Shots from the 2006 Lakeland competition are up on the site.
The show was held at Florida Southern College, which was architected by Frank Lloyd Wright. I did get some shots of the outside with figure competitors Wendy and Teresa, and I’ll get them up as soon as I can (I am terribly backlogged).
I could spend a week in that place capturing light and never be bored.
Shots from the 2006 Florida Championships are up on the site.
Held at UCF for the first time in a while, Deke did a good job of putting on a big show.
Next up, Lakeland this Saturday. I’m going to try very hard to have Toni’s page up this week. There are also some things going on external to the site that may (or may not!) have some impact on the output schedule– more as I find out.
Shots from the 2006 Debbie Kruck are up on the site.
The shots came out a little redder than I prefer; I think I’m going to have to abandon the auto-white-balance when speed shooting across the width of the stage.
There were also some yabbos shooting with uncovered strobes flanking the stage; besides leaving me half-blinded, they ruined a couple dozen of my shots (and Ian’s too, I suspect).
More seriously, the show had no female bodybuilding competitors. None. Zero. I counted ’em twice.
The show *did* have a half-dozen or so talented female bodybuilders, who inexplicably showed up in the figure rounds.
What ya gonna do? I hate to abandon the state’s only Daytona-region show, but unless these issues get some discussion, I won’t be terribly motivated to go back next year. We’ll see if the topics come up.
Shots from the 2006 Ancient City in St Augustine are up.
I love this venue, the lighting is so nice.
I boosted the size of the shots by 20% as well, hopefully people will find this a good change. Enjoy.
Okay, from the outset I have to apologize. It’s my own fault; I *know* to allow extra time for construction when coming across US 192.
Truckers used to use 192 as a fast shortcut from the Orlando area to I-95. The DOT decided that they wanted them to pay tolls instead, so construction on 192 is scheduled for completion approximately when hell freezes over.
Worse, I missed the turnoff for the venue and had to loop about 1/2 a mile around the block. So I was 15 minutes late getting there.
I’d missed half the show. Literally.
My fault. I’m sorry.
The rest of the prejudging took about another 30 minutes. I’ve posted what I managed to get. Enjoy.
Okay, rather than start from scratch I decided to take the existing design and see if I could install the “brains” of the bodybuilding page (the part that builds and sizes all the links based on the page name and config file, and the extra information associated with each show).
The answer: yes, I could.
This means that contest pages (Mid-Florida and forward) should work in both IE and in good browsers now, and also should integrate more nicely into the style of the site as a whole.
So that worked out; though I’m still not completely happy with the apparent incomplete download on the pop-ups, I can live with it for now. I’m curious as to how the new layout works on screens with lower resolution than mine– drop me a note on the feedback link if you have a comment.
Hopefully I can catch up on some of the other latent projects over the next few days: I still have:
* the Space Coast show to put up,
* a very nice update to Sherry’s page to finish,
* a travelogue from my last Cincinnati trip,
* about nine brazillion photos of figure competitor Toni to go through, and
* a shoot of figure competitor Brandy Gardner to handle.
And oh, and the Ancient City is next weekend.
And oh, I’ve started my diet– not sure if I’m competing or not, but I’m going to train towards it anyway.
So much to do… (boggle)
All the shots from the 2006 Mid-Florida Muscle Classic are up. Quality’s not what I prefer, but when you’re speed-shooting in the darkest venue on the circuit, you takes what you gets.
Before anyone asks, I have no idea what the story was on the albino guy in the green suit. Rumour has it he lost a *lot* of weight. He only got two shots in the site, not because he was embarassing, but because he couldn’t pose to save his life. And when you’re speed-shooting, you can’t wait for someone to accidentally land a good one– other shots are passing you by while you wait.
Next show up is the Ancient City, and that’s a very well-lit stage. Before that, though, I have half of the Space Coast show to put up. At least it should go more quickly. With luck then I can address the backlog of portrait shots…
One more thing, I modified the pages to work with more current HTML (only a slight modification of the working code on the portrait and stock sites). I’ve just been informed that it’s not working in IE. Of course my first suggestion is “get Firefox”, but if you *must* use IE, here is the temporary workaround: hold down your “Shift” key while you click the thumbnail. This pops open a blank window, which forces IE to redraw the page. Meantime, hang in there, I’ll get it working.