Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Shooting the McCain-Palin Rally...with a camera.
On Tuesday our high school received an invitation to attend the McCain-Palin rally in Hershey, PA's Giant Center. It was a neat experience. While I took over 300 photos at the event, here are a handful of some of the better shots:
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
A "Different" Photographic Experience
Each and every day I bring my camera to school. If someone were to ask why, I'd say that common reply of "you never know when that photographic moment will happen." Well, today happened to be one of those days.
Today we had missionaries from JAARS, an aviation missions organization associated with Wycliffe Bible Translators speaking in our Chapel. These people are known for their big entrance of landing their helicopter outside of the school on the day that they come to speak. Today when they came to speak, they also offered to take one of us in their helicopter to take some photos of the school and students from the air. The school chaplain heartily volunteered me, and so I grabbed my camera and headed out to the challenge.
We would be circling the school from about 1000 feet up at some points to get photos of the students forming the initials "HCS" for our school. Now, I had never before ridden in or even touched a helicopter before, so I was naturally kind of nervous. Of course, when the men then removed the door from my side of the helicopter so that I could get a more 'clear view', then things got interesting. Most of my experience for the next 15 minutes was from dangling on the edge of a tiny helicopter hundreds of feet above the Earth with only my seatbelt and God's mercy keeping me from falling to my death. I ended up taking about 200 photos as fast as my camera could fire them (gotta love 5fps on the 30D, right Dave?). Below are a few of the best ones.
(Here's a nerdy pose in front of the helicopter)
(just a quick shot from the cockpit at the controls)
(The students did their best to form the school initials for Hershey Christian School...not bad)
(This shot was taken from probably the highest point we flew that day, you can see a view of the school property looking Northwest)
Today we had missionaries from JAARS, an aviation missions organization associated with Wycliffe Bible Translators speaking in our Chapel. These people are known for their big entrance of landing their helicopter outside of the school on the day that they come to speak. Today when they came to speak, they also offered to take one of us in their helicopter to take some photos of the school and students from the air. The school chaplain heartily volunteered me, and so I grabbed my camera and headed out to the challenge.
We would be circling the school from about 1000 feet up at some points to get photos of the students forming the initials "HCS" for our school. Now, I had never before ridden in or even touched a helicopter before, so I was naturally kind of nervous. Of course, when the men then removed the door from my side of the helicopter so that I could get a more 'clear view', then things got interesting. Most of my experience for the next 15 minutes was from dangling on the edge of a tiny helicopter hundreds of feet above the Earth with only my seatbelt and God's mercy keeping me from falling to my death. I ended up taking about 200 photos as fast as my camera could fire them (gotta love 5fps on the 30D, right Dave?). Below are a few of the best ones.
(Here's a nerdy pose in front of the helicopter)
(just a quick shot from the cockpit at the controls)
(The students did their best to form the school initials for Hershey Christian School...not bad)
(This shot was taken from probably the highest point we flew that day, you can see a view of the school property looking Northwest)
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