"Ella Martin, 5, watches her step as she walks over a rock on Coyote Run trail ahead of her grandfather Ed Barrett as the two along with sister Amber, not pictured, enjoy a nature walk at Cheyenne Mountain State Park in Colorado Springs, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008."
JUSTIN EDMONDS, THE GAZETTE
Today was my next to last day at The Gazette and lucky enough for me I had the chance to be outside and enjoy the warm 50+ degree weather on an assignment covering a nature walk at a local state park. There wasn't as much nature as the assignment suggested so I struggled for a bit trying to make a picture of people walking along a trail. There wasn't any interesting vegetation or animals to see so I really had to work this one into the ground.
These are the types of assignments that have taught me the most about how I shoot and where I need to improve. I think the most important aspect of being a photojournalist is turning the mundane and straightforward assignments into visual pieces of information for the reader to draw upon. Most of the time the story provides the reader with an idea of the accounts of the event but as photojournalists it is our job to go a step further. I live and shoot with the thought of a quote that I once heard somewhere, "show those who weren't there what happened but also show those who were there something that they didn't already see."
One day left.
-JCE
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