Friday Night Under the Lights

Friday Sept. 28, 2007

East Lyme - First football game of the season. Football is and remains one of my favorite sports to shoot. I am not sure why. Maybe it is the predictability factor. Or maybe you cannot grow up in a small New England town without having some affection for small town sports. I am unsure. I do know this however, I have a strong dislike of on-camera flash. I am working on ways to light football, and do so practically. Stay tuned in case I get it figured out.

Did someone catch the number of that bus???

Postcards from Nantucket

Friday Sept. 14th - Monday Sept. 17th

Nantucket - That's right, bag this photojournalism crap! I am opening a bike shop on Nantucket! Later suckers!

Just kidding of course. I surprised Emily with a long weekend on the island. And when I say "surprised" that means that she did not know our final destination until we were at the ticket counter at T.F. Green airport. Here we are about to board our mighty steed.

Here was our first view of the island as we were on final approach.

It is one thing for a man when your girlfriend asks you to hold her purse. But it is another when she leaves her funny looking dog in it.

Here we are hitting the wonderful island bike paths on Sunday. Mind you I had not been on a bike in over a decade, and needless to say that our 19-mile treck left me a little sore until about...oh, midweek.

She was on sale, but we didn't buy her.

Sunrise breakfast menu, and yes it tasted as good as it sounds.

Man, I guess he was thirsty! I think this should be the new logo for the island of Nantucket, what do you think?

And finally no short vacation is complete with out the romantic shot by the lighthouse. The only reason that this was not at sunset was due to the fact that our flight left at 4:10 p.m.

Also rans

Here are some shots that I was planning on posting but did not have the time.

Saturday Sept. 22nd - Groton - The USS Augusta returns to the Sub Base after its final deployment. She heads to decomissioning from here. This was a bit sad because this was one of the three submarines that I have ridden. It was the shortest trip of the bunch (lasting roughly 1 hour, but hey, it counts)

Tuesday Sept. 18th - Fishers Island Sound - Sandbaggers (1800s working harbor boats) Bear and Bull cruise the sound off of Noank. There was a third sandbagger from the Mystic Seaport which was our local link. Bear and Bull are from New Jersey. The local boat did not make the shot.

Saturday Sept. 22nd - New London - What else do you photograph at a music festival when there are no bands playing?

Friday Sept. 21st - New London - Four hours before going to the NEAPNEA banquet I was sludging my way through the storm water drainage pipes under the mean streets of New London. This is not a sewer, just storm water. They had completely filled with sediment causing mass flooding in downtown New London during heavy rains. Here is the progress that the clean-up crews have made.

We are not men, we are DEVO! The best part of the drainage pipe assignment was that I got to wear this rockin' DEVO suit! The only thing missing is the upside-down flower pot on my head. I recognize that many of you may have no idea about what the hell I am talking about. DEVO was a great band from the early 80s that wore crazy outfits, not unlike this one. For those of you who do know what I am talking about...WHIP IT GOOD!

Deuces Wild!

Friday Sept. 21, 2007

Plymouth, MA - I got me some plaques! What a couple of knuckleheads. Here is a photo of my good friend Peter Pereira, right, and myself at the NEAPNEA (New Engand Associated Press News Executives Association) annual awards banquet last night after we both took home a pair of 1st place awards. My awards were for Deadline News and Sports Feature, Pete's were for Photo Story and Portrait. Pete also took home a 3rd for Photo Story while I was part of a dynamic trio that took home the 2007 Web Site award for Special Section on our coverage of the Equality Ride. A special shout out to friends, fellow bloggers, and cohorts John Galayda, Corey Perrine, Dana Jensen, Tim Martin, Ken McGagh, Tom Rettig, Kristen Olson, and Vyto Starinskas, several of which I met for the first time last night, all of which brought home awards. Congrats! Also to Emily for smiling though the endless hours of photo-tech talk, and a really bad case of prime rib. Prime my ass!

Thursday Sept. 20, 2007

New London - A niece comforts her aunt after they escaped their burning apartment building with the aunts two infants. First it was a call for a fire. Then it was a call for people trapped and a 2nd alarm. Then the Battalion Chief came on the radio saying that ground ladders had to be used due to powerlines that would block the ladder trucks. I am unsure how many traffic laws I broke on my way to the scene. Being called to a fire is one thing, but when you hear that people are trapped, it makes your blood run cold. Most of the time they will be saved without incident. But until you get to the scene and confirm that eveyone is okay, it seems that your heart skips every-other beat.

Here are New London's bravest knocking down what turned out to be a pretty small fire. The firefighters aided the escape of the family, and needless to say that things were a little exciting around town for a few moments.

Bummer...

Monday Sept. 3, 2007 - Labor Day

New London - Yea, that's right, Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer. Gives me the blues. Pretty soon the only thing you see on this beach is sea gulls. Yes, I know that the warm weather will stick around for another month at least, but it just seems that the summer has gone by too fast. I want a do-over, try it again, maybe I'll get it right this time. Oh well, better luck next year.