April 26, 2004
April 25, 2004
Queens Cup Steeplechase
April 24th Marlene and I attended the Queen's Cup Steeplechase in Mineral Springs, NC. The people at the Queens cup asked the members of the Charlotte Camera Club to volunteer Photographers in return from free adminssion. They use us to suppliment the professional photographers that they hire for the race.
There were three of us there and we divided the track up into different territories. We all were supposed to shoot the races from various vantage points and I was detailed to work the tailgating crowds.
The tailgaters were a riot. The had a tailgating contest sponsored by Dickens-Michener I asked if I could accompany the judges in hopes of getting good pictures. We ended up mostly judging people in the Meadow's section of the racetrack. These were primarily company sponsored locations so they had pretty good spreads. Who knew that bribing judges was legal..:) I ended up getting some good pictures as well as 5 free beers and two mixed drinks. It also allowed me to pass out to some cards in hope they might purchase the pictures later from my event photography website.
All in all it was a good day, albeit a bit hot. The temps were in the high 80's low 90s so I ended up being a little red for the day. The following is a shot from race 6. The rest of the pictures are on www.rivinus.photoreflect.com which can also be reached from www.rivinus-photography.com
More pictures will come later. I seem to have misplaced the cable for Marlene's camera.
April 17, 2004
Stuff
I just wanted to get something up on the website. The presentation for the camera club went well. They have asked me to register and setup their website www.charlottecameraclub.com I have the domain and server up and running. I am waiting on Canaca to install ImageMagick on the server so I can get Movable Type running. I think MT will be good for the club members. Most of the members are not the biggest computer users so MT will allow them an easy way to upload images and write stories.
The camera club has been invited to provide photographers for this years Queen's Cup Steeplechase race in Mineral Springs this year. We have been given press passes to get into the restricted areas and it should be quite bit of fun next weekend. I'll save some pictures to post here.
April 15, 2004
Ribbon Winner
Sean is a lucky guy in some ways. His photography hobby is both something he loves and something he is very good at. For the last few months he has been going to the Charlotte Camera club. Yesterday he submitted a couple of pictures in their in-house contest and both got ribbons. It might not be a "big" thing but it is nice to be recognized by your peers.
Yesterday I hung a couple of the pictures he has taken of some Gerbera Daisies in simple clip frames. They look truly marvelous and very artistic.
Many of these pictures he posts in our photo gallery and others are in his photoblog.
April 11, 2004
Busy Days
It seems everyone in the blogging world has been busy this last month. I have noticed a definate decline in posting and I am included in that decline.
Last month I posted that my company had bought another company here in Charlotte. I have been working non-stop in the office since March 15th. The merger has not gone well. We have found that most of the owner operators from Star Freight don't seem to want to actually work. We had expected to get 40 drivers from the buyout and so far have ended up with about 12. That number changes daily. I have been working 12-15 hour days since we combined the companies on March 29th. Marlene has been a real trooper. I have been geting home between 7-10 most nights and going straight to bed. My day normally starts with me waking up between 4-5am. Funny, a few years ago I used to always sleep until noon. I have become a morning person over the last few years.
Easter weekend has been the first weekend I have had ANY time to do anything but work. I feel like I should be doing something more constructive this weekend, but I really needed the break.
Tomorrow I am giving a presentation to the local camera club on how to set up a website. They don't have internet access where I am giving the speech so I ended up installing webserer software on my laptop along with a working version of Movable Type. I used the directions Jennifer had put up at www.fortysoemthing.ca. Thank you to Jennifer for such a good article. It doesn't work exactly like the MT on my webserver. I didn't have the patience to get ImageMagick installed, so I don't get the thumbnailing feature, but it should work ok for this meeting.
April 08, 2004
April 03, 2004
Nothing New?
The last entry has been up for over a week so it's about time we post something. Sean is suffering from too-damn-busy-at-work syndrome and I am just suffering from a writer's block. Well that's my excuse and I am going with it.
So because it seems there is nothing going on around here I have decided to write about other people.
My good friend Arghi has made a momentous leap lately. She has finally made the move out on her own and further compounded this by moving from Toronto to Montreal. It's a big thing to be on your own in a new city but I know she will flourish. Montreal is an amazing city with so much to do and see --great nightlife, cool culture, and some of the best restaurants in the world.
Most importantly it has great shopping.
My friend Kim in Vancouver went back to university a few years ago to pursue a bachelor's degree in Education and is nearing the finish line. She is doing another practicum and I am sure the kids adore her.
My Dad who fell in January and has been incarcerated in a metal neck brace for the last six weeks was released last week and is now in a soft collar. Whew.
My sister Tilly's life has become consumed by my parents. Chauffering them to doctor's appointments and weekly shopping trips and playing nurse with my Dad who is a great patient with everyone except his daughters.
And speaking of my parents they are celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary on Easter Sunday. Can you imagine?!
I have a hard time envisioning myself as a grey-haired Oma in the year 2048 with Sean at my side talking about the good ole days...
Well and that's how it goes I guess one day at a time and the next thing you know things have actually happened in your life and it hasn't been so dull after all. Hard to believe on a quiet Saturday afternoon.