Hanging from the Rafters!(not really, just leaning over a ledge)
One of my publications I shoot for was doing a story on the local community college and I was tasked to find shot of students hanging about, going to class etc. This was an exercise on thinking how to think about the angles. There really was no specific assignemnt--but as I was working the shoot you always want to look at a subject from a perspective other than standing height and horizontal--that is how we normally see the world.
For me, creative angles, use of light and timing is what can turn a mundane assignment into something a reader may actually stop and read. A fellow reporter (Tad Sooter, The Herald) captured a high angle shot last week of a huge bike rally, and it was a very creative and interesting to view--nice job Tad.
Today's collection is just about that--how can I use the light, the angles to present a different view of the world.
Best Regards,
Brad Camp
http://www.bradcampimages.com/
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POTD-Spartans Beach Rainier in Overtime.
The Bainbridge Spartans hosted a drama filled game Friday with Will DiIorio’s three-point shot with less than five seconds remaining gave the Spartan boys basketball team a 55-52 overtime win over Rainier Beach on Friday and moved the team into a tie for first place in the Metro League’s Mountain Division. Both teams have 10-3 league records with two games remaining.
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Olympic Gymnastics Center team competed at the Cascade Elite team challenge Saturday and Gymnast Vicky Camp (yes--proud dad alert) placed in the top 10 for all-around with a score of 32.35. The team took 4th overall with 9 teams participating.
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Picture This
May 2009
Learning to Fly
Gymnastics.
It is a sport participated in by a few and watched by many. For some, it is a lifestyle by choice. Gymnasts will spend at least 20 hours a week in practice perfecting tricks and learning to be safe while learning to fly, dance, balance and tumble.
For Kingston’s Sam Thompson, she had to wait just a little bit longer to compete. She is a Level 5 gymnast at Olympic Gymnastic Center and now, is probably the youngest competitor to qualify for a state berth in the USAG trials (USA Gymnastics).
Sam, known as ‘Little Sam’ stands at just over 36 inches, sports fire red hair and is full of energy. She started on this team at 6 years old and traveled to Las Vegas for competition in January. There, she competed at her first and last meet. That was it for her until a few weeks ago. The legal age for competition is 7 for Level 5 Washington gymnastics athletes. Not to be deterred, Sam practiced daily with the team, traveled to all the meets, did warm-ups with the team and finally in early April, she had her first competition at the Seattle Sectionals.
It was her first legal competition, and at one week past the legal age limit Sam hit the floor, flew the bars, scaled the beam, ran at full speed toward a stationary object and vaulted clean over it with no hesitation. Sam was the hit of the event. Hundreds of eyes watched the little flyer post high scores on all the apparatus, include one over 9.0.
In the end, as the qualifiers were called up, one after another. Lots of them were from the big schools in Seattle and Sam’s name was called up as a qualifier. Her look of surprise was only matched by the excitement of many parents and the gymnasium full of athletes.
Little Sam practiced hard with the team and will now join 9 others from her team and head to state on May 2nd to compete for a title. At barely seven years old, this locked Little Sam into the rolls as one of the youngest ever to qualify to a Level 5 USAG state meet.
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