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The interns were sent out to scrounge up some local weather art for the front page yesterday, which also happened to be my first day on the job. I shot a number of different situations, but this one wound up being the best of the series. The man pictured is prepping a new baseball field for use in the fall. The grass isn’t mature enough yet for summer use, according to the man in charge at the local Parks and Recreations Department. 

Anthony Bezona, of Bellingham, cuts the turf on the new baseball field at Squalicum Creek Park in the afternoon sun Monday.

Some minor kinks have been worked out, but it looks like I’m back in business. As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t updated in a while. Okay, a long while. But that’s okay because I should have lots of goodies to be posting regularly over the summer. I begin my internship at the Bellingham Herald on the 30th (at least I think it’s the 30th…), so keep your eyes open for new stills and video.

I recently shot my first freelance assignment here in my home state of Washington. City University hired me to film their commencement ceremony at Key Arena. PR stuff isn’t really my bag, but it pays the bills.

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Some photos I took today during day five of the Missouri Photo Workshop.

Suzie Lafftery speaks with the fireman who hoisted her up in the ladder truck for a picture of the courthouse, shown between them. Lafftery was attempting to reproduce a photograph taken in 1963 during the last Missouri Photo Workshop to be held in Chillicothe, Mo.

No caption info yet, other than this is a man who is receiving a print of a photograph of himself taken at MPW in 1963.

As the official photo documentarian for the 59th annual Missouri Photo Workshop, I was assigned to get a “picture of Chillicothe”  as my first duty. So I set out to get a vignette of life and ran into Loraine Ricehouse, who was having her house painted on Monday.

Loraine Ricehouse, of Chillicothe, supervises Bruce O’Dell, of Breckenridge, and his crew as they paint the trim on her garage Monday afternoon. Ricehouse, 83, won Chillicothe’s Retired Senior Volunteer Person award this year after 22 years of volunteering to teach first graders at the school directly across the street. “As long as I can walk over there and get up the stairs, I’ll be doing it,” she said. Ricehouse also stays sharp by completing crossword puzzles during the rest of the week.

Ricehouse describes herself as a traditional woman with traditional values. “I’m kind of old fashioned,” she said. “I’m probably the only woman in town who still wears an apron.”

Ricehouse picked these up from the street in front of the school and promptly disposed of them.