mizzou vs. western illinois

road trip

another post with images that i shot for fun. i'm busy writing papers right now, but that'll be over soon. meanwhile, i try to snap here and there whenever i get a chance. it's a great cure for my congested brain.

tigers vs panthers

11/15/08 mcnally's

nsm rally in jeff city

it was way too cold, and these guys seemed to be way too angry.

b.h.o.

yeah, i know, lame and late, and probably uninteresting. whatever. i liked it when i passed by, so i snapped. it was actually taken on the election night, an hour or two before the announcement.

stjpd

i spent the last weekend with the policemen from st james, mo. i was allowed to go with them on patrols, but wasn't allowed to photograph the people that they would arrest, fine etc. i found it quite frustrating sometimes, but i understand why they asked me that. besides that, i've learned a lot about the work of an american policeman in a small town. for example, there's no animal police in st. james, so they have to deal with stray dogs, but they also keep and eye on the traffic, deal with domestic violence situations or drugs. i got along very well with all the policemen there and i was surprised to notice that even though most of the time they spend on the job they get to see the dark side of our world, they're not jaded at all. i might sound naive on this one, but this is what i felt after talking to them.
it's going to be hard to put together a story from what i have right now, but i knew from the beginning that my focus wouldn't be just one of the six policemen that work there, but the whole department. i will try to go back there at some point and take some more images.
these are a few shots that i've selected for the blog.

85 mm hook f/1.8

hook, john hook. shot with a 50 mm f/1.4 through a 85 mm f/1.8. such a dork!

st. james mo - the sequel

i'm back in st. james. this time i came here with my class mates from the picture story class. we will try to find and photograph some more stories here. today i just went out for a couple of hours to take a look around and shoot some test frames.

workshop fatigue

bogdan had a crazy schedule and some serious challenges to put up with during the last week and a half. a long flight from bucharest to st. louis, and then a 2 hour drive from there to columbia. then some busy days and then mpw. this last one usually brings well rested people on the verge of exhaustion. i'm glad and proud that he pulled it through great so far.

mpw 60

missouri photo workshop is back, and i'm part of it again! this time in st. james, mo, and not as a participant but as a crew member. my job here is to document the workshop itself. in other words i am the workshop photographer, which is kind of awkward because everybody else here is a photographer. among these people there are three friends of mine: andrei, bogdan, and calin. you can see the first two below.

electricity addiction

i was on my photo editing shift at the columbia missourian this afternoon when the lights, computers and all the "electrivore" devices inside there stopped working all of a sudden. power outage. immediately several people around me pulled out their cell phones and started texting, calling or using them as flashlights. we're soooo dependent on electricity powered tools! some people, went out to grab a bite. i grabbed a camera, powered by a battery of course, and snapped a few shots. then i went to grab a bite.

steam engine festival_people

steam engine festival_engines