Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

Sunday, July 10, 2016

A Piece of Americana

Our world has had more painful moments to contend with lately.  And there is a lot more that we generally don’t know about because it hasn’t come to the national stage yet but just as painful.  My family and I have been on vacation for the last two weeks though and we still made the best of it.  There was no comfort in reading about Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas.  But even here in Florida, we heard about the attempted child abduction back in Victorville.  We learned about the 3 murders, including the 9-year-old boy, in San Bernardino too.  We live, work and go to school in the high desert.  Those things (and more I’m sure that did not hit the national stage) happened while we were gone but we’re heading back today.  We are in Orlando: Pulse Night Club.  We are from the Inland Empire: San Bernardino mass shooting.  Just the same, we earned a vacation and a respite from all of this pain.  This image is a parting shot of our last outing yesterday – the crowd is just random folks.  We barely made it back to the car before the downpour.  We had a lot of fun these last two weeks but the heat was a challenge.  It’s very humid here.  Truth be told, we had a good vacation but it’s time to go home.


Friday, January 11, 2013

National Orange Show Quarter Midget Racing


“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”
-- M. Grundler

Here is a sample another sample of my work done in my documentary photography class.  We had to document this event at the National Orange Show grounds in San Bernardino.  This event was Quarter Midget Racing.  That’s kids racing in cars around a track – like little league for NASCAR.  This was awesome (I even thought about doing it with my kids).  I shot it with my handy Canon PowerShot S5 IS and my Ricoh KR-5 superII 35mm film cameras.  This time the film was loaded correctly (see previous post for explanation).  I’m only showing the digital shots here though as I have yet to scan my film.  These kids were great.  Enjoy.