Hello Suburbia, it's been a while

Today I had to photograph a story about the increased number of vacant houses in Saginaw County. Well the writer wanted to take a different angle and I went to photograph the new subdivision in Freeland. So many homes!

Once I finished shooting for the paper I took a quick driver around the neighborhood and was reminded of my second year photo professor Jen Moon. She told about her time in suburban neighborhoods, shooting with a 4x5 camera, at night. She then showed my class a multimedia piece she made where the homes looked like they were being pulled apart to then show the next home and the audio was this crazy pulling/crunching sound. I can't seem to find the piece. But here's one of her pieces.

Here's my view of the burbs.

I also made a little video of my drive, seeing as blogger now lets you upload videos I might try it.

Feature Hunting

Today was a slow news day I went feature hunting around Saginaw. The only people who were out and about were kids so that's who I photographed. That nice thing about kids is that once they stop poising for the camera they will forget your there.

Cornfest

Today I got up early to hangout with a FedEx delivery truck driver then I got to go and shoot the CornFest set-up. I've shot a few festival set-ups and the people who work at the festivals/carnivals are usually an interesting group. Here are some of my shots.

4th of July

More firework coverage except this time it was on deadline and I got to work with the other intern Matt. I had a pretty good time and some shots that I liked. Here you go!

More Fireworks and it's still not the 4th

And one more thing

I don't know if anyone reads my blog or if they just skim through the photos occassionally but I was looking through one of my favorite blogs, Institute for Artist Management, and came across this post about the winner of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. If you have the time and are interested in documentary work this is for you. I'm offically adding Darcy Padilla to my list of things that inspire me.

I know lots of links but they're all worth the time.

Fire and Fireworks

Today I had my second spot news and shot fireworks in Bay City. So I got to shoot fire twice and I'll be shooting fire at least two times more by the 4th.