Well I know karate, Voodoo too

July 1, 2008

I’ve been at the HL for a very long time. This is what I consider a true day in the life of a photojournalist to be like.

I woke up at 6 in Louisville and drove straight to Lexington. From there I began to find all of my goods for the day, batteries, cameras, and chargers. I threw my two Mark II batteries on the juice and waited. Around 8 I headed over to the HL. I juiced myself with some Coffea. I arrived at the airport at 9:30 for my 10 o’clock assignment.

I flew in a plane with kids who didn’t have their drivers license. It was a great assignment. I ate Sonic. I didn’t move from a computer chair for five hours. I put up a decent video. I took my video camera to another assignment. Shot video of beer. Came back. Edited another 45 minutes of video. Finished that video. And now it’s really late and I have an assignment at 10 am.

This is no small paper, and I can’t imagine the stress some of those smaller production photographers go through shooting 6 print assignments in a day. But I promise you that two video assignments carries the weight of shooting four deadline assignments for print any day (both of my videos were for daily). I’ve been cranking for 14 hours for the paper. And honestly, it feels good. It feels like the Kernel.

And it was fun.

I needed it. I had forgotten how much I liked doing the video. I forgot how much I like telling stories.

This makes me want to help with a project I learned about this weekend even more. And it gave me even more confidence to do it.

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Posted by Brad Luttrell | Filed Under Blog

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