Hoggetowne Medieval Faire

Annual Hoggetowne Medieval Faire = Amazing turkey legs + Amazing visuals

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Today I spent the majority of the afternoon in High Springs at fire station 29, where Pearson has worked for 14 months. The station is independent from Gainesville Fire Department and is the only fire station in all of High Springs. Consequently, the firemen there serve the entire city, as well as a 5-mile strip on I-75. Here are a few of the more interesting shots from the day.

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I hate to pull stuff from the dusty web-filled corners of my hard drive, but I was revisiting some things and found this photo I took at New Smyrna Beach a few years back. I didn't think much of it at the time, but at the moment I would give anything to be that man on the bike. In fact, I've been staring at this image long enough now that I can even hear the waves break and smell the salty air. The other image caught my eye too, so even though it has nothing to do with bicycles and beaches, I thought i'd go ahead and include it anyway. So here's to a little envy, nostalgia and boredom.

Ups

Morning Workout

More on my picture story.

the Kage

I'm currently working on a photography story for my Advanced Photo II class about Kevin "Kage" Pearson, a professional MMA fighter and full-time firefighter. When Pearson isn't training or teaching at F2 Arena & Darkside Athletics in Gainesville, Fla., he works as a firefighter in High Springs. I've only spent one afternoon with Pearson so far, but this will be a five-week-long project. So stay tuned.

33rd annual Collectors Day

I've been extremely busy lately on various projects and haven't posted anything in a while, so here you go.

Once a year collectors from all over Florida bring everything from Beatles memorabilia to chess boards to samples of sand to show off at Collectors Day held at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. I stopped by with Alex to shoot a multimedia piece for our new website, Get2KnowGainesville.com (in progress). Unfortunately, the mic apparently wasn't working properly as all the audio in the interviews turned out horrible. But besides that and the fact that Alex and I were babysat by PR all day, it was still fun to meet all the nice people and see their unique collections.

At first this event made me want to start some sort of a collection. But then I realized I do collect something: I collect moments! They're the best thing to collect, really.

Cane Boil and Fiddle Contest

Here is a really rough edit of the multimedia project on the Gainesville Cane Boil and Fiddle Contest that Alex and I put together for class. We didn't have a lot of time, and it got the grade for class, but we're still going to go back and fix some things. I'll update it later.

Annual Cane Boil at Morningside Nature Center in Gainesville, Fla.

November 26, 2011

This past Saturday was the annual Cane Boil and Fiddle Contest at Morningside Nature Center here in Gainesville. For my photography final, my classmate Alex and I were assigned to do a multimedia project of the event, including video, audio and stills combined and edited in Final Cut. (Below are some stills I took for the final project. I'll post that when it's done.)

An attempt at some "fashion" photography

November 12, 2011

So this week's assignment was to shoot two fashion photographs demonstrating an assigned theme (mine was "south"). Fashion is definitely not my strong point, but I knew that I at least wanted to include a cowboy hat. I ended up with a cowboy-ish one instead. (Shhh, don't tell anyone, but the hat tag is hanging down in the back. I kept quiet, though, and nobody in my class said anything, so all is good.)

Me, Shane, Heidi

at Kanapaha Park

Branding

November 3, 2011

Cowboy Jason Hiers brands cattle in Gainesville, Fla.