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Shots from the 2008 Wheelchair Nationals/Sunshine Classic are up on the site.

I’m quite happy with the shots, for the seat I chose. I put a lot of the things that I learned at the February RMSP seminar up in Jacksonville to good use.

The giant white CJ banner fouled the white balance in the shots if a competitor moved, or was placed, entirely in front of it. Most shots I shot slightly off-center to keep a certain portion of the banner in the frame for white balance, then cropped it out in post-processing.

I left the show early.

More specifically, I had to leave before the prejudging was complete because I had other obligations. The show started an hour late, and ran at a pace I can only call moderate to slow. No useful explanation was forthcoming for anything.

Maybe I was grumpy because it bumped lunch so far back, or maybe I’ve been spoiled by really well-run shows of late, but after a while it gets to feel just plain insulting– and I’m *used* to a bit of delay, Bob only knows what the first-time spectators thought.

Everyone got shots, though, and I got to my next stop on time.

Why in the name of all reason did I have to expend extra time and effort to purchase a Federal postage stamp to send my Federal income tax return to the Federal Department of the Treasury?

It’s the simple inanities like this that give Fair Tax such a boost.