Ryan Murphy

Piper had her first shot this week and also one oral vaccine. There was much screaming when the needle went in but she soon recovered and forgot all about it!

So last week, right before the election, I had a chance to shoot a model at the capitol in Madison. My Flickr group got together and we all chipped in for someone we could shoot. Unfortunately I only got to shoot a few frames of her. It ended up conflicting with my election training since the models were late. Surprisingly, I did get a few usable shots of her. Looks like we'll be doing this again soon if we can find some studio space. Let me know what you think.

This was taken with my new Canon 50mm F1.4 lens. I'm loving it. I really wished I had a decent zoom on this day but I think the results were good. I've made things work for this long without one :)

Congrats, good sir.

Just a few thoughts on my day:

I started out the day as a Poll Observer but that quickly changed. We were a bit overstaffed and I was in a position to help out so I got 'deputized' as an Election Official. The guy who I replaced took a sit down job registering people instead. He was having trouble keeping up with directing people and I was running at full speed and ready to get my hands dirty. Turned out to be a perfect day to vote and I was super pumped all day. Best election experience I've had to date. Now I'm just hoping Obama wins and watching CNN.com's live election coverage.

Fingers crossed