"An Air Academy Kadet leads a group of runners up a steep and mud covered portion of the course during the Kadet Invitational cross country meet at Air Academy High School in Colorado Springs Friday, Sept. 12, 2008." The Gazette, Justin Edmonds
It started raining last night at 6pm and didn't let up until after one this afternoon. At first I wasn't so thrilled about the rain because expensive camera gear and water don't mix too well. My didn't appear to get any better when I went to my first assignment at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Sarah you'll be proud of me, I shot Lucky the elephant painting. It ended up being super lame because the only people there were the reporter, video guy from one of the news stations, three zoo keepers, myself and of course the elephant. I don't care if the elephant can do a backflip, anything that happens inside a dark, smelly cage with a few onlookers isn't a story if you ask me.
After that I drove the North side of the springs to cover a manhunt for a suspected kidnapper who took a woman from Taos, N.M. Thursday evening. THe woman got away but the suspect was still on the loose. I arrived on the scene to three SWAT members with guns drawn and a K-9. After two hours or so and a few images later the search was called off and I went back to the office. I moved two images and then drove all the way back to the North side for prep cross country at Air Academy HS.
I didn't quite know what to expect with this sport since I've never shot it before but I really had a great time. The rain and poor weather made for some great images. I wanted to show the grittiness of the sport so I asked around and found a mud covered hill near the end of the course that the runners would have to contend with. The light was really flat so I decided to throw an SB-800 off to the side with a warming gel to add some edge to the runners. I was really hoping for a huge crash as they slipped trying to run up the mud covered hill but they all managed it pretty well.
The results sheet wasn't even close to being done by the time I left so I wasn't able to identify any of the runners, I'll have to do that tomorrow when I do my second edit. Luckly for me Mark told me that Air Academy senior Allie McLaughlin would most likely win the race, she did so in course record time, so I was able to get an image of her and moved that when I got back to the office.
I have an assignment on a girl scout's final project in the morning and the CC football in the afternoon before heading down to Denver for the weekend. I'm technically off on Sunday but in fact I'll be assisting Jay Drowns for the Sporting News at the Broncos home opener versus San Diego.
-JCE
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