Silhouettes...

Spent most of my day in Salado dashing between assignments and hanging out in the Salado Visitors Center sending photos back to the paper. Last assignment was at a Salado Eagles Baseball practice. After I shot my assignment I had a bit of time so I hung out shooting silhouettes at the batting cages. I think this meets my silhouette quota for the month.

January 2013 extras...

 January felt like one hell of a long month. All these photos I snapped while either looking for stand alone or when I got to an assignment really early. I really need to keep up the blog entries, if not for the sake of blogging and shooting at least for my folks who are constantly asking what I've been working on and asking why I haven't blogged in a long time. Alright well I hope you enjoy the snaps.(Above) As the sun sets over Temple a large storm system moved into the area.

 Audrey Hubbard the Nursing Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the McLane Children's Hospital plays a few hymns on the piano in the Hospital's chapel before Bonnie Layton and Wayne Woolsey get married.

Rain that collected on my passenger side window early in January as I wandered Temple looking for weather art.

 Cattle wait in pens behind the equine arena at the Bell County Expo Center, before being brought inside to test the skills of Cutting Horses and their riders.

Little Tracks...

I covered one of the many Model Train shows that takes place in Temple ever few months. This was the CentraMOD Inc. 's annual show at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic & Convention Center. The show had over 100 vendors as well as workshops for those interested in Model Rail Roading. What really caught my interest was the age range interested in model trains older folks, kids and everyone one in between.  I never really considered model trains as way for people to  create community, always pictured a lone dude sitting in his basement lit by a single light bulb, but now I can see that I was completely wrong about that. Its a pretty weird vibrant community.

East Temple

I really enjoyed working on a series with our former city reporter, Jessica Priest, about East Temple. And while the series ran in the Telegram about a week ago, I still feel like there are more stories to tell in this very forgotten part of the city. I desire to delve deeper into the narrative of this part of town through its people and history. You will definitely see more of this project here in future posts. 

Hiding from the camera...

I always get a kick out of people hiding from the camera when I'm out on assignment. While I was covering a Juneteenth Parade this morning I ran into these two kids on a street corner James (right) called me over to take his photo laughing and dancing while his friend Jakayla pulled her blanket over her face. I'm pretty sure I heard a few words being mumbled to James  as I hung out snapping frames about how he was going to get it later.

Random Images from the week

The China House, Temple, TX

Horses, Little River Academy, TX