And then?

Little known fact #422:  Photographers are normally camera shy.

Paralympian and Cerebral Palsy sufferer Jayme Paris with students from Calvary Chapel Primary School, ready to play a ball game that allows players to experience vision deprivation.

Warwick Eickenloff's father Leonard and grandfather William served in 20th century conflicts, and his son Peter is currently serving in the Royal Australian Navy.

 

Rebecca Whitehall, Keith Mashman and Gayle Adams are concerned about the pollution levels of the Cooks River and carry out tests on water samples. A glass of Cooks River water shows discolouration and foreign bodies.

Woodbine author Jessica Cartwright has written and self-published a vampire novel.

Art has been in Orangeville's Gary Baker's family for generations, and this year he is exhibiting at the Camden Art Prize.

Jakob Edwards (standing) is a state and national judo representative.

Daniel Aiello (L) and Matthew Adams are law and economics students, and create applications for Apple iPhones.

Currently based at the Burwood Fire Station, Station Officer Glenn Brown has been in the fire service for 25 years.

Campbell Bell, who is vision impaired, plays the saxophone and has received one of Vision Australia's Further Education Bursary Awards to complete his degree.

All images copyright 2011 Cumberland Newspaper Group.  Contact me for further details.

Follow my blog with bloglovin

A further scattering of photographs...

So - here are a few more jobs I've found myself on over the past few weeks.  And after my last recent upload, I've included brief captions to explain context.

Award nominated poet.

Successful students lift school rankings.

Sports clubs sponsors achievement awards.

Arthritis sufferer aims to assist.

Good golly it's Greek movie mania!

Election tally tension.

Retiring MP leaves seat open for contest.

School students hitting the right note.

Teen swimmer blows Thorpedo out of the water.

Colourful cultural costumes.

Seng choi bau.

Tick tock - time for a tattoo.

He's seen better days.

Stags outside the strip club.

Political promises for Panania.

Shy swimmer.

Pancakes and fresh berries.

Vietnam War memorial unveiling.

LIE! DOWN!

 Hound in the pound.

League star keeps hair in close shave.

Mayor gets jumped at sports centre.

Once again - the copyright for all images in the blog entry belong to Cumberland Courier Newspapers.

Hit me up if you're interested in lighting diagrams or further details for each of the images.

Fishnets and feistiness.

I like to head to jobs with a bit of foresight and planning if possible. It makes it easier to hit the ground running if you have an idea about composition, possible lighting set-up - heck, having an idea about the final outcome helps.

But sometimes, when I head to a job - it's all about flexibility. Thinking on your feet. Adapting to the situation to achieve the final objective. Or, as another PJ I used to work with used to admit, it's about keeping a deadpan expression in front of the subject while buggerbuggerbuggerbuggerbuggerbuggerbugger ricochets around the inside of your head.

Recently I was tasked to photograph a number of roller derby - um, gladiators? Warriors? Contestants?
Luckily enough it was like taking the pieces of a jigsaw out of the box, throwing up into the air, and having the finished solution land on the table in front of you. Framed.

So - below are some of the photos...

Members of the South West Sydney Rockets

'Dolly Death'

'Lady Gag-Her'

'Madam Dirty-Boots'

'Lethal Ling'

'De-Nominator'

'Ann O'War'

'Natomic Bomb'

'Dita Von Bruiser'

All images copyright of and courtesy of Cumberland Courier Newspapers.

TECH:  There's a small soft box on a SB-900 (1/1, 24mm) high and camera right.  There's a naked SB-800 (1/4, 35mm) to the rear and to the left of the subjects.  The camera was a Nikon D3, with a 24-70 f2.8, set at 200ISO, 1/100sec at f10.  The day was overcast and I had had muesli and pineapple slices for breakfast, with a glass of blackcurrent juice.

It's been a while. Again.

Yep it's been a while.  So, instead of waffling on, I thought I'd post some of the images I've been capturing over the past (mumble-cough-mumble) months.
But before you check out the images (which are all provided courtesy of Cumberland Courier Newspapers), I'd like to pay my respects to Christchurch.  Last Tuesday it was struck by a huge earthquake.  It's killed at least 150 people, and the count is still climbing.  It's levelled hundreds of builings and rendered hundreds if not thousands more uninhabitable.  It's affected people in the city, the region, the country and all across the world.  I lived there for a for a few years and was only back there for a weekend visit a few weeks ago.  It was - and deep down still is - a beautiful, if somewhat parochial city, and I'm amazed by the stories of heroism and survival that are making out of the ruins.

Ake ake kia kaha, Otautahi.

BTW - my website (http://www.chrismckeen.com.au/) is down indefinitely, so I'll be posting here in the short term future.

Chris