Meadville Tribune Photo By: Harmony Motter
The District 10 Class A Cochranton Cardinals Girls Softball team won their game against the Union City Bears Tuesday evening. I liked this shot that I snapped after the game was over and the girls were celebrating their win together.
Meadville Tribune Photo By: Harmony Motter
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The Allegro Dance Arts Advanced Intermediate Tumbling class rehearses for their upcoming recital. The routine is choreographed by Jenna Williams. Allegro Dance Arts will present "Disney Princesses and Disney Dreams" at Allegheny College, Shafer Auditorium. Performances are Friday May 27 at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $8 and are available online at www.allegrodancearts.com
Meadville Tribune Photo By: Harmony Motter A few years back Harmony Motter and I had two hundred feet of film and an idea. Lets each take 100 feet--roughly 12-14 rolls of film--and have fun shooting it. When we're done we'll each make 10 prints and find a small venue and have a show. That was a blast. Last year we were asked if we'd jury a new photo show for the Meadville Council on the Arts and the idea was that we would have a show along with the juried show. We had been discussing having another show somewhere, and though this didn't exactly fit that bill, we wanted to do this anyway. We love photography and want to promote it whenever we can. So on June 3rd we will have our second show opening along with the talented photographers whose work we were impressed by and included in the exhibition. The council wanted to change the concept of the 'Local Color' contest they held each year and this is the first of what they hope is a growing show each year. They just released the posters and more information will follow.
Meet Riley! He is a super friendly guy! He is a male Cockatiel that I recently adopted. We don't know how old he is. But, we do know that he is very social and loves to have his head rubbed. He would rather be out walking around the apartment than in his house playing with his bird toys. I am certain that he will grow to know John Lennon and the Beatles as any respectable young lad should. I am currently working on teaching him Beatle's songs. The first on the list is 'Here comes the sun.' He enjoys watching television as well. The other day he hung out with me and watched Law and Order.
Photo By: Harmony Motter If you're going to piss off a tiger, I guess its best to do it at a zoo and from the other side of the enclosure. We went to the Erie zoo today and we got to see the tiger up pretty close. He was just sitting their in some cool mud right near the glass. I took a few shots and then decided to get as close as I could to the glass and got down at eye level. The tiger didn't seem to care much for my shenanigans. I was wearing a pretty bright orange shirt too and wasn't sure if that didn't please him. I sorta felt bad that I disturbed him(and at this point I should say--I'm not sure it is a him or a her. In any event, i think if I were not protected by the good zoo enclosure that I would be in the form of tiger burps tonight. Below is a Jaguar, I saw the cat pacing back and forth and the sign and thought i might be able to make the picture below, a sort of optical illusion. Photographs by Richard Sayer.
A couple years ago when we were thinking about starting our photography business I began shooting a lot of pictures for practice. I had met some local folks who wanted to have their photos taken and build portfolios. I asked them a lot of questions and they showed me the work that already had in their portfolios. One of the models, Janae, had these photos from inside her apartment where she hung some records on the wall. I really liked the look. Last night I photographed Janae in front of a wall of records I put together in our studio. I joked with her that I stole her idea. Though it is quite different than the wall she had(I've been putting these up and taking them down and rearranging them now for two weeks looking for the right design) I really like the shapes it makes and I'm working out how to affectively light them--they are quite reflective and that can be problematic. In shooting tonight I decided to try a zooming affect and this ultimately produced some of the most interesting images. I tried several long exposures--some zooming some not --some with a flash--some without. I think this might work really well to give some seniors something a little different in their book to choose from. We'll see--it will at least be something to offer. SayerMotter Photographs by Richard Sayer.
A grizzled old man sys behind a desk, a stub of a cigar clenched between his teeth. He is going over the wires, the daily newspapers, his reporters daily assignment lists. His eyes deepen in his head. Its a slow news day! He bellows out into the newsroom, his voice echoes off the shoulder height dividers in which the desks and 'offices' of the reporters are contained, the voice meanders all the way across the room to the far side where all the lights are turned off and the windows are covered up to the photographer on duty. "I need a weather feature for A1!' Weather features used to be a staple in newspapers. It was a chance for photographers to go out and find a photograph, find some little slice of life moment or story of people going about their lives in whatever the weather was during the day. Not always 'news' - yet it did document the day, so it was, in a sense news. Of course extreme weather does become more news worthy. And today, not many editors are clenching cigars between their teeth, corporate structures and harassment lawsuits have made them slightly less grizzled and we're seldom ever sent out looking for weather features anymore. (though we're still on the other side of the room with the lights off and windows covered up!) This spring has been wet, very wet. So if I'm sent to cover a ball game and it gets called or delayed because of rain or lightning, it is news. I took this picture last week when the umpires called the game due to a flash of lightning spotted in the sky. The rule is they have to allow a certain amount of time to pass from the last strike noticed before they can allow the players back on the field. I liked this shot because it showed the umpire looking up and the athletic director checking his phone for a forecast. The funny thing was, I was on a limited schedule this particular day and when they did decide to start up again I had to go. And the real funny thing was, when lightning was spotted it wasn't raining, but when they began playing again it was raining pretty steady. I didn't mind having to leave early, but my action shots weren't what I would normally hope for. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.
Oh and yesterday's post, thanks for all the thoughts...yes it was that the girl's belly was showing and at least two people told me that I need to be more sensitive to the way I depict a young girl's body and that, according to the folks who came to me with this, that that is all the girl would see, she wouldn't see her determination or spirit. I'm listening.... This picture, strangely enough became a somewhat controversial picture recently after it appeared in the newspaper. Without going into details at this point--what do you see in this picture? The headline explained that the team won the game. So....what does this picture represent? Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.
Yesterday I photographed a dress rehearsal for Kristine's School of Dance's upcoming annual dance recital. These little ballerinas are from the the pre-school ballet class and I just thought that they were so darn cute. I always enjoy having assignments like this one, because I took 11 years of tap and ballet classes when I was younger. So I will give you this! Below is a photo of me as a tiny dancer, circa 1984. I was in first grade and just loved to tap dance.
Meadville Tribune Photo By: Harmony Motter Ever wonder what your reflection does once you move away from the mirror? It can make for good stories if you let your mind go there...but the physics of it all is that your reflection simply ceases to exist. I like reflections(if you couldn't tell from my countless posts using them) and I find them useful to me to see angles for photos that I couldn't get with out the mirrored image. Last Friday I had to photograph a graduation/dinner at a country club style restaurant. And I had limited time. So as I was trying to find pictures to tell the story with difficult lighting and separation between presenters and audience I began to look at the possibility of silhouettes. This wasn't working as a story telling way, but I found myself making several frames. This is a picture of the main guest speaker John Stansfield as he gave his speech. He is reflected in a mirror that was behind hime. Why I chose the mirror instead of just his silhouette was simply based on the angle of the background, the mirrored image was a brighter background. My vantage point placed the outside trees behind him, the angle in the mirror went more into the sky and waters of the lake. Again, this wasn't the picture for the story, but it was fun to make. And its a little more visually interesting than a standard podium shot Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.
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