Tooting My Own Horn

So, here's the photo they ran in the Post today. Not gonna lie... It's pretty awesome to know that they decided to run one of my photos. I mean, I knew it was coming. It was mentioned to me when I signed up for my internship at Wolf Trap that occasionally the (Washington) Post would be sending reporters to review the shows and that naturally they'd be asking for photos. So, this photo is from the 19th Annual Louisiana Swamp Romp, which happened on probably THE hottest Sunday known to man. I think they said temperatures reached like 102º on the heat index (sun and humidity combined). Needless to say, shooting conditions were miserable and by the time this act had gone on stage, I'd been wanting to go home for like two hours. But, nonetheless, I got a shot (albeit not the greatest one, but the one that told the story) and I went home. So, now I'm published in the Washington Post and it'll happen again sometime this summer (I hope) and when it does, I'll be posting those links here too.

Thanks for all the kind words from everyone who I already told this too. Now hopefully Michel DuCille will take notice and offer me a job!

Humidity: It's Like Liquid Air

So, this is what my hair looked like today by the time I got home from work. No joke. Let me tell you folks something. You don't know humidity until you've lived on a swamp on the east coast in the middle of summer. Today it was 86º and like 150% humidity. This is not the greatest weather to have to run around in taking photos. To put it simply, it's also not good weather to wear jeans while running around taking photos. My jeans were completely stuck to me in places I didn't know even existed. My elbows were sweating! No... my ICE CREAM! was sweating!! Is that even possible? Yes. That's how humid it was. And, tomorrow is only going to be worse because it's supposed to be 97º. Hopefully Sunday, the sun will come out, burn off all the clouds, and just be hot. Ugh. It's days like today that make me really miss Montana. I'll take dry, cracking, bleeding knuckles in the winter to not have my jeans stick to me in the summer. Even Ptown isn't this bad. It's only humid when it hits like 110º and that rarely ever happens. I hear they still have rain. Sorry guys. In any case, humidity sucks. That's my story and I'm stickin to it.