February 2007
Monthly Archive
Foxhunting: Multimedia
Posted by skywriter12 on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: sports, feature, Free Lance-Star
Foxhounds
Posted by skywriter12 on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: sports, Free Lance-Star, personal
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The Commonwealth Foxhounds, a traditional foxhunting club based near King George, celebrated it’s 25th Anniversary in 2006 on the centennial of organized foxhunting in Virginia. I spent some time with the club on their hunt, as well as when they train hounds and when they hang out together. Suffice to say both the hunt and the typical post hunt “breakfasts” all involve drinking copious amounts of alcohol. They know how to have a good time.
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I shot this late last year and it ran in the Free Lance-Star. We did like a multimedia piece for the story, and these are a selection of images from the larger project.
Bullriding
Posted by skywriter12 on 11 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: sports, feature, personal
Cody warms up by pretending to ride a bull backstage.
“I’m gonna conquer that bull”…
That bull is gonna toss ya…
You got eight seconds…
Get ‘er Done!…
Got the wind knocked out of him when he fell off the bull….
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Shot a few frames of bullriders at the URA Winter Rodeo in Columbia. I looked for ways of showing bullriding that went beyond the action shots of the rider on the bull, mid-ring. In fact, I wanted to avoid that shot altogether and break the rules a bit.
The whole bullriding shebang lasted less than fifteen minutes. I wish it went longer, as I could have spent all day shooting this!