Happy Independence Day everyone. I thought I’d pull a frame from an earlier post that kind of caught my eye on a second look. This is a frame I shot out at Austin’s Pioneer Farms, a small village with buildings and re-enactors that appear to be out of 1800s Texas. I got sent out to shoot a Fourth of July celebration, but unfortunately there was a very small crowd due to looming rain. I wondered around and made a few features then focused on the several American flags near the village’s entrance. I opened up the aperture a bit and got darkened corners because I was using a Nikon DX (crop) lens on a Nikon FX (full-frame) body. The result kind of looks like I shot it with a Holga. This is more or less exactly as it came off the camera. I dodged the middle of the flag a bit in Photoshop, but otherwise it hasn’t been touched.
Austin American-Statesman
Tarrytown Fourth of July parade
A day on the prairie
Hall sentencing
Today I was asked to photograph reaction shots outside a courtroom for a sentencing appeal for Laura Hall, who received 10 years for tampering with evidence in the 2005 murder of Jennifer Cave (Full Story). Hall’s case backfired after she appealed an original five-year sentence and received 10 years instead. Sharon Sedwick, Jennifer Cave’s mother, spoke to the media outside the courtroom: