Breaking news... Obama comes to town and I have no internet!

Alright so I'm going to do quite a bit of recapping. Saturday was my birthday and I turned 18. I went to go get a haircut from a barber and it was the first barber cut I have ever gotten that I liked afterwards. My photographer friend picked me up from my house and we went to go take some pictures of his friend in his band. They were a pretty good band so we stayed till the next one, so this big guy with a bald head and a leather jacket and tattoos all over his arms steps up on the stage and his drummer sets up and they begin to soft rock... very anti climactic. We left after their first song and returned to my house. I thanked my friend for taking me and the drink he bought me and then he left. No one was at home so I started to fix some food and of course as I'm fixing the food I get a call from my mom asking if I want to eat at an asian buffet for my birthday dinner, I said yes. While we were at dinner we saw an old friend from when I was in third grade. After dinner I went to a play my best friend was operating the concession stand for. I got there really late. Once the play was over I went back to his house and only a few mins after we got home my friend decided we should go get some ice cream at dairy queen. So we got into the car and went to dairy queen but alas! it was closed (iprobably didn't use alas in the correct manner but bear with me) so we went to ingles across the road only to find out they were closed... an then from the darkness of the night someone hollered "go to super wal-mart" so we did. We got a 1lb bag of twizzlers acommpanied by dark chocolate klondike bars, Yum. We ate our junk food, played a zombie game and went to sleep so we could wake the next day for the Obama rally the next day at Asheville high.


The next day (Sunday)we woke up at 8:30 am only because when my frined set the alarm to 8 last night he didn't realize he had set it to 8 pm... not am. So we got a late start to a long day. We got out of the house at around 9:30 and arrived at Asheville high at 9:45 and then got in the big ass line of more then 5000 people! The speech that was going to be given that day was at 2:00 pm so we were there waiting for about four and a half hours because politicians apperantely don't like to be on time. Suddenly the crowed starts to cheer as a black man enters the football field from behind a curtain and photographers rush to shoot as many pictues as they can before their pictures are blocked by heads bobbing up and people with point and shoots raise their cameras in desperation while I sit back with my 200mm telephoto lens shooting away only wishing that I was about a food taller. But no cigar the black man that everyone had so hoped would be Obama was only that, a black man in a suit. After the crowd had been fooled numerous extra times the real Obama stepped out of a blue curtain above the field and shook hands with an ROTC person and began his decline to his podium shaking hands with close to everyone on the isle where he walked. I was in the crowd about 125 feet away from him waiting for his head to emerge from the sea of people so that I could start wailing on my shutter button trying to get the picture that no one else had. I had gotten all the pictures I wanted and there was a man in back of me with a Nikon D40 just as me who asked me if I would shoot some pictures for him because heads probably mine were in the way. So I did and I think I started to shoot too many because only about 30 seconds after he had given me his camera he asked for it back lol. I just hope I got some good shots. The rally ended and my friend and I went home, ate and relaxed. later on the night I was showing his parents a technique called HDR were you take three of the same photo each with different exposures and combine them to make a very dramatic scene. As I was doing this I went to look at one of my friends profiles as an example and the first pciture he had up was of him shacking Obamas hand... I was so jealous. I vow that next time I have the chance to photograph a potential president I will get there much earlier to get the "shot". That night I put a post on craigslist saying that I wanted to be an apprentice to a wedding photographer I hope I get a reply soon.

Monday, October 6th. I got a reply to my post on craigslist via cell phone from some dude named Armando we spoke for a few mins and then he said he had to go and could he call me back? I said yes. He never called me back, hopefully he'll call me today (tuesday Oct 7th). I went by Ritz, the store I'm trying to get a job at to ask about a lens I had a question about. The manager was there so I asked him my question about the lens and we spoke about the Obama rally that happend yesterday. Once conversation subsided he told me that he would like to give me a job and that he just needed to go through a few interviews of other people so that he could say he looked at other people not just me. So it sounds like I'll get the job but he hasnt fully commited to it yet.

I still have no internet today. I'm only able to type this up because I'm at the mac lab at ABtech. lol Sorry if it was too long Adam, assuming your the only one reading this.