the trip home, and more

 Posted by on August 18, 2008 at 12:05 am
Aug 182008
 

i finally got some bat shots from the Congress Avenue “bat bridge”


the bats were kind, but the mosquitos were not
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beautiful view of Lake Travis from The Oasis restaurant, where the menu outside was enticingly cheap and the menu at the table was mysteriously not

i caught Rudy, Statesman staff photographer, during an Olympic moment in Downtown Austin before i left Austin. all in a day’s work of a newspaper photojournalist

the rain outside Lubbock tried to git me

whereas this cat barely gave me a nod
The Heartland

finally, i know i’m back in Albuquerque when i see this awesome sight (well, just a sheep in a truck) at an unnamed store by my mom’s house in the South Valley

shot of a Statesman staff photographer waiting for Colt McCoy

 Posted by on August 7, 2008 at 10:43 am
Aug 072008
 
just had to drop this photo of a Statesman staff photographer…going on the staff wall here.
i went along to assist him on the shoot, and we had some time to play a bit with the lights and the props. 

8/07/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN;  A staff photographer wields a prop at a photo shoot at the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, home of the Longhorns.

work from Aug.2…fire (aftermath) and feature

 Posted by on August 4, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Aug 042008
 
the Vista Ridge Apartments on South Mays in Round Rock had their second fire this week Friday. here are photos from when i went out Saturday morning. 
i also photo’d a pack of wild dogs on someone’s property for a different assignment. it”s a long story, but the result of that day of chasing, sneaking and praying for the ability to be invisible is that i’m now ready for Nature Channel work :)
also, i’m posting a couple feature photos that ran inside the metro section.

8/02/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN;  The second fire of the week swept through the Vista Ridge Apartments on South Mays Street in Round Rock late Friday. Benny McRae walks past the back of the apartment complex Saturday.  His son, Drew Ford, lived in the unit bordering the damaged apartment behind McRae. Ford was acquainted with the man whose apartment burned earlier that week, according to McRae.

8/02/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN;  The second fire of the week swept through the Vista Ridge Apartments on South Mays Street in Round Rock late Friday. Battalion Chief Shane Glaiser with the Round Rock fire department talks with Cassandra, who declined to give her last name, and who was with her two daughters and grandson, about the damage caused during the fire to her fiancé’s apartment.


8/02/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; The Angels played the Cubs at a little league game Saturday at the YMCA baseball field at East Old Bowman Road and North Mays Street in Round Rock. Liz Dominguez gets her granddaughter Aaliyah Barron, 2, to drink water during the game while Aaliyah’s father, Anthony, provides cover from the scorching sun.

8/02/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; The Angels played the Cubs at a little league game Saturday at the YMCA baseball field at East Old Bowman Road and North Mays Street in Round Rock. Leighsa Dominguez, 8, covers her first-base position well as she fields a grounder that takes a big hop to make the out.

quick update on 5 clips i’m sending in for my scholarship -

 Posted by on August 2, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Aug 022008
 
i’m sending these 5 clips in to fulfill my requirements for the Chips Quinn scholarship. 
there are better examples i did this summer for the news stuff, but i was only able to access the last month of PDF’s when i did this at night, so i went by the dates for the hardcopy clips i had. overall, i’m happy with it.

the above cover is my photo, obviously

the two centerpiece features are from me on this page above
the centerpiece above is mine, and the smaller secondary (unfortunately)
this fun feature centerpiece above is me too

on this one above, the centerpiece is me
thats it. i’ll post some more photos soon. i got the next couple of days off, which is great, because i need ALL that time to start packing and cleaning…LAST DAY IS THIS FRIDAY! Aug. 8.

quick update, of recent photos…. no longer a stranger to portable strobes-

 Posted by on July 16, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Jul 162008
 

right off the bat- here’s my first attempt at outdoor studio strobes. even  just having access to one light helped immensely, and enabled results i could not have had otherwise.

i’ve used the Canon flashes before, and it’s usually fine, but the standard staffer kit that Kelly so graciously let me use (gracias) worked MUCH better. granted, it’s bulkier and needs more power, but i honsestly think it took me shorter to set up than it would have taken me to mess around with the infrared receiver on the Canon flashes not being consistent. and the power of the lights enable some nice options.
still need to work on the occasional big reflection in glasses, but overall, technically had a good time of it.

looking for a weather feature…

 Posted by on July 14, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Jul 142008
 



heres what i got. didn’t like the crop at first in the photo of the little kid (the full-frame had his grandpa holding him up at the fountain), but like it now. still, for me the photo was also about the grandpa in it, and his taking his grandkids to the river. one of those things where being present made a difference. maybe i could have captured that better, but anyway, heres the photo, and another option for that feature (which i’m glad they didn’t use — seem a little awkward.

this music festival was, sadly, a flop-

 Posted by on July 14, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Jul 142008
 

i felt horrible for the bands involved. they were out there al day, and there couldn’t have been more than 100 people total in attendance, for the day, for the festival which went from 10 or 11 in the morning to 9 p. m.

this photo kind of summed up the experience — not because the bands were bad, but because there was a lack of energy due to low attendance.

7/05/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; The ‘Born on the 5th of July’ EXIT Music Fest featured four stages of music at Waterloo Park in Austin on Saturday. Lorin Rhyne rest on her mother, Carey, between sets at the festival. They set up at the ‘Shut Up and Sing’ stage, near the drum stage. ‘Jingle,’ a miniature longhair daschund, rests at their feet. 

SHAME ON ME! no fireworks photos yet — here they are

 Posted by on July 14, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Jul 142008
 

first time shooting fireworks, and it was actually fun. the fun part was actually looking at the results, because you never know with long exposures (chances of parts of frame burning out, lots of dead pixels, ets.). thanks to Rudy G for a few quick pointers on shooting them.

we almost had a Michael Jackson scenario with a pyrotechnician here (just dated myself)
and heres some from the rest of the day:

‘Flag of Honor:’ an airport-stopping event (photos from 7/03)

 Posted by on July 8, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Jul 082008
 



this was a strange one. it was by far the most orchestrated event i have photographed involving police in an airport. obviously. the City of Lakeway PD earned the honor of flying the flag, which was on the Texas captiol  during the 911  terrorist attacks, by raising money to aid injured and disabled veterans from the Middle East.

this was interesting to shoot, with all the media around. even the statesman’s own Rudy Gonzalez was ther, shooting video. he did a great job, especially considering it was his first story attempt.
keep final cuttin’
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