What if the kids were in charge of Thanksgiving dinner?

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Ever wonder what Thanksgiving dinner would be like if kids were in charge? We did. So we asked the students in Tara Beeler's first-grade class at George O. Barr Elementary School in Silvis, Ill., for their thoughts on the upcoming holiday.

Luke's eye

Thursday morning I had the pleasure of covering the Quad City Arts Festival of Trees Santa's Special Stars event. The program allows special needs children and adults to attend the festival before it is open to the public. I didn't really have any plans to shoot video but I couldn't resist after I arrived on the scene. The event was well worth the extra effort on a very busy Thursday. Actually because I had so much to do I wasn't able to finish cutting and editing the project until I got home from work. The photo, left, is of little Luke, the son of Beth Behrends the event's co-chair. He gave me the 'celebrity treatment' by blocking my camera's view of him but luckily his eye peeked out between his little fingers. This isn't a photo that would ever make it into the paper - too different - but I still love it. Luke is a 2-year-old special needs child you can't help but love. Here is the video from the event.

Nice Photo... of the wrong team

There's a first time for everything and today was my first time photographing a swim meet. I've photographed practices before, for the fun of it, but never an actual meet. So, needless to say, the pressure was on (my own pressure no one was really pressuring me). I love new challenges, so I really enjoyed it. The most difficult part was remembering who was in what lane, who was racing what, what was what, and when I photographed what. I had the "heat sheet" all marked up with my frame numbers next to names. Next to learning how to keep up with names I was also battling the nasty pool lights. Who decided that all indoor High School sports lighting has to stink?

My best action photograph of the night was of the wrong team. I don't even know who it is, thought it was Moline for a couple of races, but it's still a decent photo.
- the intern no more, Steph

Crystal's Eye is online

We wanted to let all our readers know about the new photo blog being authored by former Dispatch/Argus photo intern Crystal Logiudice - Crystal's Eye. Crystal is one of the great young sports photographers in the United States and you will want to get on the bandwagon now before all the seats are full.

Looking for a Scare

Recently, I made a video with one of our writers, Laura Anderson. She's reviewing some haunted houses in the QC and we decided to take on Terror at Skellington Manor in Rock Island. I had so much footage that it was difficult to edit it down to two minutes! Also, the whole experience was so enjoyable that I decided to add commentary to the video. You can watch the it without my horrible humor on www.qconline.com/multimedia
-stephanie

Making Mugs Fun!

Staff writer Laura Anderson as she reviews local haunted houses.
Posted by Steph

Polaroid is back

I though this announcement was well worth posting in this forum. The rise of digital photography pushed Polaroid to the curb but it seems some enterprising people have decided to bring it back from the dead.

I think that despite the current dominance of digital photography in the consumer and professional photography markets I think there is still a little niche available for the new Polaroid to succeed. Heck there are scores of young artists all over the place dying to get there hands on this product to create unique projects. A new Polaroid might just be on my Christmas list this year.

http://www.wordsaboutthings.co.uk/polaroid-film-back-frm-the-dead/