Ryan Murphy

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

Tomorrow is election day! I'm working the polls as a poll observer. This will be the first time I'm actually working at a polling place. I will be taking notes on what's happening and signing people up for absentee ballots for the April 2009 election. I'm brining my video camera just in case but I'm hoping I won't have to use it since I'm actually not allowed to.

On a side note, we've only had Obama supporters come to our door the past few weeks. They mainly want to get people to vote early, which we already did last week. It's going to be a busy few days as I don't think things will be decided until at least Wednesday sometime (if we're lucky).

Go vote and go Obama!