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Sheesh, that took a while. Variations in lighting across a stage are absolute murder on shot consistency. Another big show, great work by promoter Chris Eaddy, and finally finally FINALLY I can work on the other backlogs.

Did a quick shoot with Debbie Barnes, looking great for an upcoming show; ran into Ellen Woodley, prepping for the same upcoming show– we may be able to sneak in a quick shoot right before or right after. Saw Belle Turell in the audience, too, looking good after her performance at the North Americans, but her attention was elsewhere.

Anyway, the shots from October 7th’s Southeastern Classic show in Orlando are up on the site. Enjoy.

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.

I put together a travelogue from my trip to Cincinnati this year. Feel free to let me know what you think about the content or the format.

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)