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Todd Spoth — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:22:30 +0000

The past few days have been decent I suppose. I’ve done a number of high school sporting events lately and a ton of other stuff as well. Last night I was up for the better (and worst) part of the night monitoring the situation with Hurricane Ike and Houston from here in Baltimore. How amazing is this Internet we have? I was able to simultaneously stream all 4 major Houston news outlets’ coverage in real time throughout the night. Things got really hairy down there and there was a lot of devastation and damage done, but my home in Clear Lake was spared and did not even lose power. On the flip-side, I was born on Galveston Island so it was pretty tough seeing all of the destruction out there. A lot of childhood memories destroyed. I hope everything gets worked out for them soon. My journalistic side really wanted to be out there in the middle of everything making images, but things don’t always work out that way. Instead, today, I photographed a neighborhood ice cream party and some soccer. I went into the first assignment picturing tons of kids with ice cream, but I was disappointed to find only a few people there. After spending some time with the families and people at the event I began to understand that I shouldn’t let the feeling of disappointment creep until before I step foot into the assignment. The people in this community and most that I have met out here are all so great. They offered me drinks, food, TV, ice cream, and just about everything else under the sun and their excuse was, “we are mothers, we make sure you’re taken care of.” Good stuff. The above image is from a muddy soccer game I photographed yesterday evening. I think I’ve been consistent in the past few days, making images that are solid and good, everyday work, but I really have yet to get anything super stellar that I really feel solid about. I need to get out and exercise my personal vision more. Maybe the Colorpack will hold the answer? Who knows.

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