Life has been busy of late. The next few months as the school year closes (work) and my schoolwork (graduate work) ramps up, I will have a couple of photography gigs, personal projects, kids in spring sports and more…. but these are the days we’ll reflect back upon….. the hard achievements to be earned and family memories to build.
Still, it’s nice to grab a few moments to yourself.
Sure, I have considered sending my children to St. George’s in Newport – boarding and all….even if it’s $61,550 a year. According to them, they are only a high school, but I’m pushing hard to have them take early registrants. Regardless, I think we got a solid discount playing at their rink today….
While we’re still a few years away from pondering the crushing debt-load of such a venture, we are preparing to journey back into travel hockey as Lincoln is now finishing up YEAR 5 on trying to be the next Bobby Orr. Yes, he has a long way to go, but he has been perfecting his post-goal celebrations and fist-pumps.
Switching over to the Jr. Ram’s house league this year was a nice change of pace and slowed things down this year to allow Lincoln to see how he want to proceed at his young age. With the volunteer coaches and great teammates, he is looking forward to trying out for next year’s Jr. Rams Mites travel team and beyond. We’ll be there to support him and I’ll have my camera ready to capture him and his teammates!
The next two weeks brings the end of the season and tryouts, but this past weekend brought some fun scrimmages and practices.
Enjoy! (Parents who want the full-sized files, please message me on Facebook (“Keith Mercado Lazarski) or email me at keith@merskiphotography.com
I love Teslas. The Tesla 3 is a car that may actually be a practical car for my long commute in the future, but for this shoot, it was simply fun to play with the lighting and with the gray color of the car, I thought it would be badass to add the red accenting and experiment with aerial spotlighting from about 45′ above. It worked out fairly well but I would have liked a better background to work with. (It was at a garage for detailing “Inside-Out Detailing in North Smithfield, RI” and not a lot of open space).
Ideally, I would have liked an open field, starry sky or city-scape for this kind of shot, but you have to work with what you got and I didn’t want to over-Photoshop and drop the car into the scenary artificially.
There are things I would do differently next time, but mainly, I would choose to do the next shoot when there’s not a 0° windchill as it definitely rushed the shooting process.
Shoutout to Brad and Inside-Out Detailing for the opportunity to play!
Then end of another year!
It’s been a success in some ways and very quiet in others. I was not able to accomplish much of the photography goals that I had for myself. I keep a small notebook with me and doodle down ideas that pop in for projects and I literally have not completed a single one of them this year. Family takes up a lot of time!
While I am still able to shoot some shots that I enjoy (like the ones included here) the ones I want to do are more involved and require much more time to set up and execute. My normal excursions usually last about an hour or two and most of the projects I have would be overnight….and when you have a family and a full-time job, some things have to wait, but not forever….
The winter months are where I am able to do a bit more, so hopefully I can crank out a project or two over the next couple of months….for now, enjoy captures from the last couple nights.
I was out this morning hoping to capture a sunrise with breaking clouds/fog, but it didn’t pan out the way I wanted. As I was sitting at the wall in Narragansett, several surfers arrived to take on the morning waves. I wish I had my GoPro or a water case for my big camera, I would have waded in. It was too misty for the drone, otherwise I would have been there for a while.
Almost a dozen surfers were enjoying the relatively mild late-fall surf.
The night and darkness do not typically stop my cameras from hunting down shots, however, twilight has been a challenge as the day’s other responsibilities have prevented me from going out.
This morning was focused on aerial shots and practicing with some settings. While I was playing a virtual Chuck Yeager with the drone, I also got some shots of different locations.
Enjoy.
We were not able to be there for Week 4, so we jump to Week 5. Only 3 weeks to go and this was the first uncomfortable, cold and rainy game we had….not bad odds.
Wasn’t able to keep the camera out as much this weekend and I hope to be able to capture every teammate of each of Alastor and Lincoln’s teams over the next couple games, but here is what I got from this weekend’s matchups…
