So my "assignment" today was to help out with the Neillsville Polar Plunge-it's put on by the local Lions club and is a great fund raiser for our Special Olympics agency.....in fact, our athletes have raised the most money every year of the plunge and thankfully, those funds come right back to the local team to help with costs of competition and training.
My other "assignment" (a self assignment, BTW) was to make some pictures here. I really needed to get back on the shooting horse again. The morning of the plunge was below zero and it gradually warmed to +9 at "swim" time.....luckily. The Lions announce the groups and members and then it's dunk time. A friend, News Herold Photographer Laura Schmitt (http://lschmittphoto.blogspot.com/) was on assignment here also. The plunge is just a great opportunity to get fun images-expression, action (some faster than others) and shooting something out of the ordinary. I knocked off about 200+ frames and edited them down to maybe 75 that I liked. From there maybe 25 keepers. I wondered how Laura does it-she can only publish maybe one photograph from the shoot and it probably is one a photo editor selects. Must be interesting and or frustrating to press the shutter so many times and have it boiled down to one picture which captures the story-that's why she's so good. I didn't have those restrictions and published a bunch to a Facebook album and now here on the blog.
These are some of my favorites.
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| Daina-our Spec. Oly. Snowboarder |
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| The Lobster-Man |
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| Refreshing Dip? |
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| A couple Colby HS Hornettes |
