tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39047651404030438332024-02-06T21:54:08.793-07:00matt slabyMatt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-57867996234848761092008-11-11T21:05:00.004-07:002008-11-12T17:36:30.764-07:00NEW BLOG, Click Below<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Huge photos, nicer blog. Future content on this blog will stop. Follow the link below to my new blog on the Luceo domain.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><a href="http://mattslaby.luceoimages.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">http://MattSlaby.LuceoImages.Com</span></a></span><br /></div></span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-55043226161770682732008-11-02T21:05:00.001-07:002008-11-02T21:07:15.648-07:00Stay Tuned...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">For a new blog and website set to unveil this week. </span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-70564946388962597742008-10-29T12:56:00.004-06:002008-11-02T21:07:43.387-07:00Southwest Colorado 10-29 'til 11-1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Photographing a deer hunt outside of Lamar, Colorado (that's rural southwest on the Oklahoma border) until November 1st. For the uninitiated, that means no cell or internet service. Will be checking voicemail at 8am, 12pm and 6pm MST.</span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-34549181602395530932008-10-21T18:38:00.010-06:002008-10-22T00:48:18.274-06:00Slowing Unto Stopping<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPt8GRlPcyAzf12kiPHsBRnoywo2CVFfmbuunpk5RVwZj_wPs9SC_yMq_pAjOprMBOE5xwwpo-8EqUS4DpSeUucX8T_vl2djZ9b8bvkNIhwlmexZnP-61j1JOB06SsJ3VyYyC0B3rBx4Vx/s1600-h/Grandma_Edit(2)0001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPt8GRlPcyAzf12kiPHsBRnoywo2CVFfmbuunpk5RVwZj_wPs9SC_yMq_pAjOprMBOE5xwwpo-8EqUS4DpSeUucX8T_vl2djZ9b8bvkNIhwlmexZnP-61j1JOB06SsJ3VyYyC0B3rBx4Vx/s400/Grandma_Edit(2)0001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259772777603733890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">[I've been stuck with writer's block for the better part of the last month, trying to piece together something on the occasion of my grandma's death. It's not that there's been a shortage of things to say, rather that the experience has significance beyond losing a loved one. Figuring out which aspect of that experience represents the greater forest of trees seems like a undertaking that will write itself when the time is right. Of all the things wrapped into the dying and death of my grandma, the smaller realities --the idea of entropy, the grace of slowing unto stopping --is something that is immediately accessible. I'm no </span></span><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/780/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Yeats</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> in my ability to talk with any deeper eloquence about entropy and I definitely can't come close to </span></span><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Eliot's</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> masterpiece on aging, but her passing has left me with a few certainties that I feel like I can discuss. The photographs --images of the Slaby farmstead, the drive back to my father's childhood home on the rural Kansas-Nebraska border, my grandmother's burial, cleaning the house following the funeral --is, for me, a record of what it means to get older, to relinquish things that are gone, and to see my family's history in the context of my own, separate life. It is, in a sense, what Adrienne Rich describes as "</span></span><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15228"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">diving into the wreck.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"]</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">***</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">When I'm old I'll walk like this:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">feet crooked like fork tines</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">pegging the wood floor.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br 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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Stepping and then stopping</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> to breathe.<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">***</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><a onblur="try 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPc_3SDeSkRjekXXDXIIzuHTmzRVxDNBe-sBXWmMk5Gbl7n9taa5d25QBSRgnq1Gf-IQFXrveIAFXx-CbWN5C8PCtyc5RW9Xl2rVP71DbiNCqmGnb7L4Ja760CWYJzqWxTDq7jTKtZJzk/s1600-h/Grandma_Edit(2)0012.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPc_3SDeSkRjekXXDXIIzuHTmzRVxDNBe-sBXWmMk5Gbl7n9taa5d25QBSRgnq1Gf-IQFXrveIAFXx-CbWN5C8PCtyc5RW9Xl2rVP71DbiNCqmGnb7L4Ja760CWYJzqWxTDq7jTKtZJzk/s400/Grandma_Edit(2)0012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259771636358661586" /></a><br /></div></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-58694193808284676972008-10-21T14:41:00.005-06:002008-10-21T15:16:12.601-06:00Health For U.S. News & World Report<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKoqSxYpMe969sak6MnB_kE1hN7z7DtQW4-tM7UJuqsIQzOj-HO14iqnxlvMhAE-grm621YoPsgnhnop2DkvQgjlzluV9_UwaVn1nd9bmRK3VNW0H-2dhDGlMtFNSSAYcMuSEy2eUkvMdx/s1600-h/USNEWS_HelenGarcia0498_10-6-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKoqSxYpMe969sak6MnB_kE1hN7z7DtQW4-tM7UJuqsIQzOj-HO14iqnxlvMhAE-grm621YoPsgnhnop2DkvQgjlzluV9_UwaVn1nd9bmRK3VNW0H-2dhDGlMtFNSSAYcMuSEy2eUkvMdx/s400/USNEWS_HelenGarcia0498_10-6-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259710371012477218" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Not the most glamourous piece of real-estate in the magazine (as you can see below, a wee little picture drowning in a sea of words), but I definitely had one of the best conversations in the last couple weeks with the subject of the shoot, Helen Garcia, one of my neighbors who lives just steps from my house. Kind of an everyday hero in the sense that she volunteers massive amounts of time for the local middle and high schools working on health-related issues (and other more academic causes), she's mother to several adult children, grandmother to several more, and an adopted grandma to what seemed like every kid I met in the course of my day with her. Definitely one of the more positive forces in the neighborhood. </span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2FGynrTjpQfiQblY5whb5KtoBHokPGM99nWjy4zYcU1rMzQtcSb7fx-jX4lgqncMWa1a4bXNXJIMO2Z31G68MCGxzwmZ_2pwFbN29y2TUvGO46XQLDyWVB9VWwstUUgou8tB3n6aOEsP/s1600-h/usnwr_helengarcia.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2FGynrTjpQfiQblY5whb5KtoBHokPGM99nWjy4zYcU1rMzQtcSb7fx-jX4lgqncMWa1a4bXNXJIMO2Z31G68MCGxzwmZ_2pwFbN29y2TUvGO46XQLDyWVB9VWwstUUgou8tB3n6aOEsP/s400/usnwr_helengarcia.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259710375445138770" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">...And a huge thanks to the editors at USNWR for helping me work around a little scheduling mishap on account of an unopened jury summons. Even though the Denver summons look like some kind of ridiculous sweepstakes scam, they, um, aren't. So cheers to unpaid parking tickets, stepping on rakes, and other more exciting civic responsibilities. </span></span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-70409522537470485052008-10-20T18:03:00.000-06:002008-10-20T18:03:35.617-06:00Frank the Tank<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKRVeGMRShsomIdx59-T2iaXwXYxOpxTg0rYrBVUUbTpBw4uOCyZmhqxb6EvxV_8orkoPMNMSNTYVdW0uBp3tJfGleml2g_GaHV-RKZ76hNh3aKP4xMVGvGfiPdGZFJGXCNPBBS3PN5Qy/s1600-h/frankweddingtwo_blog_0010.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKRVeGMRShsomIdx59-T2iaXwXYxOpxTg0rYrBVUUbTpBw4uOCyZmhqxb6EvxV_8orkoPMNMSNTYVdW0uBp3tJfGleml2g_GaHV-RKZ76hNh3aKP4xMVGvGfiPdGZFJGXCNPBBS3PN5Qy/s400/frankweddingtwo_blog_0010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259097899200956290" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Fire seems to be the only thing that ever brings me to Nevada. I travelled there for the first time with my job as an 18 year-old wildland firefighter on a hotshot crew based out of Arizona. The trip repeated itself with each passing fire season until my departure from that line of work in late 2003. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After a hiatus, fire again brought me back to Nevada this weekend, returning for the wedding of my old friend and fellow firefighter Frank Machler. In the years since I lived with him in Great Falls, Montana (which, ironically, is neither great nor does it have any falls) Frank has gone on to accept work outside of Carson City, Nevada and, in a move that will undoubtedly strike fear into the hearts of evolutionists everywhere, met his bride-to-be and tied the knot over the weekend.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Frank, for those that don't have the distinct honor of knowing him, is one of the most fiercely positive people that I know and a real privilege to have as a friend. In spite of some significant personal tragedy in recent years, his approach to life has always been upbeat and honest. So it came as no surprise when Frank took a suddenly sincere tone after the wedding to tell me that Cassandra, his bride, is one in a million. I answered him with a joke, telling Frank that there are billions of people in the world so one-in-a million might not be that complimentary. Ok. One in ten million, he says. Still, there's 6.7 billion people on the planet, I say, trying to keep the joke moving. "I gotta tell you, I wouldn't have too much faith in humanity if there weren't more out there like her," Frank replies.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I gotta say that Cassandra's got herself a one-in-ten-million, too.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Best of luck to you both.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LUXK6YkXjQ3_zWO6QrAEwuVAbLGemERHYoiW7exTm2jNySEjEALncH4owGVEnURfm0tWvN-unB-8bBExrFpna2DpfEM4SG29AWSjwEAqrr72zhCQ1lq6bUll4XP7f5DE5tTCgqQwcFob/s1600-h/frankweddingtwo_blog_0011.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LUXK6YkXjQ3_zWO6QrAEwuVAbLGemERHYoiW7exTm2jNySEjEALncH4owGVEnURfm0tWvN-unB-8bBExrFpna2DpfEM4SG29AWSjwEAqrr72zhCQ1lq6bUll4XP7f5DE5tTCgqQwcFob/s400/frankweddingtwo_blog_0011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259097899748623090" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The groom and his brother, Air Force Sergeant Seth Machler, changing after the reception in the Genoa, Nevada firehouse. Seth, Frank's younger brother, put me up in his apartment for several weeks, sight unseen, when I moved to Washington, DC in 2006. "Any friend of my brother's is a friend of mine," I recall him saying on the telephone. </span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghhMEZGU_LfZEQi3GJvYU7DjvaNDVG8H93EO9U9A4OqE9-IVptULZ1vI8LGwuZHaX3uoOJBmJ9dt4WXD8TOcbjHzHdkbND1050JjYranwUCV_wy2oZ1h273LNIRmy8Rkt-jY5ecopffHRD/s1600-h/frankweddingtwo_blog_0012.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghhMEZGU_LfZEQi3GJvYU7DjvaNDVG8H93EO9U9A4OqE9-IVptULZ1vI8LGwuZHaX3uoOJBmJ9dt4WXD8TOcbjHzHdkbND1050JjYranwUCV_wy2oZ1h273LNIRmy8Rkt-jY5ecopffHRD/s400/frankweddingtwo_blog_0012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259097908016930290" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The wedding party following the ceremony. </span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg4RyLRFCgpIJ4hre1oozguAGxmhnZMJT_QF2yOZS4dx_R3T9Pu20AtxMslYX_LEUC6S-twrUDuZuwoMgyrGaL7C0fOP3bGJ3SFNB4HXbCk2msSiNDxigcbr1EIPbO4P_dZAySSt_y-wfV/s1600-h/frankweddingtwo_blog_0013.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg4RyLRFCgpIJ4hre1oozguAGxmhnZMJT_QF2yOZS4dx_R3T9Pu20AtxMslYX_LEUC6S-twrUDuZuwoMgyrGaL7C0fOP3bGJ3SFNB4HXbCk2msSiNDxigcbr1EIPbO4P_dZAySSt_y-wfV/s400/frankweddingtwo_blog_0013.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259097904882964178" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Frank and Cassandra</span></span></div></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-34062153193604214632008-10-20T17:44:00.002-06:002008-10-20T18:02:47.540-06:00A Couple More<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm0KLRjSR_bs74374yCa9E4vKykhcdtA7ym-wenAvuI1PHYqfhYuPjCRBJt7ronwice0R73T9re9ifKqjGd-y4XqWyAlLX1NuLNqbBeLb6cTjbOEnWhnJ3xgvu6roByOEvJsxTs-lBlqAH/s1600-h/frankweddingdayone_blog_0005.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm0KLRjSR_bs74374yCa9E4vKykhcdtA7ym-wenAvuI1PHYqfhYuPjCRBJt7ronwice0R73T9re9ifKqjGd-y4XqWyAlLX1NuLNqbBeLb6cTjbOEnWhnJ3xgvu6roByOEvJsxTs-lBlqAH/s400/frankweddingdayone_blog_0005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259386703058866834" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">My old boss, former hotshot superintendent Chris Theisen, during a 34 minute speakerphone prank call to another old coworker and friend who could not attend the wedding on account of a back injury. His injury, among other much more serious complications, reportedly sends shooting "lightning-like" pain through his buttocks whenever he gets angry. This little tidbit, as you can probably guess, makes for excellent prank call fodder.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQZPATin1k5IrAr1hhT_WB-JHg7lVQrAUAwGG3JT8rl8_SurNrjiykoQuWISLSdcula2T9-p4hdaSyOgNmOseg5EFALQrtWMNBtYyXPKOdLlSnKe0Oxi17Ftsij8Ue9_f4vbbn4tWtaQ33/s1600-h/frankweddingdayone_blog_0006.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQZPATin1k5IrAr1hhT_WB-JHg7lVQrAUAwGG3JT8rl8_SurNrjiykoQuWISLSdcula2T9-p4hdaSyOgNmOseg5EFALQrtWMNBtYyXPKOdLlSnKe0Oxi17Ftsij8Ue9_f4vbbn4tWtaQ33/s400/frankweddingdayone_blog_0006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259386715692008322" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Frank and Cassandra cutting their congratulatory cake following the rehearsal dinner.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0dl8iBcBc-p1zgRpmviHsU2UhqNq8QuXUJ3IcgCKw0RmpjD504-SsohriOQwcM2CHgG3JnNzjkcjTwmtX6p_0zzTxIuokMV5M9CJSalR1lu1QOiLHun34qzpW7MrRnciGL-rA3Frzewt/s1600-h/frankweddingdayone_blog_0007.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0dl8iBcBc-p1zgRpmviHsU2UhqNq8QuXUJ3IcgCKw0RmpjD504-SsohriOQwcM2CHgG3JnNzjkcjTwmtX6p_0zzTxIuokMV5M9CJSalR1lu1QOiLHun34qzpW7MrRnciGL-rA3Frzewt/s400/frankweddingdayone_blog_0007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259386729882370482" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Frank and neice, Teagan Killorn.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCuzD3Bfuly6n0CsqxYjjRe3sej0bogpJd1CaYWn2kMX6Oi97KX8oFiFubwpWVfgSPl8VAG7PrRJcebrG9VRU3mgDb5paEnob89EGyemNEbHSz7XXrhPtjNLYJPpuFnBuOZj80UO_XoST/s1600-h/frankweddingdayone_blog_0008.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCuzD3Bfuly6n0CsqxYjjRe3sej0bogpJd1CaYWn2kMX6Oi97KX8oFiFubwpWVfgSPl8VAG7PrRJcebrG9VRU3mgDb5paEnob89EGyemNEbHSz7XXrhPtjNLYJPpuFnBuOZj80UO_XoST/s400/frankweddingdayone_blog_0008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259386737152819170" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZ9uTOQF7j1e9z5bNnL40hxzLKGLakmRGTSqjI1dNAh1Rq9iPAzXDcOsQOLiVK-mmr9Mm5-_Zg4wuOiIWk-etxoE9EoA9ubYWVnobinEkkfIy6Hjp7zzKWaGyq933azHXU0Df4J94y5nD/s1600-h/frankweddingdayone_blog_0009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZ9uTOQF7j1e9z5bNnL40hxzLKGLakmRGTSqjI1dNAh1Rq9iPAzXDcOsQOLiVK-mmr9Mm5-_Zg4wuOiIWk-etxoE9EoA9ubYWVnobinEkkfIy6Hjp7zzKWaGyq933azHXU0Df4J94y5nD/s400/frankweddingdayone_blog_0009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259386740447535746" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">[end]</span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-39154752264433431582008-10-20T17:43:00.000-06:002008-10-20T19:38:42.477-06:00Polaroid Wedding<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UmQBTPFcUQQMBOg_5DEMCCk9Ypa9lb-vYuZ0WSCxpU0c9ovvVrgBDADYAwtIlr8xLAtVxyJTwZc878_smPtLEJqF8ED0IKhQK-eDPts7SfKmc_85Us3t9_pffRUbmIhOpj25gOlD6iax/s1600-h/Polaroid_FrankWedding002.jpg"><blockquote></blockquote><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UmQBTPFcUQQMBOg_5DEMCCk9Ypa9lb-vYuZ0WSCxpU0c9ovvVrgBDADYAwtIlr8xLAtVxyJTwZc878_smPtLEJqF8ED0IKhQK-eDPts7SfKmc_85Us3t9_pffRUbmIhOpj25gOlD6iax/s400/Polaroid_FrankWedding002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259405571000904850" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Frank in the Genoa Firehouse following his wedding.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCDxXNFr82lZHsgr-eQwi8B94WMMWko9X3I5yFY0qQQlTb2fcuBjYHhYGK-25Oy7O1npsHHlmbxNXvNDxLpl-AOLkq8viK1jDE_hz07SXBJ4oZDOma5coCFC5Xb1smdBUxisdOb645yRjA/s1600-h/Polaroid_FrankWedding004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCDxXNFr82lZHsgr-eQwi8B94WMMWko9X3I5yFY0qQQlTb2fcuBjYHhYGK-25Oy7O1npsHHlmbxNXvNDxLpl-AOLkq8viK1jDE_hz07SXBJ4oZDOma5coCFC5Xb1smdBUxisdOb645yRjA/s400/Polaroid_FrankWedding004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259405570196349490" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Air Force Sergeant and Iraq veteran Seth Machler and neice Teagan Killorn.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMgRbIHOrlN9tACMkJQDoiGrDy6fgSOFMBD2KIPytZaEU3TvZSY1tlpkwg2vfhu2YlLtnme7T4TN7HfLaGK2wrK_8aFBrpxi2OyXwXbGXJI2dTKIECVjCMtPA3nKbv3iBCb6cmSR4eZSA/s1600-h/Polaroid_FrankWedding003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMgRbIHOrlN9tACMkJQDoiGrDy6fgSOFMBD2KIPytZaEU3TvZSY1tlpkwg2vfhu2YlLtnme7T4TN7HfLaGK2wrK_8aFBrpxi2OyXwXbGXJI2dTKIECVjCMtPA3nKbv3iBCb6cmSR4eZSA/s400/Polaroid_FrankWedding003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259405574913453858" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brothers Seth and Jordan Machler.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GerSTGo5bHKMzMeejyWYsbN1TFU1cL6SW1pYkt2nKLqwd9-X4kRKZI0DYqvY8XtAMaVDkfrOaA7D_60lE2A7ONTbUR5pXocxKYAtNmeUEflZ7E68ARS29qnKYIJhYA-a3ImmLqsTvQZk/s1600-h/Polaroid_FrankWedding005.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GerSTGo5bHKMzMeejyWYsbN1TFU1cL6SW1pYkt2nKLqwd9-X4kRKZI0DYqvY8XtAMaVDkfrOaA7D_60lE2A7ONTbUR5pXocxKYAtNmeUEflZ7E68ARS29qnKYIJhYA-a3ImmLqsTvQZk/s400/Polaroid_FrankWedding005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259405583938818578" /></a><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Seth and a fan from the bride's side.<br /></span></span><br /></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-40244079968463569962008-10-20T14:35:00.005-06:002008-10-20T15:22:57.708-06:00Kevin German Talks Luceo<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Woke up this morning to find </span></span></span><a href="http://kevingerman.blogspot.com/2008/10/luceo-images.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Kevin German's latest blog entry</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> about </span></span></span><a href="http://luceoimages.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Luceo Images</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in my inbox. This December marks one year since we flew to Atlanta, camped on David Walter Banks' apartment floor (literally), and put together our plan for what Kevin describes as: </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"[A]</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> collective formed by like-minded, passionate photographers that simply wish to have a greater voice by banding and branding together. Our collective could not serve as a representation of our work ... in fact, it is quite the opposite. It is the photographer who represents the collective. Actively promoting and searching out new clients ... not just for themselves, but for the other group members as well. When one of us do[es] well, we all do well."</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Kevin's post also draws from an interview given by group provocateur </span></span></span><a href="http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2008/09/02/finding-a-rep-or-starting-a-collective/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">David Walter Banks on Aphotoeditor.com</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> explaining his enthusiasm and belief that the photographer lone-wolf mentality is becoming a harmful proposition in an increasingly saturated industry. Banks elaborates:</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“The other reason for all this is our belief in helping each other out and being open in the photo industry rather than the one-for-all mentality that is so engrained. We can all work together to edit new projects, work up budgets, make pitches and generally have power in numbers.”</span></span></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">***</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As I finalize my travel preparations for Luceo's second annual meeting coming up in New York, I am pleasantly surprised by the developments and enthusiasm in our group over recent months. This year, though, I'm not sleeping on the floor. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "></span></span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmW5QRZOqE2zxmHBP9F5EN3CO8evANQFnWCrE6uPaE5b5zr7GU6iKTI9ctIupwOW8HJB_l2VsotH3ETal9bfa6wPrQyEYB7-L6vFesskVHhZTEV4V6cjV8jDK-dqyBLf8rs_Z53RhqpHSX/s1600-h/collective_blog_0002.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmW5QRZOqE2zxmHBP9F5EN3CO8evANQFnWCrE6uPaE5b5zr7GU6iKTI9ctIupwOW8HJB_l2VsotH3ETal9bfa6wPrQyEYB7-L6vFesskVHhZTEV4V6cjV8jDK-dqyBLf8rs_Z53RhqpHSX/s400/collective_blog_0002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257940922515376226" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">David Walter Banks</span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkDpG814b6lSMpuekb4XPT2Ux5GLFbAoD7W0mKZNQ7rfJNRa7oKVbt9X1T4AcV3YuomEZk4E5v3lDmdcZ3arQf2a-f0RmxFexEvQrBAAkaQCfQU2Ak-oEhMVb68nJ4PScIWQbWQxI7ENe/s1600-h/collective_blog_0003.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkDpG814b6lSMpuekb4XPT2Ux5GLFbAoD7W0mKZNQ7rfJNRa7oKVbt9X1T4AcV3YuomEZk4E5v3lDmdcZ3arQf2a-f0RmxFexEvQrBAAkaQCfQU2Ak-oEhMVb68nJ4PScIWQbWQxI7ENe/s400/collective_blog_0003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257940923659351938" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Kevin German (who came out in spite of being sick as death squared)</span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMFx2Ph_gZQ1-ok_qeEzvq0mA6laEvBEgyqewkNTGpXWzUCPyKsjZuBpN78vU9OmnScpvJtHOrRRFdDyTpaUI9O6U-WJ6w0Vx9B4Sms1JGcr_IBPKU8ukL6CO7FLszNWF6CzlD4xpRfWx/s1600-h/collective_blog_0001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMFx2Ph_gZQ1-ok_qeEzvq0mA6laEvBEgyqewkNTGpXWzUCPyKsjZuBpN78vU9OmnScpvJtHOrRRFdDyTpaUI9O6U-WJ6w0Vx9B4Sms1JGcr_IBPKU8ukL6CO7FLszNWF6CzlD4xpRfWx/s400/collective_blog_0001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257940925852310258" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Kendrick "Claudia" Brinson</span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3wuL014gDMWsJEzbvC6urrhWXoV-iCy4FuLULHVIAZJwkdspTmuQvNiHZZiDU_Q_NUlSxqCYZWnaWmwPsrLJ7OGiLK36Q15xwkhAdo6Wv6Yfq03YTkPOoyrIklZ-B7SfrcyDOXSysqKHC/s1600-h/collective_blog_0004.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3wuL014gDMWsJEzbvC6urrhWXoV-iCy4FuLULHVIAZJwkdspTmuQvNiHZZiDU_Q_NUlSxqCYZWnaWmwPsrLJ7OGiLK36Q15xwkhAdo6Wv6Yfq03YTkPOoyrIklZ-B7SfrcyDOXSysqKHC/s400/collective_blog_0004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257940927059009058" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tim Lytvinenko (on his damn Iphone)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Not pictured: Matt Eich & Chip Litherland.</span></span></span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-25475540640394169142008-10-17T14:59:00.003-06:002008-10-17T15:38:35.739-06:00Telegraph from Unlikely Reno<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">HELP [stop]</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">PLANE LANDED IN RENO [stop]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">BLUE HAIR [stop]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">STRAIN IS UNBEARABLE [stop]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">SEND REINFORCEMENTS, SUPPLIES, MEDICINE [stop]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">BACK TO DENVER ON SUNDAY [stop]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">GODWILLING [over]</span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-73347861536638132882008-10-16T15:12:00.006-06:002008-10-16T18:47:21.211-06:00Joe Plumber<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35R89w3obb1TqsopPTEuAgNtp9F6xru8bN8vzzGrNg8QO5BUC8FJqXJjttxv_gwMB2dR43psH4Rm0JFyPubObxPQTTrhea5zvkC6VYwTJhauxdGIhg8HGvvPyFNH1ocCQhRynruzUJGch/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0003.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54Ss8ujHSGmqIiypjWdyUBK0ezUmEh0_wX8eqS3Fv2DxPd4OtGyjG_QV2ZS_wupTbbA9EA16VVXjF9KtalkYMAalTthmYAG5Odp1kPNu5Mh3T6lXU6TCRVRSUc_D10o1U57i9JRxNjdvQ/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54Ss8ujHSGmqIiypjWdyUBK0ezUmEh0_wX8eqS3Fv2DxPd4OtGyjG_QV2ZS_wupTbbA9EA16VVXjF9KtalkYMAalTthmYAG5Odp1kPNu5Mh3T6lXU6TCRVRSUc_D10o1U57i9JRxNjdvQ/s400/GlobGlobGlob_0001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257864090601507810" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Started the night off here (pictured above, planted on the couch with friends and long-term documentary subjects Tripp Wallin and Zach Spencer) watching what could be the most patronizing amalgamation of soundbites in the last 48 hours of television history. You know, the whole 'Joe Plumber' exchange in which we are introduced to "</span><a href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/16/joe-plumber-represents-hopes-dreams-political-football/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">the nation's everyman.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">" Apparently the protagonist of this little fairy tale is concerned about his taxpaying role as an average, ordinary, regular guy earning the meager scrap wage of a quarter million dollars annually. (awesome work on the 'everyman' verbage there, Fox News)</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">For anyone who missed that --the figure, again --is a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">quarter million bucks.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> And that number, according to the McCain camp, sits firmly among the rolls of the American middle class.<br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">So, I guess, in an era where '30 is the new 20' it must also follow that $250,000 is the new $35,000... and $35,000 is the new $12,000 and so on. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The thing about politics is that these snarky little soundbites --the way the public gets to peek through the periscope from which our politicians look back at us --leave a lot of room for cynicism. For me, it's a tough to walk the tightrope over that alligator pit, trying to keep in mind that the promise that I'm looking for is not necessarily about the bottom line on my income taxes, but rather how that number translates back into the living, breathing people of a stripe a little more ordinary than our quarter million dollar plumber.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgebBdnGjbg0u8ekrqGw9lmieBDyruIFuffx8rBeEIi_qmAnZPYWLzTm4BzTn2eCyeVaTPjeKF11LIjoaW_1XLLB4jMoz7wS0ng920hyWZ6fTA8JA2M2v64HASRmCm2PRec_-yDF3vX-tCN/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0002.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgebBdnGjbg0u8ekrqGw9lmieBDyruIFuffx8rBeEIi_qmAnZPYWLzTm4BzTn2eCyeVaTPjeKF11LIjoaW_1XLLB4jMoz7wS0ng920hyWZ6fTA8JA2M2v64HASRmCm2PRec_-yDF3vX-tCN/s400/GlobGlobGlob_0002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257864088985493170" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Thankfully, where the politicians fall off the sincerity wagon, it's always nice to be able to count on the cultural front to pick up those pieces and put them back in their rightful places. Read a good interview in The Onion yesterday with David Byrne in which he talked about the role of sincerity in music (and, in my opinion, art, literature, culture, etc.) He says: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"When you see or hear a singer or a performer who has this incredible charismatic gift or this incredible voice --who could sing the phonebook and make you cry --they often fall into performing or recording substandard material, because it's so easy for them to pull it off. Whereas somebody who has to try harder, and you can sense that in their performance, you kind of believe it a little bit more."</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">For anyone who doesn't like to read, you can see Bill Hicks express this same idea (with a little more, um, clarity) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnujFxBotw">here</a>. Townes Van Zandt plays it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8">here</a>. The obscure and fantastic Friends Forever gang do it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDY1AypdgtA">here</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Or you could have just gone to the show last night at Denver's Glob and watched four of the most intense and honest sets that have been played to an audience of 15 (and, no doubt would have played the same to an empty room). Unlike politics, the currency of culture is real people and the value of each denomination is measured in terms of sincerity, honesty, congruency between person and art, the way we want to believe of the artist that the product they create is born of a compulsion, of something greater than themselves --that the result is honest because it couldn't have happened any other way. I guess, when it's all said and done, we want to believe that when a tree falls in the woods, and there is nobody around to hear it, that it still makes a noise. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">And after last night, I'm quite certain that it does.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35R89w3obb1TqsopPTEuAgNtp9F6xru8bN8vzzGrNg8QO5BUC8FJqXJjttxv_gwMB2dR43psH4Rm0JFyPubObxPQTTrhea5zvkC6VYwTJhauxdGIhg8HGvvPyFNH1ocCQhRynruzUJGch/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0003.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35R89w3obb1TqsopPTEuAgNtp9F6xru8bN8vzzGrNg8QO5BUC8FJqXJjttxv_gwMB2dR43psH4Rm0JFyPubObxPQTTrhea5zvkC6VYwTJhauxdGIhg8HGvvPyFNH1ocCQhRynruzUJGch/s400/GlobGlobGlob_0003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257909475348467970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote></blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHiuFb8pl8HQirCWT5w7C9cZPh7FIh7-A7ZaWGMatCXJSbVDLcMSWtOyFtdb1S1vJeRKXgDjuv6T1bVxBafsXkL-hXdUYtX_64Sr9qZct125E4DE3GT1s7-rTgioWcy11bg1UFikbin0z/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0006.JPG"></a></span></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00-O-PTXwjrIv62sHZv_vJp8tzhezRLJ_iddeaoz2dHGBodkYBN3CJP9-XCedzh9xEN8oPiKlLZ9RYDN7t6SioLv1cHywtX0nDLbGb2DfcY6MMr4OaKSVEfQXnySk3wg13VFCTjEOEJ9L/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0004.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00-O-PTXwjrIv62sHZv_vJp8tzhezRLJ_iddeaoz2dHGBodkYBN3CJP9-XCedzh9xEN8oPiKlLZ9RYDN7t6SioLv1cHywtX0nDLbGb2DfcY6MMr4OaKSVEfQXnySk3wg13VFCTjEOEJ9L/s400/GlobGlobGlob_0004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257864095688737554" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Photographer and musician, Sean Chisholm, of experimental noise band, Vampire Pussy, setting up for his show. (Also pictured above during his set)</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4K7ofBlkZix6jJnAkerZ7t5pTO3uY4yRSQjy3dYOsx77qwkZ97jhhYsmto1x8QwBOGfZTUZwklGt6RKjduZitqYbv1azOnmRpH-3hPS1j3gz9OIhN562EzM8QGT8mtmhQPI1qmVy0__Cu/s1600-h/GlobGlobGlob_0005.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4K7ofBlkZix6jJnAkerZ7t5pTO3uY4yRSQjy3dYOsx77qwkZ97jhhYsmto1x8QwBOGfZTUZwklGt6RKjduZitqYbv1azOnmRpH-3hPS1j3gz9OIhN562EzM8QGT8mtmhQPI1qmVy0__Cu/s400/GlobGlobGlob_0005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257864100648508482" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Judy Experience. Saxophone-playing-goat-mask-wearing-multimedia show.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHiuFb8pl8HQirCWT5w7C9cZPh7FIh7-A7ZaWGMatCXJSbVDLcMSWtOyFtdb1S1vJeRKXgDjuv6T1bVxBafsXkL-hXdUYtX_64Sr9qZct125E4DE3GT1s7-rTgioWcy11bg1UFikbin0z/s400/GlobGlobGlob_0006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257864274246454674" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Bands: <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=75979779">Bongo Fury</a>, <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=356136717">Modern Witch</a>, <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=96446043">The Judy Experience</a>, & <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=96446043">Vampire Pussy</a>.</span></span><br /></span><br /></div></div></div></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-38401050913523650042008-10-14T17:42:00.000-06:002008-10-14T17:43:26.017-06:00Back At It<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Been away from my blog on account of work, writer's block, and an overwhelming body of photos that I've been editing through since the conventions. Should be back to regular posting for the near future. </span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-55174808442387287112008-10-14T17:29:00.004-06:002008-10-14T18:27:32.125-06:00The 37th Frame<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPcZG88YkwkawakBKxutWpWyNUjLVuj99CI1QgUux8UN9HzWJhePG6UmE1S2Y3lbqAjQ0YcTaU11eqK2SDiMzyEet68BYz_Sr0Ug47kTccpxd11vjg6nH-SdbdWUaCE76ScTRMtjQBbKj7/s1600-h/screen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPcZG88YkwkawakBKxutWpWyNUjLVuj99CI1QgUux8UN9HzWJhePG6UmE1S2Y3lbqAjQ0YcTaU11eqK2SDiMzyEet68BYz_Sr0Ug47kTccpxd11vjg6nH-SdbdWUaCE76ScTRMtjQBbKj7/s400/screen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257162720273078562" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div><br /></div><div>Glad to return home today to find an email from <a href="http://petemarovichimages.com/">Pete Marovich</a> about some old work from Mexico on the <a href="http://aphotoaday.org/">APhotoADay</a> Blog posted under the essays section about four years ago. Marovich reps <a href="http://www.the37thframe.org/?p=293">that work</a> along with a daily serving of new and inspiring imagery from a broad cross-section of photographers on his blog dedicated to that purpose. See for yourself at <a href="http://www.the37thframe.org/">The 37th Frame.</a> <br /></div></span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-38664429111669033062008-10-14T13:07:00.006-06:002008-10-22T00:38:27.826-06:00Polaroid Odds and Ends<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACPBXuUSeXEY69qKQOiiKFpfTtgUeAkErcM1O6gPNtZNcJ4AMZyyG7Od8B7MT1sBOWGStxpz-8XN4Jg7TT6YoCVse3W5Uhyphenhyphen71HVNxLqIgXdLTb_-4CzUQi96YvHwTIISkWAdW_4FNgFWZ/s400/Polaroid_ArapahoeCounty003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257088559746846130" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In case it's not already clear, for about the last year I've been carrying around one of my old Polaroid Land Cameras as my, um --please don't laugh --second camera body. The analogue features of the Polaroid really force a serious slow-down in the approach to shooting and, as a result, lends itself to impromptu portraiture. Like most of the long-term stuff I'm working on, the start and finish of the Polaroid project is a little bit grey and will probably only really end when the l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">ast box of pack film rolls off Fuji's assembly line. Anyhow, these frames are all side-notes to the TIME shoot featured below, people that I met wandering around Arapahoe County, Colorado. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(Above: John "30" Werner, "Freedom," a seven year-old ball python, and Veronica Sanchez pictured near their home in Aurora, Colo.)</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOTeygCdl3G27pISaYajsQP0Kl5mOGkZXrWa1-cx7itzJwJL75h6sZd6dXRd9_7NNeHZWCmBHJwfkUCr05cwBQGnZR5_Ntp7rHTFiHC72r7dnbLihoiMtIwaCvSHr7L56BRvnXub0LMzd/s1600-h/Polaroid_ArapahoeCounty001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOTeygCdl3G27pISaYajsQP0Kl5mOGkZXrWa1-cx7itzJwJL75h6sZd6dXRd9_7NNeHZWCmBHJwfkUCr05cwBQGnZR5_Ntp7rHTFiHC72r7dnbLihoiMtIwaCvSHr7L56BRvnXub0LMzd/s400/Polaroid_ArapahoeCounty001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257088561823264866" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Tanner Means, 9, of Denver and his dirt bike in Byers, Colo.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACPBXuUSeXEY69qKQOiiKFpfTtgUeAkErcM1O6gPNtZNcJ4AMZyyG7Od8B7MT1sBOWGStxpz-8XN4Jg7TT6YoCVse3W5Uhyphenhyphen71HVNxLqIgXdLTb_-4CzUQi96YvHwTIISkWAdW_4FNgFWZ/s1600-h/Polaroid_ArapahoeCounty003.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXanMpjRWNfGMQ1Ss7QbpPRDeXPnn4_ZN6InV7Oy72LpfI9fW5zuX9jmTVzWQrRBPtHQHafI1KBKbxqUPbtQ-IJvceGmmLpclOdGAfCT6RLr4-4aMoa917TrWfSKQvgrPUaHh4yZC5GGYv/s1600-h/Polaroid_ArapahoeCounty004.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXanMpjRWNfGMQ1Ss7QbpPRDeXPnn4_ZN6InV7Oy72LpfI9fW5zuX9jmTVzWQrRBPtHQHafI1KBKbxqUPbtQ-IJvceGmmLpclOdGAfCT6RLr4-4aMoa917TrWfSKQvgrPUaHh4yZC5GGYv/s400/Polaroid_ArapahoeCounty004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257088562193396226" /></a>Democratic congressional candidate Hank Eng at his campaign headquarters in Littleton, Colorado. Eng, the son of Chinese immigrants, is a self-described moderate Democrat. He is running in a historically conservative district against Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman for a seat vacated by longtime conservative, anti-immigrant Congressman Tom Tancredo. Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-15940914820872155552008-10-14T10:52:00.008-06:002008-10-14T18:39:37.614-06:00TIME Campaign Feature<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B4y11c-fQZxXqM_njQ2OsjaYTw9T8tIZAK9U4amJFxYYQFwxZYoeka4MVM7h_W9imrhRvawQrlVptU8jprAh6T5Dr0P9iBiiV8NKElTkZU9SsUMJgW0p-sO_1akaRrkeS4HNRaIkyhnR/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2546_9-8-8.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtxkqBj_6skgroS1mSo8ccU4q16ifDejBJoB175gIsPEF5bOfeVM0IUBwdDzk8CRU3ti9aoaY_vNbeRHMMy2fQX83hi-dvvM18C_QR_scwkrDFScVvE120Wf6whhGnx0Q6jzQeYh_Zyw-5/s1600-h/TIME_ARAP3310.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtxkqBj_6skgroS1mSo8ccU4q16ifDejBJoB175gIsPEF5bOfeVM0IUBwdDzk8CRU3ti9aoaY_vNbeRHMMy2fQX83hi-dvvM18C_QR_scwkrDFScVvE120Wf6whhGnx0Q6jzQeYh_Zyw-5/s400/TIME_ARAP3310.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257055616934952786" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Had another fun assignment for TIME that played out like a three day photographic scavenger hunt. Started with a short-list of things the magazine was looking for and took to driving around one of Colorado's largest counties, putting in a couple 16-hour days exploring and photographing. Thrilled with the magazine's choice of pictures and found their hands-off approach to something as thematic and abstract as the electorate of an entire county a welcome and refreshing challenge.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The Pictures</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOhj4LStPOzNcB66SO32Uf1k0rwLn7ayB-lDQJ-ClM37ptZL1DdbjdV1SCLeizyjC6kzD2PmZWrqoGfPtbzOs65wh7YmlCqT45vgh97yIL1BdRGxJjrV7SmyyeHYqhyphenhyphen8Bey3r-IuSAVKF/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2390_9-8-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOhj4LStPOzNcB66SO32Uf1k0rwLn7ayB-lDQJ-ClM37ptZL1DdbjdV1SCLeizyjC6kzD2PmZWrqoGfPtbzOs65wh7YmlCqT45vgh97yIL1BdRGxJjrV7SmyyeHYqhyphenhyphen8Bey3r-IuSAVKF/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2390_9-8-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257061926892008354" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: left;">Members of the Sheridan High School football team take a break during half-time. Sheridan, a small municipality on the most western end of Arapahoe County, shares borders with Denver and is 33% Latino, sharing similar demographics with the state capital, a historically liberal area in a mostly red state.<br /></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7SrkazHt1ThNmQ-UPatbf2zFM8Z_DDbPpeK1wfIOKgkNloGHcro1U5fAb35AZjvr-KxwBzulXX4qK5gzMqMkQzS6AVF6cYYix0sN3-BbUwb3R_5OMTNH91Se0NOykV2stw_FgA-bWsa-/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2604_9-9-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7SrkazHt1ThNmQ-UPatbf2zFM8Z_DDbPpeK1wfIOKgkNloGHcro1U5fAb35AZjvr-KxwBzulXX4qK5gzMqMkQzS6AVF6cYYix0sN3-BbUwb3R_5OMTNH91Se0NOykV2stw_FgA-bWsa-/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2604_9-9-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257061459350483762" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Owners Yaa Asieduwaa and Peter Dwowoh at the Makola African Market in Aurora Colorado. The market has been a fixture of the neighborhood for over a decade and serves a largely immigrant clientele. <br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR8XrTwf_v49IYUNmOx74cZKgHnysNJtScazATk1BqUrW0nQGDPdyJfgVItchFGvQlgiQrWikFuSqaVHNzBH5OXALODSpm6V9lfKz2EZg-00CA5UwBXUjusHBYLHm2kVyGTnhTMZZIp9Y7/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2569_9-8-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR8XrTwf_v49IYUNmOx74cZKgHnysNJtScazATk1BqUrW0nQGDPdyJfgVItchFGvQlgiQrWikFuSqaVHNzBH5OXALODSpm6V9lfKz2EZg-00CA5UwBXUjusHBYLHm2kVyGTnhTMZZIp9Y7/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2569_9-8-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257061464369787298" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Betty Englebrecht plays multiple Bingo cards at the weekly game held at the American Legion hall in Byers, Colorado. The hall sees between 20 and 70 residents each week from surrounding communities for the game. </span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqdf8j8sSO76y8WryBUxWutkpgA97Obc82VrTBJy-MnMmMU_CacQq1cIBTb4bF_UcgsfCvP4ZwZ3nDQydOhxtGba6bfqme4AE5MDVy02tk11cnsfwK8PLMgeWkX29P7jnVlMOanI3YtDeM/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty1791_9-7-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqdf8j8sSO76y8WryBUxWutkpgA97Obc82VrTBJy-MnMmMU_CacQq1cIBTb4bF_UcgsfCvP4ZwZ3nDQydOhxtGba6bfqme4AE5MDVy02tk11cnsfwK8PLMgeWkX29P7jnVlMOanI3YtDeM/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty1791_9-7-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257061465932384322" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia;">Savanna, Koby, and Tanner Means in rural Byers, Colorado. Although property values in the Denver metropolitan area have skyrocketed in recent decades, the economic situation in eastern Colorado remains subdued. Arapahoe County is one of the most populous counties in the United States, though it also encompasses a large swath of rural, eastern Colorado.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;">The Extras</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B4y11c-fQZxXqM_njQ2OsjaYTw9T8tIZAK9U4amJFxYYQFwxZYoeka4MVM7h_W9imrhRvawQrlVptU8jprAh6T5Dr0P9iBiiV8NKElTkZU9SsUMJgW0p-sO_1akaRrkeS4HNRaIkyhnR/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2546_9-8-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B4y11c-fQZxXqM_njQ2OsjaYTw9T8tIZAK9U4amJFxYYQFwxZYoeka4MVM7h_W9imrhRvawQrlVptU8jprAh6T5Dr0P9iBiiV8NKElTkZU9SsUMJgW0p-sO_1akaRrkeS4HNRaIkyhnR/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2546_9-8-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257062844644899074" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The city lights of Aurora, Arapahoe County's largest and most populous municipality, reflect off low clouds hugging the plains east of the city. <br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg2la3kTSBUjY8JjjzNMwn47uZSJuK1Bn7IS_jZno7vBziJgXKFPCe9o2mKgZJfiets-tR7TSyyjdR00FNDRNyCMeOBEKnIuQk-yxhl0CSWF3_AQVcVkyTTcB_MhlV5lOUSArHfkyb9LG/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2521_9-8-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg2la3kTSBUjY8JjjzNMwn47uZSJuK1Bn7IS_jZno7vBziJgXKFPCe9o2mKgZJfiets-tR7TSyyjdR00FNDRNyCMeOBEKnIuQk-yxhl0CSWF3_AQVcVkyTTcB_MhlV5lOUSArHfkyb9LG/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2521_9-8-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257062844838927778" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A nearly-completed house marks the furthest edge of eastern development on the fringes of Aurora, Colorado. Aurora is Arapahoe County's largest and most populous municipality and is currently experiencing a construction boom.</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhke5B-NeDyEOqfxAQbmqR7OPxeZCvYQULF74ddmV8XnHyhG_XtmHHIEfPPZrGtbpdIFeTiZnWFrtLju4AmpmqWSgj9M2s3FlGZkdbfFFmY5X7XLvv_2_S32rxC8RqCwBg5Lqbeq8lQSXDY/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2793_9-9-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhke5B-NeDyEOqfxAQbmqR7OPxeZCvYQULF74ddmV8XnHyhG_XtmHHIEfPPZrGtbpdIFeTiZnWFrtLju4AmpmqWSgj9M2s3FlGZkdbfFFmY5X7XLvv_2_S32rxC8RqCwBg5Lqbeq8lQSXDY/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2793_9-9-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257062845044964306" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Crista Laughlin shows a photograph of her 18 year-old daughter who recently completed basic training in the U.S. Navy. She is flanked by Patriot Guard Riders "Sparky" Blanks and "Sarge" Knight at a home in Aurora, Colorado. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lUWD7fOLQze0XnHNP_Qb29AusX_ykxq99Atxc7hSWFwu27p5uuOoZLBS0Y2UKCr7EQQEX9a5bFL4N8fYYMM2PdCzdHynEAl-AhShYWtEEEiY5BmVCobBIr2946_algRUk5pHDEAwp7zj/s1600-h/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2129_9-8-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lUWD7fOLQze0XnHNP_Qb29AusX_ykxq99Atxc7hSWFwu27p5uuOoZLBS0Y2UKCr7EQQEX9a5bFL4N8fYYMM2PdCzdHynEAl-AhShYWtEEEiY5BmVCobBIr2946_algRUk5pHDEAwp7zj/s400/TIME_ArapahoeCounty2129_9-8-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257062848388549442" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Elvis Gallego, an Elvis impersonator, McCain supporter, and postal worker, sits for a portrait in his home near downtown Littleton, Colorado. Gallegos initially backed Clinton before switching to McCain fearing Barack Obama, the Democratic Presidential Nominee, lacked the requisite experience for the presidency.</span><br /></div><br /></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-57986827363359786212008-09-16T20:56:00.002-06:002008-09-16T21:09:55.526-06:00RNC: Acceptance<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4MY0vBSVFR0gyFykQNRmQfuPsDvn2JjTVMapTmqPLyJF3NNOOixOUxzW2Tm0QdTgTNMGHlv7eaYLMkd6MpS-X8PQFUIcgab2DJGIvmw2hKG3GllBzfJ4H41iQQqO75DOYR0pbRmQmpttp/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul1076_9-4-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4MY0vBSVFR0gyFykQNRmQfuPsDvn2JjTVMapTmqPLyJF3NNOOixOUxzW2Tm0QdTgTNMGHlv7eaYLMkd6MpS-X8PQFUIcgab2DJGIvmw2hKG3GllBzfJ4H41iQQqO75DOYR0pbRmQmpttp/s400/RNC_StPaul1076_9-4-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246821215737540914" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Leaving out some of the color work from the protests outside the convention on the day of the acceptance. Most of those images appear below in Polaroid format. I'm as happy with those images as I am with the color files and hate to be redundant. Anyhow, I've been on a string of assignments that have kept me away from my blog for the last eight days. Time to finalize the RNC work and bring this project to a close. A complete edit will appear on my site within the next few days as well as a group project shot together with David Walter Banks to follow on the Luceo site. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-uRGwMMiFeKiobXjnvz-1_-wbjp-YgPjlQWtFoCm8_4RaTnFWObykclSUXbg7Flgptqbyupx65d_S5ixFxxOZx_TxAFdfWrKEMM7j9nMZhQISG05r0j3uTTIB14VAizUAkwhkEYizIxc/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul1057_9-4-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-uRGwMMiFeKiobXjnvz-1_-wbjp-YgPjlQWtFoCm8_4RaTnFWObykclSUXbg7Flgptqbyupx65d_S5ixFxxOZx_TxAFdfWrKEMM7j9nMZhQISG05r0j3uTTIB14VAizUAkwhkEYizIxc/s400/RNC_StPaul1057_9-4-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246821224024899058" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXZkcCLoq2kWDHusS16YKxD2GZIQ6L3SPxIq3Wv2lCA8zLbaTjHNU6b3R7pgvWOfQsZcSy8jKCIHtdGLOMQEoIFMgOme0nIemekCkWiydkDAWZIVUHqz1GybR0mXKYwFLjjLnu6dKEbme/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul1125_9-4-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXZkcCLoq2kWDHusS16YKxD2GZIQ6L3SPxIq3Wv2lCA8zLbaTjHNU6b3R7pgvWOfQsZcSy8jKCIHtdGLOMQEoIFMgOme0nIemekCkWiydkDAWZIVUHqz1GybR0mXKYwFLjjLnu6dKEbme/s400/RNC_StPaul1125_9-4-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246821228153542786" /></a>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-92049762687543581402008-09-11T02:50:00.003-06:002008-09-11T03:02:38.140-06:00RNC: Arrest-a-Roids<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxGBtsvg3X1fw65wr5GBqUuVFQK0JBut6F52fWDLnvBkhx1EaYxwMEJElAQ3_tGybaov00ccA5subqRZz0Hi5dtP0-GHIvSGz0lgGGTRduFGjEBLOWLf5-vBD2AFTj_sQgceb5WNn4d_U/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC001a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxGBtsvg3X1fw65wr5GBqUuVFQK0JBut6F52fWDLnvBkhx1EaYxwMEJElAQ3_tGybaov00ccA5subqRZz0Hi5dtP0-GHIvSGz0lgGGTRduFGjEBLOWLf5-vBD2AFTj_sQgceb5WNn4d_U/s400/Polaroid_RNC001a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244683799250277490" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Been shooting non-stop since I returned from the RNC. Heading out in the morning for another four days. Might be a break in the storm after the weekend so that I can have a chance to update the color work from the RNC and write something a little more substantial than minimalist captions. Context for some of these pictures is important. The short story is that there were a lot of arrests at the RNC. The longer story deserves more than a sentence. Anyhow, getting through police lines to the final speech turned out to be an exercise in dealing with less-than-professional police officers. I have a pretty strong feeling that the protesters who were arrested (along with a handful of journalists) might have more colorful adjectives in mind. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyNw-2AHdY4FGCDzaGrH0lske1VDvI0gnUMsM_Pa4iwLoGQEWqEUi-23v6yjs3fKJRqWQbhuJwlr2y_jlsHGnQAuLX40wsWMWmuermP2DnLQodTZe70pPBOrEfiTiSeyxFV_Ya3QGZ_b-J/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC002a.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUoGGr1gLj0I9Zt1ZPqszkO7z-UBuLUekbj4tOsf-GKjGcdoo8HVPIS9RkKZbvTWfEVFpRuSJ_qhuURkhzP8rP144po7AqAEO2VDtJZx0OAWF7J0rOVRm0duF7nt9c5MCGG2Gdus6WT9z/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC003a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUoGGr1gLj0I9Zt1ZPqszkO7z-UBuLUekbj4tOsf-GKjGcdoo8HVPIS9RkKZbvTWfEVFpRuSJ_qhuURkhzP8rP144po7AqAEO2VDtJZx0OAWF7J0rOVRm0duF7nt9c5MCGG2Gdus6WT9z/s400/Polaroid_RNC003a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244683806850960866" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Seems like a reasonable place to put a police line.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIw75yL7oNN_sHtq91HqXIYSqQFaBf7UEiC97zgPtSD0MqpmKA4gq7Q8kPBiHf6-YhL103OQxR_7SStMcqLYH8k547oSoGTljWmW7agXXtcDuJFdc-D4KJejaLfORZB_Pe5bA-N9r2hb3C/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC004a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIw75yL7oNN_sHtq91HqXIYSqQFaBf7UEiC97zgPtSD0MqpmKA4gq7Q8kPBiHf6-YhL103OQxR_7SStMcqLYH8k547oSoGTljWmW7agXXtcDuJFdc-D4KJejaLfORZB_Pe5bA-N9r2hb3C/s400/Polaroid_RNC004a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244683805774119010" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">And another in front of the Cathedral. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyNw-2AHdY4FGCDzaGrH0lske1VDvI0gnUMsM_Pa4iwLoGQEWqEUi-23v6yjs3fKJRqWQbhuJwlr2y_jlsHGnQAuLX40wsWMWmuermP2DnLQodTZe70pPBOrEfiTiSeyxFV_Ya3QGZ_b-J/s400/Polaroid_RNC002a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244683803757875682" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Arizona Delegate following the big speech.</span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-7615620502764682692008-09-04T12:04:00.001-06:002008-09-04T12:12:13.764-06:00RNC: Crowd-a-Roids<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qLioQbpuj4BDlCY_YTT4YOVqATXigVz92MSwB1esSMIHLKqWRh4xfYHyMezn9A-GCIJuJZyR0pWHI20hyphenhyphenAO3xmKSq4RX-8qO3iJHJ71J-uHIsoKoL8OaLR9aMJOwiCI18_d3k95aNumG/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qLioQbpuj4BDlCY_YTT4YOVqATXigVz92MSwB1esSMIHLKqWRh4xfYHyMezn9A-GCIJuJZyR0pWHI20hyphenhyphenAO3xmKSq4RX-8qO3iJHJ71J-uHIsoKoL8OaLR9aMJOwiCI18_d3k95aNumG/s400/Polaroid_RNC011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242229193899156194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliWMnPEvs2BFtsCQQTGFgwnFvdTodzZakx5Xo01CRdNEqWCT2USBxwcaS7F5ue2kXkm9mSSL1SwGxl27I1FRN_uP2afxNaHmC2hWYov92wuO16oRPXhP3p7EuS0Lc8mIEZ1pVQUScDa45/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliWMnPEvs2BFtsCQQTGFgwnFvdTodzZakx5Xo01CRdNEqWCT2USBxwcaS7F5ue2kXkm9mSSL1SwGxl27I1FRN_uP2afxNaHmC2hWYov92wuO16oRPXhP3p7EuS0Lc8mIEZ1pVQUScDa45/s400/Polaroid_RNC010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242229192728887810" /></a>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-66048799109423539682008-09-04T11:55:00.002-06:002008-10-14T18:45:26.414-06:00RNC: Day 3<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rKwqFXUec9OcorbD6mwSBdU7xJom0Z7_eBeYLVmzczUkOgqPEAUIG6USOAEKL-KqHY0tvCWokuL7eeagJvfN0Q5EMPXftUbpab9JazRz03JK_FrPC0VyDAGwxVnaC4qepWWCIsRpKN-W/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul0612_9-3-8.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rKwqFXUec9OcorbD6mwSBdU7xJom0Z7_eBeYLVmzczUkOgqPEAUIG6USOAEKL-KqHY0tvCWokuL7eeagJvfN0Q5EMPXftUbpab9JazRz03JK_FrPC0VyDAGwxVnaC4qepWWCIsRpKN-W/s400/RNC_StPaul0612_9-3-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242227269185470242" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Texas Delegation.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Dzic816bZwneBnW6gkpsl5h6-KLqW3F0RDSxc71ftsHR8dXiCU-2nkn1qb2yUTbgCubhS_q8jTJPB79xGNoeMTR74L8IqeGsAuAZRsoinxPlPWlJOmWJNQ4Q824dXh5a0YQbZLRnBJb6/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul0132_9-3-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Dzic816bZwneBnW6gkpsl5h6-KLqW3F0RDSxc71ftsHR8dXiCU-2nkn1qb2yUTbgCubhS_q8jTJPB79xGNoeMTR74L8IqeGsAuAZRsoinxPlPWlJOmWJNQ4Q824dXh5a0YQbZLRnBJb6/s400/RNC_StPaul0132_9-3-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242227268286865410" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Hawking The Onion in line for the convention.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2VhvRNjG5-rNkgTIG_XhLSszNNHNGEBW-euMot-2fWUQOCW2IqXef65qPwxZJycNmCI7ilLnYtVu6Ll8SwPi-KpnoDE5dI04MYZw5b9tDWp4391F7TgEbX18c1YsWabci_i2KfJu2lIy/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul0135_9-3-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2VhvRNjG5-rNkgTIG_XhLSszNNHNGEBW-euMot-2fWUQOCW2IqXef65qPwxZJycNmCI7ilLnYtVu6Ll8SwPi-KpnoDE5dI04MYZw5b9tDWp4391F7TgEbX18c1YsWabci_i2KfJu2lIy/s400/RNC_StPaul0135_9-3-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242227274952573506" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Convention Volunteers</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdwDOhA4o84jUtprd3zdJ0v607pLUBBdEqsme6z8gwK4n6011l35AJTCw58pL9TSENtrndGNMMhqvHGih-XB11DUp_XnqeWoP1W8-9jsJtMBgGhKOGsGv0kdts5B4YZP2okGLGPtpx-P6_/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul0398_9-3-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdwDOhA4o84jUtprd3zdJ0v607pLUBBdEqsme6z8gwK4n6011l35AJTCw58pL9TSENtrndGNMMhqvHGih-XB11DUp_XnqeWoP1W8-9jsJtMBgGhKOGsGv0kdts5B4YZP2okGLGPtpx-P6_/s400/RNC_StPaul0398_9-3-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242227275377663842" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The mirror under the photographers' riser.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-aqUpPobwAFFjhZdMpTxhrRIJ7ycI_vqikKU549QChYiiXwl7i4d9V4wsxB809A41JKvtDyWtB6uPF_Wbz__LKA32ShqFG4QVyPFu8hwicSmpFBMUIvbFIqgVs5Lv3go_Vx2rp1MLT9p/s1600-h/RNC_StPaul0520_9-3-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-aqUpPobwAFFjhZdMpTxhrRIJ7ycI_vqikKU549QChYiiXwl7i4d9V4wsxB809A41JKvtDyWtB6uPF_Wbz__LKA32ShqFG4QVyPFu8hwicSmpFBMUIvbFIqgVs5Lv3go_Vx2rp1MLT9p/s400/RNC_StPaul0520_9-3-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242227274874100642" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Palin.</span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-45735870989391271352008-09-03T12:04:00.002-06:002008-09-03T12:13:11.764-06:00RNC: Polaroids<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQNDcmSJpAr6VDctRFdqvHXZKAMuMY90GATtMbjufthRVgDAuFEKPC9Y_j0S5WejJFs8kjC1lKTEku9_WL9RDY8iI2wwpSs0hN38BZkQYD89JfZp3uEgWWlDUs_YLoCU6FTs51OO69Ebb/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQNDcmSJpAr6VDctRFdqvHXZKAMuMY90GATtMbjufthRVgDAuFEKPC9Y_j0S5WejJFs8kjC1lKTEku9_WL9RDY8iI2wwpSs0hN38BZkQYD89JfZp3uEgWWlDUs_YLoCU6FTs51OO69Ebb/s400/Polaroid_RNC001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241858040209182498" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Clay and Lauren Whitfield. Guests of the Florida Delegation.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32wZimeYauvnIwBH0C0aCXLiqKJjpfW5IMBRs-accNxDUpBvCALWEOlksvyWYzeZ4tGokme-vB2iV0bK4uebwYwnZuNM4mAGdwHQMCaNpYchVjRll6GAsyQ-ljCaIZl0SOCl0nQCr06Rq/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32wZimeYauvnIwBH0C0aCXLiqKJjpfW5IMBRs-accNxDUpBvCALWEOlksvyWYzeZ4tGokme-vB2iV0bK4uebwYwnZuNM4mAGdwHQMCaNpYchVjRll6GAsyQ-ljCaIZl0SOCl0nQCr06Rq/s400/Polaroid_RNC002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241858043830769042" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">WWE Wrestler, Mickie James. In attendance to promote WWE's Smack Down the Vote campaign.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHutk8-uCT2FDYHSyIz-_3lqJWJ6oUodah_LwtcURfQ2-A3DVXpwbdMD5jM_5yH8NRhu448hIOj6ptOZlXTAZ-VEDBEi0pWVKyULqgAD9nd0wqxgZ9bx2uPiUKLvWUd7glF6L-rafMyTi/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHutk8-uCT2FDYHSyIz-_3lqJWJ6oUodah_LwtcURfQ2-A3DVXpwbdMD5jM_5yH8NRhu448hIOj6ptOZlXTAZ-VEDBEi0pWVKyULqgAD9nd0wqxgZ9bx2uPiUKLvWUd7glF6L-rafMyTi/s400/Polaroid_RNC004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241858049023235538" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Texas delegate Trey Stinnett and girlfriend Paula Stag, an alternate delegate.</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYSnh7rKHz9WjphV8PPSbg5VkzJ8rZavUeaPgCaL3X8wnbT6q-x1FQDyjpVqz8AarFbcMC6QD5zvHOIlEsB6xL4gd1bq2nGnPvgHF_mKbo6dduV-kFa5vorEBHtL9ynKYMKkXxY0mWrchh/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYSnh7rKHz9WjphV8PPSbg5VkzJ8rZavUeaPgCaL3X8wnbT6q-x1FQDyjpVqz8AarFbcMC6QD5zvHOIlEsB6xL4gd1bq2nGnPvgHF_mKbo6dduV-kFa5vorEBHtL9ynKYMKkXxY0mWrchh/s400/Polaroid_RNC003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241858050118518082" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Miss Texas 2008, Rebecca Robinson. Guest of the Texas Delegation.</span></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Publish Post</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFe7kwwRx4AWV3AU0dC7lJzEzuV0PnxOEQekTWNV15lbpiSH1bz1l_n73rFHE4bsDhm8apduWXiXZgOrwAGjcs8cmW6rWq-2REukjrAG38Ab2UNXhOrueSAz3dwaUjBcGZm4M9qxfN_wA/s1600-h/Polaroid_RNC005.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFe7kwwRx4AWV3AU0dC7lJzEzuV0PnxOEQekTWNV15lbpiSH1bz1l_n73rFHE4bsDhm8apduWXiXZgOrwAGjcs8cmW6rWq-2REukjrAG38Ab2UNXhOrueSAz3dwaUjBcGZm4M9qxfN_wA/s400/Polaroid_RNC005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241858052219273042" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Alabama delegate Hal Pierce.</span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-65098477989541352272008-09-01T16:14:00.006-06:002008-09-02T00:03:48.894-06:00DNC to RNC: The Divide<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvSdVyoRCQYMDpWjpRlA5yw-E30nyto5dJaTOyeAbeY5Q_B4lT1Sc9kzPPKevP_i26wWixYChmtsrmAGHEYHpXLaxelp7-aq57u1d0TIw9mi4gci2ItTE1uYmN57niJ6BIxX19H_vG5Ul2/s1600-h/DNC_Denver3201_8-28-8.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihshP7P1L2ng-AdgcbTroiRTdpPmsx04xCPR-yTA_ra-rg-BIZFdOeQ4BsULeU-DIQBNeapW6HMwcMnmkamd_rZaQZA934soMyUOA6VyJs8fxZFiytuAyiTgI5Yf6HrimXcMQmHIlOV1LR/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2530_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihshP7P1L2ng-AdgcbTroiRTdpPmsx04xCPR-yTA_ra-rg-BIZFdOeQ4BsULeU-DIQBNeapW6HMwcMnmkamd_rZaQZA934soMyUOA6VyJs8fxZFiytuAyiTgI5Yf6HrimXcMQmHIlOV1LR/s400/DNC_Denver2530_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241186882085780786" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Travelling through middle America is a lot less bleak than it's usually made out to be. The small towns blow by under the old mercury vapor street lights, cobblestone main streets, neon motels, and a slower life is always as appealing as it is quiet. On this particular trip, the heartland is more than a place; It is the electoral connective tissue between the Democrats and the Republicans. A hopscotch of Red-State-Blue-State where life goes on as usual. The sheep sleep safely in the yard and the church keeps a light on its cross long after the town has faded away with the sunset.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7rrsNXCy7JQeiDMmXxeWyqaF11IzsIn-K_bqpssci5FqEvVBnSDJCW0HhZI6dqwgBrTEWLXaoD6LpwKja6rqzGJMRg-wURIuE8AsZcdZUQgHzsd1YgbslND_mKGY8nyOUtE_hMNDJIiX/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2621_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh7rrsNXCy7JQeiDMmXxeWyqaF11IzsIn-K_bqpssci5FqEvVBnSDJCW0HhZI6dqwgBrTEWLXaoD6LpwKja6rqzGJMRg-wURIuE8AsZcdZUQgHzsd1YgbslND_mKGY8nyOUtE_hMNDJIiX/s400/DNC_Denver2621_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241186885512102402" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sheep outside Cope, Colorado.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdGU2V1HZzWPfRSEGImT1Rd3xXFLYMr41iygKMqC_iaM-zeFrvNC-qXKFobZR0lTB2XAdsHBM2lpgaPkTuFJWabiWbTyKsZbVTtTzOiSTdxkuvxGhFQoXvQJ3jPlhNhvrqNSWq81LjNqK/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2692_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdGU2V1HZzWPfRSEGImT1Rd3xXFLYMr41iygKMqC_iaM-zeFrvNC-qXKFobZR0lTB2XAdsHBM2lpgaPkTuFJWabiWbTyKsZbVTtTzOiSTdxkuvxGhFQoXvQJ3jPlhNhvrqNSWq81LjNqK/s400/DNC_Denver2692_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241186887261825138" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Grandma's Basement</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Xl-SeJUtw7p9MrE3K3rs-9QsbpVv9_jpsgx2uQwnohh_elIf8ynbTSVpCwx_oyuV5NxGK0cRZE7EdXV8DfxAOnhdI8RdASSMLyUbpLDmkCqCOoSaetFXIn7YgGhadhoIxnoRIKDrMaU1/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2742_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Xl-SeJUtw7p9MrE3K3rs-9QsbpVv9_jpsgx2uQwnohh_elIf8ynbTSVpCwx_oyuV5NxGK0cRZE7EdXV8DfxAOnhdI8RdASSMLyUbpLDmkCqCOoSaetFXIn7YgGhadhoIxnoRIKDrMaU1/s400/DNC_Denver2742_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241186889580792706" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nursing home. Red Cloud Nebraska.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvKU2F5kYAqGf3XqxNM3ypjNNLiK1yR-9JX6r_qxKRZBsrBh-vSlTrLgFjidX-ExphJhnqKy_L_lqUFH6CyfyEctWwstTD4aqSWm_f5ACSTFu7B1YBQ8Uf-4GnS-b2sqR48FxsDECaMZ8/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2758_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvKU2F5kYAqGf3XqxNM3ypjNNLiK1yR-9JX6r_qxKRZBsrBh-vSlTrLgFjidX-ExphJhnqKy_L_lqUFH6CyfyEctWwstTD4aqSWm_f5ACSTFu7B1YBQ8Uf-4GnS-b2sqR48FxsDECaMZ8/s400/DNC_Denver2758_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241186890517959906" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A Mural of Chief Red Cloud & the U.S. Capitol in a Western Wear Store.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeA57ds88dlcaunt2WQU1gqZmt6KJMkmKgnKBX27Or6wyEsUWbD775VPnyKsXWzA1nhCHFOt2N0ugrrkV7KngWTcT60cJIyM3Qrl8LR8RE6NhPWIbVrl4sqooQT2Npoz4Ecq3RwKEHKqK4/s1600-h/DNC_Denver3335_8-28-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeA57ds88dlcaunt2WQU1gqZmt6KJMkmKgnKBX27Or6wyEsUWbD775VPnyKsXWzA1nhCHFOt2N0ugrrkV7KngWTcT60cJIyM3Qrl8LR8RE6NhPWIbVrl4sqooQT2Npoz4Ecq3RwKEHKqK4/s400/DNC_Denver3335_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241187289529030978" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Crosses. Northern Iowa.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvSdVyoRCQYMDpWjpRlA5yw-E30nyto5dJaTOyeAbeY5Q_B4lT1Sc9kzPPKevP_i26wWixYChmtsrmAGHEYHpXLaxelp7-aq57u1d0TIw9mi4gci2ItTE1uYmN57niJ6BIxX19H_vG5Ul2/s400/DNC_Denver3201_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241187287782868130" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Road Kill Raccoon.</span></span></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQxwudRmukE__X5IKDBhX6sDEDIfAPXzTV5hUE0m4dPmh1Xdl5xSMCEdtmJnvKoVx7DbhGGLPcDkkqmSKeI9GecZdXLAT_t5PnvQVM6dC5o_vVodmZyq3Fzt_IoBzaCHlN-ieSzlGOAlf/s1600-h/DNC_Denver3414_8-28-8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQxwudRmukE__X5IKDBhX6sDEDIfAPXzTV5hUE0m4dPmh1Xdl5xSMCEdtmJnvKoVx7DbhGGLPcDkkqmSKeI9GecZdXLAT_t5PnvQVM6dC5o_vVodmZyq3Fzt_IoBzaCHlN-ieSzlGOAlf/s400/DNC_Denver3414_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241187290721972914" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Plywood Cornfield Art. Northern Iowa.</span></span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-64253245548525741942008-08-31T22:35:00.000-06:002008-08-31T22:36:44.037-06:00Here in Minneapolis<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">And it's quiet. Let's see how the next four days go. </span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-6877275215496151762008-08-31T19:17:00.004-06:002008-08-31T19:29:42.418-06:00DNC: Acceptance<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5JNWmHrUwROBgUII-9ooyVTIutY0t3GYv9jKuwky-2bb6oJmcewMXnnQbujN5SqL5L7homp4nlkGuKM8EjKXxXY9-flxsepKWcYtdcn11Jof2bdlzIoqYemPn7FWFGdwWGgnhCLfsA2m/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2435_8-28-8.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjGFhXSYOr4soV6nykZ8NnObPsDM0fXbG_I5HIDktsTivwcJqLOYQH086oSmS8YxqFjQGgVPcwZ-jZlYylSMCxyt08X5cfIvkXZHObSsHb_yy2jyVtHLNOx0DmT0aahTqJjNMJTfnI6om/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2399_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjGFhXSYOr4soV6nykZ8NnObPsDM0fXbG_I5HIDktsTivwcJqLOYQH086oSmS8YxqFjQGgVPcwZ-jZlYylSMCxyt08X5cfIvkXZHObSsHb_yy2jyVtHLNOx0DmT0aahTqJjNMJTfnI6om/s400/DNC_Denver2399_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240856355649572706" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Spent most of the acceptance trying for the Polaroid in the previous post. The remainder of the photos are split between standard, tight shots of Obama and the crowd behind me watching. Both my knees ended up pretty swollen at the end of the day after hiding from the Fire Marshall who was busy kicking press out of the aisles and into the distant stadium --not good for shooting Polaroid (they don't make long lenses for those things). Ended up crouching inside of a crowd of friendly delegates for two hours until the start of the speech when it was easier to sneak back out and down to the stage. These silly games we play with each other.</span><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hiazUaXInIWFlR5sWh06izvHja3zqI9FG5C50zA1q9_wPc3_XOZ5wmoOZN2xYrq1lkbjbCAxytX8SbVauvCAg1SsrQuTdPdupdeHmONd87KXxvFcJ7DP3c-xronvzW7eoBRtrlOmNT4y/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2377_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hiazUaXInIWFlR5sWh06izvHja3zqI9FG5C50zA1q9_wPc3_XOZ5wmoOZN2xYrq1lkbjbCAxytX8SbVauvCAg1SsrQuTdPdupdeHmONd87KXxvFcJ7DP3c-xronvzW7eoBRtrlOmNT4y/s400/DNC_Denver2377_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240856356330229634" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcsLfZ_fObSuA9nep_SwCVnhjgP9ybgznZniDoRjHmSNS7IL6obutyRbVkSMB3hoIpY89p-jvKAktmUYlbRkXc1xt2ry7sNq7teVLu4478HNNIV2vSAieJtY7IyzwwxTpaXanz6MXad4ue/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2032_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcsLfZ_fObSuA9nep_SwCVnhjgP9ybgznZniDoRjHmSNS7IL6obutyRbVkSMB3hoIpY89p-jvKAktmUYlbRkXc1xt2ry7sNq7teVLu4478HNNIV2vSAieJtY7IyzwwxTpaXanz6MXad4ue/s400/DNC_Denver2032_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240856358202970018" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAOwevkzjJ3JZKLi1WoatAPT7HLcZLhDFOb0kwp4lypDI8qeRzrSjdXmhxkvtWFYinVq2SBM-adY6unSAlvaBbvJ2TcQbg090gKRlLB61Oa4bWFTnk1w_aN7kG5daCEvXa6dYI94yyuam/s1600-h/DNC_Denver1993_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAOwevkzjJ3JZKLi1WoatAPT7HLcZLhDFOb0kwp4lypDI8qeRzrSjdXmhxkvtWFYinVq2SBM-adY6unSAlvaBbvJ2TcQbg090gKRlLB61Oa4bWFTnk1w_aN7kG5daCEvXa6dYI94yyuam/s400/DNC_Denver1993_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240856364839824018" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5JNWmHrUwROBgUII-9ooyVTIutY0t3GYv9jKuwky-2bb6oJmcewMXnnQbujN5SqL5L7homp4nlkGuKM8EjKXxXY9-flxsepKWcYtdcn11Jof2bdlzIoqYemPn7FWFGdwWGgnhCLfsA2m/s400/DNC_Denver2435_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240856506901836658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAGTXZgGmEfjOEVKXrFcmw3CAKG0_nyovwdeVc_ix26nTqf6IYrMpSVKbbmzLLICEFozgXL5ipF6RdvSE0N55Ne-UPF4fKb0Jzk7sw158XHJ5jZ-PHsa4c-vQtKRCFGtaWSbMTXLtBCvi/s1600-h/DNC_Denver2462_8-28-8.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAGTXZgGmEfjOEVKXrFcmw3CAKG0_nyovwdeVc_ix26nTqf6IYrMpSVKbbmzLLICEFozgXL5ipF6RdvSE0N55Ne-UPF4fKb0Jzk7sw158XHJ5jZ-PHsa4c-vQtKRCFGtaWSbMTXLtBCvi/s400/DNC_Denver2462_8-28-8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240856362959179394" /></a><br /></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-66267907437152557282008-08-29T15:54:00.002-06:002008-08-29T15:57:02.607-06:00RNC-Bound<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Tonight starts the first leg in three days of meandering across middle-America with fellow photographer Luceo <a href="http://luceoimages.com">David Walter Banks</a> towards the RNC. Looks like the first few states will be Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. Hopefully we won't get to distracted with the in-between; Monday in Minneapolis is promising to be a pretty exciting day. </span>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904765140403043833.post-22570590024543653272008-08-29T15:07:00.002-06:002008-08-29T15:50:46.393-06:00DNC: Polaroid Acceptance<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_EJ5tcfXfjAmt9ZL-gDAybJ_Pa_usZBKNA8qCUvHq1Lxa9iA16orp51ve5NnEil2gqMSeF0Bk92GXVuzpG56uf7QMm1aLjxx4W7afNdaOZ8sZlgrDgAzZB8twiQBhKj3MuLIKd1gBNMq1/s1600-h/Polaroid_DNC009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_EJ5tcfXfjAmt9ZL-gDAybJ_Pa_usZBKNA8qCUvHq1Lxa9iA16orp51ve5NnEil2gqMSeF0Bk92GXVuzpG56uf7QMm1aLjxx4W7afNdaOZ8sZlgrDgAzZB8twiQBhKj3MuLIKd1gBNMq1/s400/Polaroid_DNC009.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240054164777309986" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Obama & Biden following Obama's acceptance of his party's nomination.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4z0OwkPL_Jcb0LuY1SFr69sjrWKAbW-IScLSGhMYS18vOgwHSOxSJ_hyphenhyphenWE9ISXi19h6crLFB5vAM3ZHoO64woWVPxQ6IzROdp4TNltP_UVdi-RGHvKYZ_TIn0fT4HXA25_sHo3NPmEfLk/s1600-h/Polaroid_DNC011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4z0OwkPL_Jcb0LuY1SFr69sjrWKAbW-IScLSGhMYS18vOgwHSOxSJ_hyphenhyphenWE9ISXi19h6crLFB5vAM3ZHoO64woWVPxQ6IzROdp4TNltP_UVdi-RGHvKYZ_TIn0fT4HXA25_sHo3NPmEfLk/s400/Polaroid_DNC011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240054168188618418" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Colorado Governor Bill Ritter during Obama's acceptance of his party's nomination.</span></div>Matt Slabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09691672292507274446noreply@blogger.com0