Sylvan beach amusement park

Sarina Leonard, 15 of Rome Free Academy points out the boats and other objects on the water to her 4-year-old neice Ashanti Weather during some free time at Sylvan Beach on Saturday, April 29, 2006.

Joey Brownell, 5 waits as his mother Barb Brownell purchases tickets from Gail Mumford for the first day of the Sylvan Beach amusement park on Saturday, April 29, 2006.

Chittenango High School Juniors Eric Proper, 17 and Jason Stucker, 16 were the first to ride on the Scrambler at opening day of the Sylvan Beach amusement park on Saturday, April 29, 2006.

Gauge Stevens, 5 smiles as he rides with Thomas Wallace, while in the background 23-month-old Declan McCarthey holds on as his father Darin McCarthey steers the bumper car on the first day of the Sylvan Beach amusement park on Saturday, April 29, 2006.

Owen Lalak, 3 takes a mouthful of a piece of fried dough covered in chocolate and sprinkles while his dad Chris Lalak holds his plate during the first day of the Sylvan Beach amusement park on Saturday, April 29, 2006.

ASIA Night 2006

Fish hatchery numero dos

Assistant manager Carl Rathje wataches an intern from Morrisville state, Chris Perrah, 22 as he uses a tube to transport the fry to a container on a boat. The boat is then driven to the middle of the lake where they restock the fry into Oneida Lake.

A couple days old walleye fry sit in the tank waiting to be either raised as stock, released into Oneida Lake, or transported to surrounding warters at the Oneida fish hatchery in Constantia.

Rickey Bryant, who has been working 26 years at the Walleye hatchery on Oneida Lake and intern, Chris Perrah, 22, from Morrisville State ride out on the boat to the middle of the lake where they restocked the fry into Oneida Lake.

Chris Perrah, 22 a renewable resources intern from Morrisville State takes pictures of the pipe that transport the fry from the container holding the fry into the middle of Oneida Lake.

Rickey Bryant, who has been working 26 years at the Walleye hatchery on Oneida Lake watches intern, Chris Perrah, 22, from Morrisville State pour water into the container the fry are in so that they are flushed out into the middle of Oneida Lake.

Dentures!

I hate photo ill cuz I'm awful at photoshop!

Oh and how did I find dentures? I drove to Jeffrey Stannard B DDS, on E. Genesee and just pretty much asked if I could borrow them for Thursday. The agreed. In exchange I left them a $100 deposit, in case I damaged or forgot to return them! :)


Which one do you like better? Gray or black?

Slight pause

School work is temporarily killing me so theres gonna be a bit of a sporatic posting month for the time being...

Fire Training photo story

This was a photo stor I did during summer 2005 and I never did post it.

Immigrant rally

Heres a few shots from the small immigration rally that was held in Syracuse.

Grace Luft, 15 a sophomore in Manlius Pebble Hill school holds a sign that reads "Nigun ser Humano es illegal" which mean "no human is illegal" while Jessica Maxwell, 30 from the Peace Council watches Becky Johnson, 25 draw a fist on her poster board. The marchers were preparing signs before the march where they left from the Spanish Action League and ended up at the federal building downtown where they had speakers from the Spanish Action League, Onondaga Migrant Farm Worker's Coalition, Labor religion coalition, Syracuse Peace Council, Labor Federation, Islamic society of CNYand the Alliance Network.

Andy Mager (center) holds a a sign with Jaime Becker (2nd left), 16 of Cazenovia High School that reads, "No human being is illegal!" and underneath as well as behind reads the words "Nigun ser Humano es eilegal" on a sign held by Grace Luft, 15 a sophomore in Manlius Pebble Hill school. The marchers left from the Spanish Action League and marched to the federal building downtown where they had speakers from the Spanish Action League, Onondaga Migrant Farm Worker's Coalition, Labor religion coalition, Syracuse Peace Council, Labor Federation, Islamic society of CNYand the Alliance Network.

Callin my bluff?

Yeah I know nothing about poker! Sowie to my few viewers... no photographer of the day recently and for a while.... I've been too tired by the end of the day for one.

Matt Moyer. Hmm he's a photoj and soc minor from Syracuse... and he went to high school in the area... BUT why have I not heard of him until now?! I stumbled upon an article on The Post Standard website about a fundraiser for his Iraqi fixer who got kidnapped and murdered, But I wonder why he made a fundraiser at his high school and yet we at the college don't know anything about it, or haven't heard much about anyone. Kinda sad actually.

More superman!

Hey you gotta make use of the rental suit right?!

Super heroes!

Yay for passionate journalist

Speaker Lisa Ling. She was on Channel 1, The View, and now National Geographic's Discover channel. Very good speaker.

You scream, I scream...

Eugene Richards. He is the newest member of VII. Very impressive work, I really wanna find some of his books.... speaking of which I need to see what Bird Library has in term of photo books. Ice cream truck sing your sweet melody to me!

Easter egg hunting!

Today was a pretty fun day, got to shoot an easter egg hunt which lasted a whole 2 minutes! lol that stuff is hectic!

Charles Moore. Impressed. He covered the Civil Rights movement, MLK and other such events.

Scoping out for the prize egg, Mike Gagliardi, 8 of Auburn looks in the trees and other possible places where the special eggs may be hidden. Over five thousand eggs were scattered around Hoopes Park by the Owasco-Fleming Kiwanis Club on Saturday, April 15, 2006.

Lahtinah Welch, 22 and her son Eliijah Welch, 2 sort out the plastic eggs and candy after the easter egg hunt. This is Elijah's first Easter egg hunt at the park. Over five thousand eggs were scattered around Hoopes Park by the Owasco-Fleming Kiwanis Club on Saturday, April 15, 2006.

Full moon

Busy week I guess... so this busy slacker has no photog for yall today. Lo siento.

I want to be a documentary photographer of Asian and Asian American issues.

Venting on the unjust society of America... So I'm tired of seeing this stuff and just sitting back. I had to write a paper on a lecture review and in it I realized that there are things just because I am Asian that I am already at a disadvantage. "So now I'm not gonna sit quietly... or rather type quietly. I really do want to make a difference. Starting with... at the Daily Orange, the student run paper here, there is a comic called "Agent Orange", which is what I can get from it a comic about cell phones.

For many people out there who don't know, Agent Orange (a link that spares you from the images) was a defoliant used by the US military to kill trees so that they can destroy hiding places for the enemy during the Vietnam War. They used it for 10 years, 61' to 71' and then realized that it was harmful to humans.

To this day, 3rd generation kids are still feeling the effects of the toxin. Disfiguration, missing body parts, mental retardation, cancers and much more... and the kicker of couse is that the USA refuses to pay any compensation to the millions of Vietnamese people who they have exposed to the "most toxic chemical discovered so far. There many many more issues that I could name off the top of my head... but doubting that anyone really reads this I will spare you.

Philip Jones Griffiths. Again because he did a story on Agent Orange. Very powerful images, I highly suggest you look at them.

Amnat Hong-Chittaphong was a member of ASIA and was here during the Denny's incident... if you dont know about it... look it up.

Sea of green.

Sudharak Olwe. Although I can't find it, he has this picture of a baby that was tossed away in the trash. It was a part a series he did on trash in India.

Red in a sea of green.

Home cooking

Balazs Gardi. Alexia Foundation's winner for this year in the professional division.

Dinner!

Fish Hatchery!

I love fishermen!!! I dunno, it's something about the blue water, the blue sky, and just a person resting peacefully... doing something they enjoy... for fun... for income... ( I kinda cheated... I have a pic of the day, but this is much better!) I will be returning in 3 weeks to get the lil eggs hatching! yay!

Oh and if you feel like being an editor... help me narrow this one down... I've got a couple of images that show the same thing!

Pep Bonet. I read an article that he wrote for On Campus the photography magazine for students. He talks about freelancing and doing projects with NGOs. It makes me want to freelance even more. I'm not sure that I even want to work for a paper anymore. I've very concern and interesting in people in health and social situations. I've have recently been looking through lists of NGOs and have found a few that I like, but then I run into the problem of, how do I even begin to ask someone if I can shoot for their NGO? Am I even remotely qualified? And a gazillion more questions... Oh and Bonet's work just gave me chills the whole time I was looking at them... it just makes you look at the scenes and people depicted and shows you how they really live and how life really is for them...

Bill Evans hands over a net full of Walleye fish to Rickey Bryant as Bruce Ryan is in the back grabbing more from the nets that had been placed on Oneida Lake. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

Bill Evans hands over a net full of Walleye fish to Rickey Bryant as Bruce Ryan is in the back grabbing more from the nets that had been placed earlier in the week on Oneida Lake. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

(left to right) Mike Dixon and Bill Schara grab a netful of fish from the net trap set on Oneida Lake earlier in the week. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

Bill Schara nets a female Walleye for Bill Evans during to strip so that they can start the spawning process. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

Students from SUNY at Coblerskill watch as Bill Evans on the left is stripping the eggs of the female Walleye, while directly across from him Bruce Ryan is stripping the male and between them B.J. Woodworth is stirring and keeping them wet so that they don't stick together. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

Bill Evans on the left is stripping the eggs of the female Walleye, while directly across from him Bruce Ryan is stripping the male and between them B.J. Woodworth is stirring and keeping them wet so that they don't stick together. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

Ken Dutcher and Brett Yerdon are stirring the eggs so that they don't stick together while the rest of the people are helping strip the eggs and sperms in the background. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

(center) Ken Dutcher watches as Ron Tanner places a hatching jar filled with about 450,000 eggs to be incubated for the next three weeks when they are expected to hatch. The hatchery pulled in all their nets today and started to strip the Walleye fish of their eggs and sperms to start the hatching process at the Oneida Lake hatchery.

Yesterday's post... a day later... again

Hey look a bar!

La di da di DA!

Nevada Wier. Fishermen yay! Shes def has that geographic travel feel... which she is a geo photog anyways... but its some good stuff.

I love my 20mm!!!

R.I.P.

Thomas James Abercrombie. (1930-2006) He was a National Geographic photographer, to me his style is very much like beautiful postcards. "During my some 40 years roaming the planet for National Geographic I enjoyed many “special destinations”—Afghanistan, Easter Island, Beirut. Sadly, many have suffered from war and revolution and tourist buses." It is sad that when you think of Afghanistan you see war town villages and what not in your head, not of the images that he has captured of a beautiful foreign place.

Anticipate it.

Tessa has the overnite shift, and I'm gonna pull an all niter... least try to. My picture will try to be... fighting off sleep... of Tessa or Vaughn.

They didn't get quite as tired as I wanted them to... actually I was the one that took a nap at 5 am. But on the way out to head home at 7 am the light shining into food.com was amazing golden and pretty... and I left my camera in the lab... I was way to exhausted to run for it... but just seeing it that morning was pretty.

Syracuse University Art Collection. I stopped by on my walk home because I kept seeing the sign with W. Eugene Smith's name on it. They have a kinda gallery inside of Schaffer. My fave Smith prints were towards the end of the International Nickel Plant, especially the men working. Some of the other stuff that they had were photographers Bernice Abbott and Barbara Morgan, painter John Sloan, Pablo Picasso and Norman Rockwell.

Also beside the room is the MFA 2006 exhibit going on. I was really impressed by their stuff and would recommend you drop in and have a look. My fave is Mark Mcleod project and Rebecca White's pictures.

I smell like fish.

Sooo I woke up early and drove out to the fish hatchery on Oneida lake and stayed with the fellas there until about 1. Twas very fun. I was drench until one of the guys lent me a pair of pants. I smelt like fish for the whole day... till I finally got home and shower... that was after my photo shoot in the studio and a marketing meeting. Overall a fun and eventful day. Forgetful too, I left my CF card at work. So no fishing pics today, I wanna have em all together. And I'm gonna go out to the hatchery in about 3 weeks when they start hatching.

Roy Caretozzolo. Street photographer. kinda interesting

Teasing weather

Mostly just computer work today. But if the weather is great tomorrow, which it is expected to rain, I will be waking up wee early to drive about 45 mins out to photograph these guys pulling in fish from their nets. Ohh how I really love photographing fishermen! :)

Lazy a bit, so no photog for yesterday's entry.

David Butow. Oh he won NPPA's best of photojournalism photo story 2005. I noticed his name this week during msnbc's pictures of the week. His was of a row of mirrors hanging on a wall reflecting the poeple as they walked by.

Maplely!

Went to a maple festival... yummy maple.