Two recent favs

Ok, the fun run with the kids, the intensity of the kid in the gray always makes me smile. I gotta approach everyday with that kind of drive. Way to inspire kiddo! As for the frog, this kid kept bringing me all sorts of random things as I was shooting the family garden. A stick, a bug, a rock, you name it. Well he comes over with this tiny little frog between his fingers. Not a happy camper but cute as heck.

Dock Dogs

A competition where dogs leap into the water after a toy. Test speed, length, and intelligence (can they find the toy???). A really fun time, shot some video but the audio didn't turn out as good as I would like. Trying to decide what to do with it, because the video alone will make you smile.

Some end of the season baseball photos

Warren “Sneak” Lewis

Nash County Investigator Warren “Sneak” Lewis, 38, was shot and killed Thursday evening while on assignment with the Eastern North Carolina Fugitive Task Force in Kinston. We spent Friday at press conferences and driving around town to visit different memorials. Our hearts go out to his family that he left behind.

Bomb Scare

We had a gentlemen doing general home improvement on a trailer he rents out when he found a hand grenade. The bomb squad from Raleigh was called in, and they told us the grenade was rusted beyond use, and took it away. Amazing how boring a bomb scare can be when it takes over two hours for the squad to show up. In my boredom I found a willing model in the inchworm. To the great amusement of the reporter and several officers.

People

Places

Wow, so I have not been good at updating at all. My apologies. This week will bring massive updates as I have about 2 months to catch up on! First up, a sampling of some of the places I've been. Gotta love any room with an antler chandelier. As for that last photo, a gentlemen was doing his own version of a farm funeral with dead chickens, except the chicken parts were rather large and did not agree with state codes for fertilizer. I was rather sick when on this assignment, no voice and could barely breathe nonetheless smell. I figured what the heck, that wing would be really pretty against the sky with the grass so delicately hiding the remainder of the rotting carcass. So I threw on my wide angle and got down about 2 feet from the thing. The guy who took me out there asked I wasn't gagging from the smell. But I figure, if life hands you lemons make lemonade. Like this wider shot better than anything I shot with my longer lens and it's a different view than you'd expect.