Thursday, I received a frantic phone call from my accountant. No I was not about to be audited. She was in charge of the 2006 Illinois Majorette competition and she had just fired their photographer! She was having no luck finding a replacement and wanted to know if I could help find someone.
With a light schedule for Sunday, we talked about it and thought that I could do it. After several phone calls to my lab, I had my packages and prices set. Then it was a quick run upto Libertyville to get a special backdrop used for dances. There were other logistics to worry about. All too soon it was Sunday morning and I was off to the Wooddale recreation complex.
I photographed all day. As flash photography is not allowed during the competition, I was the only one able to get any good photos. Who knew there was actually a competition for majorettes! Some of the ladies were as young as 5 and as old as 18. In one of the divisions, the recently crowned World Champion was competing! I can only imagine how much these ladies practice to get so good.
Later, I packed everything up and rushed to Stone Prairie for Laura and Matt’s engagement session. They are getting married this August at Starved Rock. We took some pretty cool engagement photos. I had my laptop with me, so we previewed the photos right there!
Today, I went along on Meghan’s last field trip of the year to the nature center. It was a good thing I brought my camera because Miss Sullivan didn’t have hers. Miss Sullivan is a farm girl and really knows the ways of Mother Nature. On each of the three field trips we’ve taken I’ve learned something new. Today we saw raccoons sleeping in the trees. I got some neat shots of the sleeping raccoons.
I took Monday off to spend the afternoon with Meghan and Mathew. You are just going to have to wait until later in the week to see some of the photos I’ve taken since Sunday.
