Rain, rain, rain, 50-60 degree weather, plus more rain... wait. It's May 9--isn't it supposed to be summer? Gah! Dang Indiana weather--I just don't get it...
Anyways, I won't have any pictures posted on this blog from today until tomorrow mainly because I am lazy and feel more like writing as of the moment than posting pretty pictures. So I pulled the assignment for the last IU track meet of the season today which began around 3 in the afternoon. Feeling tired, I took a two-hour long nap from 2-4. When I awoke, it was rainy and nasty outside--it was already overcast and cool before I fell asleep.
Dragging myself off of the Arbutus couch, I walked on over to the Haugh track complex and made feeble attempts to get some decent photos of athletes doing their things. I captured some good moments at the high-jump and pole vault but hands and legs kept on getting chopped off such as the example here:
Also, I was at one part in the way of the press box's view of the finish line and was told via the P.A. that "those next to the finish line need to either move one way or the other." "Thanks guys!" I thought. Heck, at least they did not say "photographer near the finish line." Ugh, all-in-all a terrible assignment weather-wise and picture-wise. But here are some of my decent results, including the one at the top:
I did have a good chuckle at the track though. Yes, I realize and agree that it is terrible to laugh at somebody else's misfortune but the two guys in this photo just could not raise the hurdles. Just writing about it now makes me laugh--they were at it for about three minutes!
On a happy note, when I got back to my apartment, the tv was blaring--my roommates probably left it on when they left--jeez... Anyways, after glancing at it I realized that the movie, "The New Guy", was on. Having seen it before about eight years ago, I was intrigued to watch it. LOL, it was the best movie ever--maybe it has been a while since I just lounged in front of the tv. You should look into watching it whenever you are bored or need a good movie to watch--I recommend it!
This movie made my evening!
1 comment:
lol, I know what you mean, these kinds of days stink.
I really like the rain coming off the guys in the first picture. It's not really all that common to have rain in sports pictures so it's good that you kept shooting.
I can't tell you how many times I've been told to move or even kicked out of places because I crept too close or was in somebody else's way. It gets a little less embarrassing over time believe it or not. I got kicked out of two places on a baseball field the other day and my sports editor was even laughing at me, but for the first time I really didn't care I just wanted to do a good job, go home and eat ice cream.
On another subject, you guys are really doing good multimedia stuff!
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