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This is a cancer thing, not heart related, but I'm killing time yet again at the office so I figured I'd share a little something.
The Relay for Life here has been going for about 6 years or so. They do it on the university's track, a 20 something hour walk, in shifts, with games and prices and "theme walks" and the like.
After dusk (they usually set it for about 10pm) they hold a luminaria ceremony. Candles are placed around the inside edge of the track, each candle bears the name of a person (or persons) that is either fighting a battle with cancer or has lost one. A few songs and speeches are made and then everything is lit up.
The deadline for photography at the newspaper is 10:30pm (sometimes earlier) and to my knowledge, no one has ever tried to shoot this part of the annual fund raiser because of that. I hussled to get everything else that needed to be done tonight so I could go shoot this. Unfortunately, it won't make the Sunday paper, I knew that going in. My hope is that maybe it will be useful next year.
Plus I was hoping stuff would come out nice for my portfolio.
This is just one of about half a dozen photos that worked out "ok" for me. I didn't try to get the girl's name, she looked like she didn't need to be bothered at that moment....
The Relay for Life here has been going for about 6 years or so. They do it on the university's track, a 20 something hour walk, in shifts, with games and prices and "theme walks" and the like.
After dusk (they usually set it for about 10pm) they hold a luminaria ceremony. Candles are placed around the inside edge of the track, each candle bears the name of a person (or persons) that is either fighting a battle with cancer or has lost one. A few songs and speeches are made and then everything is lit up.
The deadline for photography at the newspaper is 10:30pm (sometimes earlier) and to my knowledge, no one has ever tried to shoot this part of the annual fund raiser because of that. I hussled to get everything else that needed to be done tonight so I could go shoot this. Unfortunately, it won't make the Sunday paper, I knew that going in. My hope is that maybe it will be useful next year.
Plus I was hoping stuff would come out nice for my portfolio.
This is just one of about half a dozen photos that worked out "ok" for me. I didn't try to get the girl's name, she looked like she didn't need to be bothered at that moment....
