Who wants some track action???

Probably not you, but you gonna get it! On a day trip back to fairbury, i saw a track meet going on, and the car of my highschool journalism teacher. so, i decided to go shoot me some track. but, when i got there, i found out there were only 2 races left in the entire meet. still, got some panned action goin for me.



The guy in the coat was my old jr. high football coach, Coach Don Mahlman. ( I could be wrong with the spelling of his last name.) You would be hard pressed to find a harder worker or nicer person than him. As a football coach, he had an affinity for smashmouth football, and would only call 2 plays pretty much the entire game. 24 and 23 iso. for those who dont know football, it is a run off the guard with the running back. we would ask if we could try some other play to maybe make the defense think that we had more than 2 plays in our play book, and he would tell us that if we could not get that play to work, then we had no chance of getting other plays to work. We lost a lot of games.



I believe the internet term for this is "pwned." for those of you who do not know what that means, it means she failed, sorta. i dont know, i hate internet speak. downfall of the english language and what not.

Jess

My little brother rocks. if anyone says otherwise, i will cut them.

State Bball

Grandparents

late in updating

Husker baseball game, shot with a lens baby.


My Grandpa pushing my Grandma at the nursing home.

Avoca Quack Off

Ok, it seems that blogger hates me, as it has been giving me a lot of problems posting photos. Safari is not working to upload photos, and neither was Firefox, until I ran it in Rosetta. So, you can take that as a lame excuse for not posting in a while. Hrmm. Stupid robots.

But, anyway, i shot the Avoca Quack Off last weekend, and it was a bunch of fun. nothing like a bunch of drunk people yelling at ducks to get them to run forward. dude at the bottom was eating some rockey mountain oysters. I have to say i love small town events. seeing a community coming together, in this case to raise money for the fire department, is always a good thing.

By the way, this is post number 99. unless i can think of something else (not too likely) i will probably do a review/retrospective post for number 100. i've got most every thing planned out, so i think i'm set for that.

Clay Lomneth

I went and shot the Avoca Quack off this last weekend with Clay Lomneth, a very talented photographer and all around great guy. Afterward, we went and ate some food in Union, and found an old abandoned house that we went to go be nerdy in. For the Quack off, we had a shoot off, and the images will be posted soon.

The Killigans New Years Eve show

Some shots from the killigans show, as with the last post, audio slideshow to follow soon.




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bar closing

Closing of a bar after 3 years of business in south lincoln. the bar lost their lease and were told they had 2 weeks to close. audio slide show to follow soon.

Christmas

Check out this link for an unedited look at my christmas day, slamed together for one minute of crazy fun. the song is american money by yoko kanno.

http://gregblobaum.webng.com/xmass/

jess

mi hermano Jesse, snowboarding in my backyard at night. single strobe, set to the left.

winter wonderland

It was a rather cold and miserable night last night, but thankfully, area schools were canceled, which allowed me to go out feature hunting. and where better to go that a gigantic hill for sledders? I went up to arnold heights, a hill up in airpark that puts the pioneers park sledding hill to shame. it's a bit out of the way, so there are less people there, but it is a much larger hill. one problem i ran into was keeping my batteries warm, because they were dying quickly. darn cold. the 2 shots from the last post were taken at the same hill, only a few weeks back.

I really like this wider shot of the sledders, mostly for the girl at the bottom left. there was a big dip that made for a great jump, and after shooting tighter and closer with the 16-35, i decided to pull back and shoot wide and long with the 70-200. i do wish there were more people going down the hill in that frame, to clean up some of the dead space, but you take what you get.


here is the same bump, only close up. you can't go wrong with kids wiping out.


this is what greeted me this morning, a solid sheet of ice covering my car.

a little fun

sometimes i like to get artsy

star city holiday oh my god it is freezing parade

cold cold cold cold cold. shooting the (rather sad) parade saturday was not that fun. there were no marching bands, and if you have not figured it out yet, it was really cold there. but, i did get to play around with a fun little lens. i have always been surprised that the parade is at the start of december, and not closer to christmas. meh.

a little thanksgiving joy

happy thanksgiving to all. went back home to fairbury, and gorged myself of many foods. it was nice to see the family again, and it was nice to get my grandma sprung from the nursing home for a day to join us. my brothers and i spent some time playing with our grandpa's old train set, hence the lego sharks eating the car. we also talked with him about all of his train memorabilia. once i get my hands on some recording gear, i would like to interview him about pretty much his entire life, from growing up in boston, to WWII, to his time as an engineer on the railroad.

it seems i was wrong about the count towards post #100, about 7 posts were actually drafts, so this is post #90. but, still, close.

I hope all of you reading this gave thanks for things in your life. i know that every day i am thankful for my family. when things are looking their most bleak, my family is always there to bring me back up. i don't know what i would do without them.

fun with rubber cement

guess what, with rubber cement, even YOU can ignite ice cubes. and cause forest fires.

Friday night lights

Class A highschool football championship, Omaha central beats Millard north.

5 more posts till 100.

bloggin from class, volleyball style

i am really, really having trouble focusing in class today, so what better way to be a responsible student than to update my blog! During Class!!!

State volleyball!!! hooray! shot 2 games of the tourney on friday, back to back. Grand Island Central Catholic won quite handily. That is why they are happy. I was not so happy, because i had to wake up really early to drive to waverly to cover this game, which was at 930 in the morn. boo morning!


Heartland did not do as well. That is why they are sad. They lost in the first round, but at least did not get swept.


Now, looking around for features at the end of the Heartland game, i saw these guys. I am not saying this was a good photo, i am saying i just took this to illustrate a point. These guys thought they were hardcore with a little face paint. they thought they were awesome fans. well, guess what, you got nothin.


Here are some real fans, from Heartland. they dressed up as presents, and had other themes ready if Heartland won. Not only were they screaming the entire game, they were singing many songs. all memorized, including the theme from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, All that Jazz, and their ABC's.


This weekend... State Football!!!

Fairbury

In honor of Fairbury being in the news (the mayor was just booted from office) here is a snap from when i went back home a week ago. The town has decided to have a trick or treat event down on the town square. It helps the kids who live out in the country who don't have the same chances as the town kids to get some tasty candy. part of it was to keep kids safe, which i think is a bit reactionary. but, kudos to fairbury for putting on something that was a hit with the town.

by the way, i am closing in on 100 blogs posts, i think i have about 7 to go. im kickin around some ideas for a lead up, but if anyone has any, feel free to chime in.

a little spot news

Last night, i recieved a text from one Johnny Perez on how there was a fire right close to my house. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and there was minimal damage. not too often you can cover spot news basically right out of your door. It has been a while since i have shot any spot news, so it was fun to go out and cover something happening.