Shots from the 2012 Gateway Classic and Lake City Championships, held April 21st in Lake City, FL, are up on the site.
Tony Curtis put on another well-run show, and everyone appeared to have a great time.
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Shots from the 2012 Orlando Metro, held April 7th in Orlando, FL,are up on the site.
Sorry for the delay, it’s been insanely hectic of late and I’ve also been fighting with my Web host over some RAM restrictions that have been interfering with the normal operation of the site.
The Gateway shots should be up in short order, and I also did a shoot with Peggy Hilbert recently that will provide a nice update to her page.
Just got done entering the info from the official 2012 NPC schedule into the lucas-photo.com searchable database.
I tweaked the input mechanism several times too, so things did go comparatively quickly, but a lot of the information is already slightly out of date, and where the promoters had an active website for 2012 I tracked down additional information that the official page doesn’t have yet.
With the addition of yet another set of classes– Men’s and Women’s Physique– I am envisioning a grid format for both display and input of the information, but more on that when I have a chance to play with it.
Speaking of…
I saw the women’s physique class for the first time at the Orlando Metro show this weekend. While men’s physique has much more of a latent GQ quality about it, women’s physique appears to have the exact format as women’s bodybuilding– presumably the judges are using just using different criteria.
They certainly looked like local-level bodybuilders to me.
Me, I don’t really know what to make of it all. In the short term, the new divisions might increase participation and attendance.
At the same time, though, there’s no question that it’s further diluting the product. (There were zero female bodybuilders in this show. I counted them. Twice).
One has to wonder about the condition of that product when someone gets inspired to slice the cake into still thinner slices. Considering that there are already competitors out there who could successfully cross anywhere from bikini up to physique, or from figure to bodybuilding, what factors are left to differentiate them?
As I said, I don’t really know what to make of it.
Thank goodness for the holiday break. I finished the shots from the July shoot with Sherry and got them up on her page. Hope you enjoy.
Shots from the 2011 All-South, held November 5th in St Augustine, FL,are up on the site.
This is maybe the most consistent color balance I’ve ever gotten from a show, despite being seated somewhat left of center stage and a slight lack of light to stage right (must remember to sit closer to the darker side to compensate). As usual Pete and Gene put on a wonderful show which flowed smoothly start to finish and attracted top-conditioned athletes.
This closes out the year for me; the Nationals are being held in Miami this year but that show is just too darn big for me to cover properly, plus the holidays are almost upon us and dang it, I am just hopping from one project to the next.
I hope you enjoy seeing the shots as much as I enjoy taking them, and I would love to hear from you with any praise or criticism, or just to say “hi”.
Shots from the 2011 Southeastern USA, held October 22 in Orlando, are up on the site.
Big freakin’ show. That’s all I can say. One big freakin’ show. Because of the overwhelming number of competitors in the “Physique” classes, the show ran ‘way long, judging was rushed, and there were far too many people on stage at once.
This was the first show I’ve shot at Olympia High School (appropriate name), and the venue is quite nice. Shot quality is hit-or-miss because of the conditions I mentioned, but overall not too bad. Enjoy.
Shots from the 2011 Lakeland , held September 10, are up on the site.
Crossing a stage that was brilliantly lit by more than a half-dozen Mason jars containing a dead firefly each, the level of competition was nevertheless outstanding.
I also ran in to Melissa Babers who has been somewhat scarce of late while she attends to frivolous pastimes such as raising her child.
We did a mini-shoot with a competitor she was training and with luck I’ll be able to persuade Melissa to take some new shots for her page later in the fall.