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December 31, 2006Hard to believe...but I'm almost through with the Best of 2006 series I've been running.
Sure enough...I probably could have had it finished by now if I had written a blog every day, but oh well. Sometimes it's best to leave you wanting more.
Well...here are a few.
Rick Wylie performs on stage at the Texas Roadhouse Thursday evening during their Summer Concert Series show featuring Kevin Fowler and Rick Wylie to kickoff the Texas Ranch Roundup. (Jason Palmer/Times Record News
If you didn't happen to catch any of the Texas artists outdoors at the Texas Roadhouse and their Summer Concert Series...you missed out. Big Time.
Thursday nights....under the stars...gorgeous Texas evenings and good Texas country music. It was one of the most brilliant ideas this town has had in years.
The folks at the Iron Horse know that putting on big outdoor concerts can work. The folks at Texas Roadhouse took a cue and brought in some pretty big names on the Texas music scene...including Kevin Fowler. There wasn't another Roadhouse in the nation doing something like this.
I couldn't help but get excited about an outdoor stage and the possibilities of a sunset background.
But of course...the sun wouldn't play nice. It set rather un-dramatically behind a bank of clouds, much to my bitter disappointment. It still worked out to one of my favorite concert shots from the entire year.
Maybe it was because I just had so much fun shooting freely and outdoors.
Emma Driggers (left) and Abby Canfield (right) practice a ballet move as instructor Bethany Talley positions Hayven Ramsey's feet during their dance class. (Jason Palmer/Times Record News)
This was the main image from a series I shot earlier this year at a children's dance studio.
There probably isn't a cuter shot I took the entire year...actually, it was hard to pick my favorite out of the series.
But shots like this aren't very easy...especially when you have a room full of little kids watching your every move. There IS a trick to it.
Staying very still and making yourself small.
I'm a big guy....6'1" 245 lbs.....I'm fairly easy to spot too. Usually with a big camera in my face.
Once I had established myself in the dance practice room, the hard part was to move around and get the shots I want without the girls looking right at me. The key was to anticipate their movements....be in the right spot...and stay still.
Kids' attention spans are about 7 seconds if you don't do anything. They will look right at you...then find something else to look at. That's when you take the shot.
I knew that they were going to line up on the bars to practice their footwork...so I moved into position and waited for the right shot to happen before me.
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