the craftsman

David Moore leaves St. James Episcopal Church in Woodstock after completing a maintenance job on the church's organ that he built and installed in the late 1980s. Moore started working on organs in the late 1960s, when he was still in high school, and has been restoring, building and servicing organs ever since.

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squash - dartmouth vs. harvard

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first snow

i headed out of the newsroom today to go photograph a high school hockey game. i was thinking: "the nice warm days of soccer and american football are gone. winter's getting near," and as i opened the door i saw a big and thick curtain made of millions of white dots in front of me. it was freakin' snowing! and i really don't like snow. but hey, i'm in new england, i'm lucky i'm not swimming in several feet deep snow at this point in the year.
anyway, during one of the breaks i bought a hot coffee and stepped outside to warm up a bit (yes it was warmer outside than it was inside). a few feet away from me two little guys were trying to catch snowflakes in their mouths. i stood there looking at them for a few seconds and then i think i heard this voice in my head: "hey, genius, when are you gona start taking some pictures here?" i took a few quick frames before they started noticing me. and now i can't decide which one is the better one out of these three.
the kids names are Jorgen (wearing the grey hoodie) and Keenan Leuthauser, they're both 7, and they are twins.




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on a november afternoon in windsor vt.

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lobstah country

postcard from winsdsor vt.

katie barnes encouraged me to stop whenever i see a pretty picture and actually take it. new england is a nice huge photograph made of millions of pretty pictures. i see them everyday as i drive to and from assignments, but i usually save them on my organic memory card, my brain. today i decided to stop and snap. i parked on a funeral home's driveway and after a few minutes i left with some images of the kennedy pond in windsor on my sd memory card. it's not as good as katie's images, but if i keep stopping i might get better at it.


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portrait of a musician

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boston

old mayor, new mayor

Claremont Mayor Deborah Cutts, center, celebrates her re-election with other City Council candidates and supporters on Tuesday, October 3, seconds after hearing the official results of the Mayoral and City Council elections at the home of Bethany Yurek. At left, from top, are David Messier, Yurek and Kyle Messier. At right, from top, are Jeffrey Goff and and Victor Bergeron.

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hats

as a kid i wanted to be many things. a cowboy was one of them (yup, i've watched a lot of john wayne movies and such). i didn't really like cows, but i loved the hats. and the attitude. i ended up at a rodeo last summer, and guess what... i saw real cowboys. well, they were high schoolers but they took themselves seriously. and so did the adults that were there. and so did i. and loved their hats. and the light. and i just kept taking picture after picture.

bonfire

Ryan Stanley, 20, of White River Junction Vt. and his girlfriend, Jasmine Pelkey, 15, of South Royalton Vt., are lighted by the flames of a bonfire Tuesday, October 20, 2009 during Hartford High School’s Homecoming at Kilowatt Park in Wilder, Vt..


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golf

shot on October 10, at the end of the NHIAA Class 1 Team Golf Championship at the White Mountains Country Club in Ashland N.H..

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last summer

i wanted to post these two images for quite a while now. i took them in june at a gun show in kansas city, mo. in the first image darin raleigh cuddles with his wife as the sales slowed down during lunch hour. in the other one, oblivious to the powerful weapons around her, katie raliegh, 13, is more interested in a nintendo ds video game called littlest pets.

yellow jackets beat the highlanders

The Windsor bench bursts with joy in anticipation of the game winning goal scored by Megan O'Neill during the second 10-minute sudden-death overtime period on Thursday, October22, 2009, in Windsor Vt.. Players, beginning third from left are Aleigha Sykes, 11, Alex Morley, dressed in street clothes, who couldn't play because a concussion she suffered in the previous game, Amanda Ashline, 4, Janine Lens, 1, Paige Townsend, 18, and Lillee VanReeth, 5. Windsor won the play-off against Harwood 1-0, and will play against Springfield in the next game.

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marauders vs. raiders

Lebanon High School's Alexander Kivela, 24, knocks away a pass from Hanover High School receiver Daniel Gorman, 2, near the Lebanon end zone, on Saturday, September 19, 2009, in Hanover, N.H..Hanover won 35-20.

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whole lotta lamps

Ken Blaisdell paints a bamboo-leaf pattern on a lamp shade on September 10, at his shop in downtown White River Junction, Vt.. Blaisdell was working on a series of lamps that he has named the "brake lights" because he uses automotive brake rotors as lamp feet.


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kids and scarecrows

On August 25 I started my 4 month photo internship at the Valley News. I've been photographing almost every day since then, but I kept neglecting this blog. It's time to put an end to that, and today seems like a good day for it.

I took these two images at an annual event in Grantham NH where kids were invited to dress scare crows that will be displayed along Route 10.

The first image was published in the newspaper, the other one is an outtake that I like.

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Above: Hope Kuper, 4, of Grantham N.H. walks away from a row of scare crows after her mom had taken her photo with the scarecrow that she and her friend Olivia Simione, dressed. Hope said that the scare crow that she and her friend dressedwas named "Hart Pink Flower Girl." The annual scarecrow display starts next Thursday along Route 10 in Grantham. Hope and Olivia have dressed the short one on the far right.

concealed carry class

austin kelly, 24, of moberly, mo, fires his .44 caliber pistol on sunday inside the target masters shooting range in columbia, mo during the practical training part of a concealed carry course. austin believes that more people should go through the course and get their concealed carry permit because in that way they would help give a better name to the 2nd amendment.

shooting range

chris and rachel. he just obtained his concealed carry permit; she was shooting for the first time, under his supervision.

saturday at sunset

the edit

i did a bit of editing on the stuff that i've shot in st joseph and i came up with this. turn up the volume 'cause it comes with sound.

Civil War Re-enactment from catalin abagiu on Vimeo.

... and one in color

civil war re-enactment

a week ago in st. joseph, mo.

gentlemen's sport

beauty & the beast - mu interpretation

mu hosted the third annual beauty and the beast event last friday at the hearnes center here in columbia, mo. this beauty and the beast thing is an event during which the university of missouri women gymnastics team and the men wrestling team compete at the same time, inside the same arena, against teams from another university. this time it was central michigan university and the missouri athletes lost on their own turf. lame!
i went to shoot this event for fun, and to test a lens that i have never used before - the 200mm f/2 from nikon. a pretty darn good piece of glass i'd say, especially in dark places like the hearnes center.