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Womanless Beauty Pageant

I went to the Orange County Fair the other day to shoot a feature on the annual womanless beauty pageant. Rednecks country boys in drag, essentially. It was pretty funny, the guys were good sports but the light was terrible. And because it was 1000 degrees with 110% humidity I wanted to travel light, so I just slung two cameras with two zooms over my shoulders and was off. Stupidly, I left the strobe in the car and instead of going to get it, I tried to make do with the D300′s ISO capability. It wasn’t too bad, if you don’t mind a little digital noise.

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Orange County Fair

TJ Williams, 15, of Orange, sits with his cow Nellie in one of the 4-H tents at the Orange County Fair in Montpelier Station, VA, on July 22, 2010.

NCAA Football Recruiting

I shot a portrait of Tim Scott, a football player from Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, to illustrate a story about college football recruiting. In retrospect, there were a few technical details I should have addressed. In particular, I think I should have hit the front of the box with a little  light as well as the background to minimize that shadow a bit.

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Colonial Forge rising senior Tim Scott, holding a box of his recruitment letters, photographed at his home in Stafford, VA, on July 21, 2010 (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)


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