giant of Little Dixie, Speaker of the House Carl Albert, with his masterful choice of words delivered with vigor. I don’t know that Carl would have been so successful in today’s world. We seem to look for warm and fuzzy platitudes from our candidates. TV spots with flags waving in the background are more the norm than are stump speeches.
Maybe that is also why Edmondson fell about 1,500 votes short of getting the party nomination. He might have been tough enough to do the job — as his campaign signs said — but he came across as perhaps too tough or too weathered (meaning past his prime) to be the “new guy” in the governor’s mansion.
Actually, the “new guy” in the governor’s mansion will be a gal — either Askins or Republican nominee Mary Fallin. As one gal friend texted me last night (saying I was at the wrong watch party), “It’s a chick night”.
I took another Amtrak trip to Fort Worth on Saturday for some street photography at the National Day of the Cowboy. The Fort Worth Stockyards is a good place for seeing (and photographing) some interesting people and places. I appreciate Ken Rager and his Central Tech photography class allowing me to tag along with them on their field trip.
Here is a slideshow of images shot on Saturday.
Some Italian dudes photographed on my trip to Italy in 2006. The top image in Cortona. The bottom image at the Coliseum in Rome (of course).
That kid looks kind of familiar.
Little Italian girl with grandpa in the square of Cortona, Italy photographed during our 2006 trip to Europe.
Oh, wait. That’s my granddaughter, Hannah! Don’t know who the old guy is.
(Seriously, there is a familial respect and fondness for families and children in Italy; unlike what you will see even in most places of the U.S.).
