Shameless

If the post is going to skirt the bounds of internet good taste,
the photo might as well follow. Really, it's a shot from a
traveling freak show circus I saw in Indy. Sword swallowers,
feats of strength etc.
Image copyright Erik Markov 2009

This is shameless self-promotion, sorry. I've got a new website, my first actually. Over at Sportsshooter, someone in a recent article about blogging was quoted as saying a blog is nothing more than "mental masturbation." If that's the case, then this post is just me being a whore, trying to get my site out there. I apologize, but as they say in fourth grade, "Everbody else is doing it!" That's a good enough reason for me.

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You Are Here

Wherever you are at, that's the place to be.
Image copyright Erik Markov 2009

At the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, IL. shooting the NASCAR race for the second year in a row. While up on a shooting platform getting some photos of cars on the track during practice, I saw this jumble. Reminds me of the "You Are Here" on maps. Of course that never seems to help, just because one is there, doesn't mean they know where "here" is.

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Easter egg hunt..... no, easter egg pick up

From my assignment to shoot the easter egg "hunt" at the civic center.

The children were divided into different age groups for the hunt.
Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2009

S-egg-regation

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Lost..... And Found

I found this in a parking lot in Kokomo, on Thanksgiving of all days.

Mom Brummett?

On the back it says,"Colburn, You're the son I never wanted and so much more! So glad we finally got to act together. :) Beth"

So many questions, so few answers. Is this Mom Brummett? If not, who is it? Who is Colburn? Who is Beth?

There are things I'm thankful for this year. I'm healthy. I'm a little wiser, at least a bit, photographically. I have a job. Friends and family around me. And I don't have a mom who looks like Lizzie Borden in her later years.

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No vending machines in heaven?

Angel and priest

Image copyright Erik Markov 2008

On Sunday, the morning after shooting the Nascar race, stopped for breakfast in Shorewood, IL at Crispy Waffle. Good food. Like the name, simple, tells you exactly what the deal is. Leaving the restaurant, I looked at the little row of vending machines they had lined up. Gobstoppers, various other types of candy and toys. Of the five or six machines that were there, this was the only one not working.

Sometimes the signs are obvious I guess, like a burning bush. Other times they're more subtle.

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Blood Donor

Levi Bowman works on his car for the Howard County Fair demolition derby later that evening. According to Bowman, "She runs like a top as long as I can keep the drive shaft in."

Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008

Going over to the demolition derby while I was at the fair probably was the highlight of my day spent there. Shooting animals, and yes I did get some photos of goats, part of the fair queen judging, but this is much more interesting. What can one say, its a demolition derby, lots of jerry-rigging and hammering before going out to compete. Lots of fun to take photos of though. And the shirt just makes it complete.

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The opini

In the right department

11-year-old Curtis Brown's three-month-old goat is apparently
in the right place at the Miami County fairgrounds.
Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008

Okay, one more goat picture. Last one I promise. Unless I get another one in two weeks when the Howard County fair starts. Sigh.

For some reason I found this funny. I'm not sure where the shoe department is. Cow department is two barns over.

So many questions....

A Kokomo Fire Department ambulance outside the Little Daddy's
adult entertainment showclub.
Image copyright Erik Markov 2008

....And so few answers.

Was it an "employee" injury?

Did a patron have a cardiovascular attack during a vigorous personal performance?

I guess sometimes the fewer answers there are, the better off everyone is.

It's images like this that are the reason this blog has the name it does.



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