I was called to sit on a grand jury this week.
I did my civic duty, but man were they ever squirmy.
Archive
Archive for November, 2007Shots from the 2007 Southeastern are up on the site.
There weren’t that many competitors, actually, but since they got to compete in multiple classes this one took a bit longer than anticipated.
On the plus side, the lighting was good and I was really able to bring some of the shots to life, I think.
One more show to go, then look forward to seeing some individual shoot updates and even some new pages.
Sanction Saturday is December 1. I think I am going to go. I’m desperately curious as to whether there will be a 2008 show in Gainesville– I need to train for another one soon.
Follow-up: Yes, this year will mark the First Annual Greater Gainesville show in mid-October.
We were in a local big-box department store yesterday, and we saw a 9-foot plastic Christmas tree offered for–
— Are you sitting down?–
Four hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
For molded plastic.
Okay, sure, if the tree could do my Christmas shopping for me, I’d consider it. It might even be a bargain.
But no, the thing just sits there, sadly, trying to convince the world that it’s worth the ticketed price, and knowing full well that it’s not.
(Insert your favorite Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton joke here, if desired.)
Shots from the 2007 Lakeland show are up on the site– which means I am finally working my way into the backlog.
I always enjoy Deb’s shows, they’re well-run and entertaining. And if you’ve never been to Florida Southern College and seen the amazing architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, you should make the trip. I love having the chance to geek out for a few moments. :)
Shots from the 2007 Hurricane/Typhoon Bay are (finally) up on the site.
I may have mentioned that the only thing I like better than speed shooting is speed shooting when it really isn’t necessary.
I think it stinks that some competitors get fewer, and worse, shots because of an accident of geography that puts them in the far corner of the stage when their class (or portion thereof) is called out. *Usually* the head judge will swap them around– but not always, and there’s no way to tell until it’s too late.
Part of this is my own fault– since the Dexter Jackson show, I’ve let myself be swayed by what other people think about how shots should look, instead of shooting what I know I’m good at. At the All-South I realized that, and not only got *way* better shots than the last few, but enjoyed the process a lot more as well.
That’s for a future rambling post, though– this one’s hopefully made the point, and I’ve still got to get the Lakeland and Southeastern shots up before I can get to the All-South, then start in on the backlog.
Apropos nothing, I finally got fed up with the games my ISP has been playing, continually losing my counter files on the “virtual host”, so I created a database-driven version that seems to be working a lot better. I fed in the last-known-good value, just over 600K visits, and we’ll let it run from there- though I suspect I’m well over a million hits by now.