Sigh

Some mornings are better than others. Some mornings, I wake up and think that I'll kick some kind of ass today. Other mornings, I wake up and immediately find an article about an 18-year-old commercial photographer who is flying around the world on a monthly basis. And it's just depressing.

Sigh.

Anyway.

This is over in Irondale -- just testing the camera before an assignment. The shutter release on the battery extension only works erratically as of late.

Hey, it was there

It's outside the Irondale City Hall and I was there, waiting for somebody. Wheeeee.

The King

No, not Elvis. King cotton. From a couple weeks ago.

Just splitting the goodies

None of these will run, but I thought I might post 'em here just so I can say I'm keeping up with my blogs. From the St. Aloysius School's All Saints Day celebration this morning."Yo, how's my halo look? Straight? Cool.""And I was all, 'yo, that Saint Nicholas guy ain't nothing but--' ... crap, he's right behind me, isn't he?"
Can't even go to church these days without somebody sticking a wide angle lense in your face.
Saint Nick's plottin' to nick the priest's communion goblet. Or planning world domination. Either way, kiddo, count me in.

Ahh, good times with the Catholics. Almost as good as that time I put Alka-seltzer under my fingernails and dipped 'em in the holy water. Those guys had no sense of humor.

"Pretend like I'm not here"

That's what I say to kids when I have an assignment around them: "pretend like I'm not here, okay?" Because I don't really want them to look at me, or give me a big smile, or throw up some kind of gang sign ... yeah, that's happened before, damn near killed myself laughing so hard ... And then there are the people who aren't really looking at you, which might run ...

Just a little tidbit

I'll be posting (hopefully) an embedded Soundslides later with more photos later. Unfortunately, I don't have any audio to go with it -- my recorder was dead, and the three closest convenience stores to the gin didn't have any AAA batteries.

Heeeey ...

... hmm, just tossing this up there, but don't I know somebody who went to Marist ...?

Check my other blog (later, they're not up yet and won't be up till much later) for more photos from the Great American Cross Country Festival, yeehaw.