Shots from the 2010 Ancient City Classic, held in St Augustine, FL on May 15, are up on the site.
I purchased a new medium-range lens and while the shots came out a bit dark, overall I am quite pleased with it. My only gripe: it zooms backwards (e.g. Nikon style) and that crossed me up all morning.
The venue has pleasing architecture and I’d rather hoped there would be an opportunity for a shoot outside, but… didn’t happen.
New shots of fitness competitor Toni are up on her page.
These shots were taken at a nearby diner before it opened for the day, and the lighting was very eclectic and fun– everything from neon to soft light to reflections from the chrome.
The presence of an old VW van for sale in the parking lot, combined with Toni’s fortunate choice of casual wardrobe, also enabled me to recreate a sort of idealized 1950s vacation snapshot or two.
I still have two? three? more shoots with Toni waiting to be posted (including one at the location with the breathtaking light), but to be fair to everyone I’m trying desperately to process all the backlog in chronological order.
Next up are new shots of Adrienne Ann Smith, who has been extraordinarily patient waiting for her updates.
Just found out that the Tampa show prejudging starts about 9 am and is scheduled to run past 2 pm.
I don’t really feel as though I have that much time to spare– I’d have to be up about 5:30 AM to get a good seat and I wouldn’t get home until 5 or so. I think I’m going to shoot Deke’s show in Orlando the following weekend instead, even though the lighting is better at the Tampa venue.
Yes, it’s an actual factual site update! Real new photos and everything!
The 2008 Armed Forces show is now up on the site.
Well you know how busy I’ve been, with the wedding coming up, the job situation, and everything else seemingly falling more and more behind.
But there’s hope yet. I’ve been sneaking in work on the site whenever I can fit it, and happy that I managed to finish a section that can be published. I’m not delighted with the quality of my work in this show– the auditorium has excellent lighting, but the banners tended to muck up the white balance, and as I recall the show was paced far faster than one that size needed to be. But there are a few nice shots in there.
Speaking of, word on the street is that the 2009 Florida NPC schedule is just days away from release. Afterward of course it’ll take me a bit to incorporate it into the LP database (thereby making it searchable).
All South is the last show I have for 2008, and no promises as to when it’ll be ready but it hopefully won’t take as long as this last one. I’ve also got updates for Toni‘s page, some new stock photos, a new page (shh! a secret for now), an update to Adrienne Ann Smith‘s page, and probably a half dozen more I don’t remember right now.
In addition, I’ve got a *ton* of cool stuff waiting to update the Six Flags Atlantis Memorial, so sometime very soon I’ve got to get that done.
So stay tuned, and thanks for your patience.
Shots from the 2008 Greater Gainesville are up on the site.
I can’t thank promoter Brian Elliot enough for the amazing job he’s done resurrecting bodybuilding here in my hometown. Probably 90 percent of the competitors were going on stage for their first competition, and that’s always a promising sign. The show was amazingly well-lit, and ran as smoothly as any I’ve seen.
Everyone had an enjoyable time and I’m already looking forward to the show next year.
Next shows to go up: the 2008 All Forces and the 2008 All South.
(BTW, carelessly erasing the flurry of “Vote for Me!” ads from the latest political carnival, I accidentally deleted a phone call from one of the competitors asking about shots from the Gainesville. Please shoot me an email, thanks.)
New photos of fitness competitor Toni A. are up on her page.
I loved the light in this shoot, and Toni was fun as always.
More of her soon…
Finally another visible dent in the backlog: shots of lovely Florida competitor Jenny Tremblay have been added to the site.
I hear that she’s been very busy of late but with any luck we’ll see her back on the competition stage soon.
I started (insert the eternal “at last” here) working on shots of cute fitness competitor Teresa Meryman from that same show in Lakeland. They were coming out very nicely, but I paused when I realized how long it’s been since I’ve heard from her– she may not want them on the site now, and I still have a *ton* of other shots to catch up on, not to mention the shots from Saturday’s show in Lake City that are only about 2/3 finished.
Anyway, I shot an apologetic email to the last address I had for her; if anyone knows how to contact her, ask her to check her mail as soon as she can.