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June 10, 2007: The last day of FanFair! I have been looking forward to this day since I knew I was covering it again this year. All I had to shoot today was an Emerson Drive party. It was fun, as the Emerson Drive guys are a lot of fun. They are the group I [...]
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June 9, 2007: Today was a busy day starting off covering the booths at the convention center. The booths are where the artists go to meet the fans. People stand on line for hours to get signatures. Covering this I look for fans who have a lot of signatures on some interesting thing, or are [...]
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June 8, 2007: Today I had two FanFair parties, Montgomery Gentry and Chris Young. They were both typical parties and I got what I could and got back to the house to process the images. Having this new super fast MacPro and Aperture is REALLY making this years load of images a breeze to process. [...]
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June 7, 2007: I started the day off covering a Leeann Rimes party downtown. I shot her performing and then with fans. It was a typical party, a lot of waiting to get just a few photos. After this I went to get Ashleigh, today is her birthday so I took her to the Mall [...]
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June 6, 2007: More CMA work. I covered three fan club parties today: Tracy Lawrence, LoneStar, and Dierks Bently. Tracy’s party was kind of fun, he and I spent a while just talking, and he was willing to set up a few photos quickly so that I could do my job and get on the [...]
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June 5, 2007: I started coverage of CMA Music Festival today with the Chely Wright party. I seem to always cover this party, it is not hard, but not much fun either. I usually shoot from upstairs with a long lens as that gives better angles than being right at the stage shooting up the [...]
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May 23, 2007: Today was the Fifth Grade Promotion. Ashleigh got the Presidents award for making an A average over the year. What an improvement from last year! She is doing so much better in school this past year. I was surprised that she wanted to stay at school after the lunch. They said the [...]
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May 21, 2007: This morning I headed over to Winstead Hill to make some photos. I am going to try over the next several months to make photos that detail the battle of Franklin. Winstead Hill was the point where General John Bell Hood watched the slaughter of his Army of Tennessee. This was the [...]
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May 18, 2007: This evening I took Rachel to a birthday Party. While she was at the party I went to an office building in the Cool Springs area and made photos of it. This building has a lot of neat angles, glass walls and makes for interesting photos. I spent about 45 minutes there [...]
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May 17, 2007: Today I went downtown to make some photos for stock photo purposes. I concentrated mostly around the Ryman and the Schermerhorn . I made quite a few nice images. When working on something like this I try to look for angles that are different that what you expect to see. One photo [...]