Sunday

My saturday was intense. I’ve been working a lot of long days (mostly because I’m just awfully slow at editing video sometimes) and I spent my morning at swim meet preliminaries where my photos turned out awful. I mean just terrible. I had to leave at 1pm to shoot cardboard boat races in Hollywood, Fla. Very, very cute. I wish wish wish I could post the video because I had two little kids at the beginning that were so sweet but it hasn’t been posted yet. Finally because my swimming take in the morning was so poor I went back for the finals which turned out to be so, so, so much better! The light was nicer, I didn’t feel quite so clueless as what to shoot. These were my favorites from swimming and here is the link to the photo gallery for the paper.

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Here are a few from cardboard boat races . . . although having to shoot video at the same time I feel that the photos were really not that good:

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A while back I shot video of the Nova Dental Clinic, it’s huge and comprised of hundreds of students. I had fun with it and I’m so happy to see it online, I was almost sure it might not make it since I shot it two weeks prior. So here is the Nova Dental Clinic video and here are a couple of my favorite pics from that:

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Dental students have to keep teeth to practice on, this was one kid’s jar . . . pretty cool.

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This guy above is who I interviewed, absolute sweetheart and was pointing out the tooth that was being worked on.

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I’m a big fan of subway and I love that the dude that made my sandwich wanted to stress how crazy Florida was. He told me about a lady who put a knife in her sandwich and said I want my sandwich free, you’ve left your sandwich knife in my sandwich. Another lady that when he was mopping, ran over to the shop and stopped running, as he put out a safety sign (apparently suing is big out here). That brings me to one assignment, it was to photograph the founder of WhoCanISue.com and here is the story (minus the photo I shot . . . I don’t know why) so here is the pic:

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This is probably a four foot iguana kept at the school outside one of the classrooms. The grow out here to be huge because they have no natural predators after the age of one and are considered a menace. They dig holes for their burrows, eat other animals and occasionally bite people. I challenge you to find a state where you are less likely to be bit by a reptile than Florida.

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Sunday

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Another week down and it’s been fun. I shot several videos and photos this week and I’ve been able to edit all of them. I’ll try to include links.

Also I discovered something wonderful today called Pollo Tropical. Instead of fries you choose from fried yuca or fried plantains and sides of rice and beans . . . man it is awesome. I can’t believe I can get fast yuca, at home we get this maybe once or twice a year . . . a smart person would open one in Phoenix or Tucson.

Here are some more fans from last week’s Dolphins game . . . I am going to do a project on the fans, no doubt, they are what makes games interesting (at least to me).

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I also photographed a young volunteer that day who said his experiences were character building. Here he is waiting for someone to need to use a wheelchair.

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We also did a couple of interviews with pet owners who adopted Katrina pets. Here is the link and one of the videos . . . it is just a little too long and a little disorganized, but not bad for a photo/video assignment.

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Mirimar police are looking for a suspect in a triple homicide in a good neighborhood in the area. There are so many murders here it is ridiculous.

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Broward County K-9’s recieved protective vests. Here is the story and below is a photo that they didn’t use on the website:

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And in theme with the shoes here is the complete office of polished black boots.

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A couple of dancers with Dancing with the Stars gave a workshop. Fun times.

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There were 10,000 socks collected for the homeless and bagged up to be given to different local shelters:

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And today a father/teacher from Weston (filled with so many Colombians/Venezuelans I was floored) and here his daughter is hugging him when he arrives.

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And just for fun I took a screen shot with all my windows visible . . . this is really how I work:
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And tomorrow? Work, paperwork, doctor, alligator alley?, and hopefully this guy . . . excited.

Sunday

I love my family, portraits as I get ready to leave Arizona for Florida

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I tend to scare children with my camera, or at least I like to think it is the camera . . .

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