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Energy of a Child (2)
December 13, 2007I didn't want to overwhelm you all with 4 photos in one blog, so I split up the cute kids from 2007 section
Here are the other two...
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
Mikah Slatter, 8, tries to coax her show goat "Peanut Butter" to the other side of the pen at the Wichita County Junior Livestock Show at the J.S. Bridwell Ag. Arena.
Let me preface this with a simple disclaimer... like my friend Zach Duncan, I am a city boy. Born and raised on the mean asphalt streets of Fort Worth suburb... Benbrook. (The Brook as we call it). So the last couple of years, my trip to the Wichita County Junior Livestock Show has been an adventure all its own.
I never wanted a pig... or goat, horse, cow, llama, chicken, turkey or rabbit growing up.
So these kids get all kinds of extra kudos for raising these things and showing them off... knowing that they may get auctioned off and butchered. That takes guts.
This year... primary goal number one for me was to find a kid kinda struggling with their animal. It may sound kind of cruel, but would make for a great great photo.
I found my photo in the goat section... this little darling girl just could not convince her goat to move from the spot he was standing in. I thought that perhaps my presence in the large pen would sway him to move away from me... but that was not the case.
I quickly got my shots... got the girls name... and made it out of there before I burst out laughing. It was just too cute for words.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
Jahreme Austin concentrates as he balances a paper butterfly on his finger during a science class at MSU. More than 130 from Fannin, Huey and Burgess toured the campus of Midwestern State Wednesday morning.
This was one of those shots that just kind of happened out of shear luck. It was a kid tour at MSU day, and there were about 6 groups I could have chosen to follow around. I tried to get several groups, and just happened to luck out with this group doing something that was really a good photo op.
I used the telephoto lens so I wouldn't disturb this kid's concentration on the paper butterfly, but really wanted to capture the expression in his eyes as he was doing it.
Had he have opened a big broad smile, I'd have tried to zoom out a bit and get those pearly whites, but there was no smile... just pure concentration. He had no idea I was taking pictures of him, which allowed me several more seconds to get it just right by moving slightly left or right.
When I showed him the shot on the back of my camera.... that's when his big smile made an appearance and it was worth the wait.
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