A weekend whirlwind

My long-time friend Emily, who now lives in Washington D.C., came home this past weekend for the holiday. As usual when she visits, she had a long list of places and people to see. I tagged along as we drove up to Petoskey to visit her 92-year-old "Gra."We stopped at CMU, our alma mater (Emily still knows the words to the alma mater song, dork!) and hit Lake Michigan in Charlevoix

Adam, Eric and Emily listening to Gra as she looks at an old photo of her family taken when she was a child.

The seal at Warriner Mall on campus at Central Michigan University.

We took a short ferry ride to cross over to Charlevoix and then checked out the pier and lighthouse on Lake Michigan.

The hunt for Petoskey stones!

Photographing Kristine and Matt

I meet up with Michigan PhD candidates Kristine and Matt to shoot their engagement photos over the holiday weekend. The pair are getting married in Kristine's home state of Hawaii but have decided to do a special set of engagement photos so that Matt could have his home state represented! Go Michigan!

We hit up the Diag at the University of Michigan, befriended a hairless squirrel, spoiled the fun of some photo-crashing teenagers and ended the shoot cooling our feet in the fountain at Ingalls Mall. I honestly had a great time!

Congrats Kristine and Matt and best wishes!

Never catch a line drive bare-handed

So, it's been awhile since my last post. That is in part, due to what happened this past Sunday. I was assigned to shoot Michigan softball at Alumni Field here in Ann Arbor. I was shooting from the third base dugout during the last inning as the opposing team was up to bat. Because it was the opposing team, I wasn't focused on the batter but our team at first base. It was because of this that I see didn't the foul ball the batter hit coming until it was too late to move. Fortunately, I looked up from behind the camera in time to deflected the ball with my right hand. The speed of the ball ended up breaking my right ring finger! Ouch! I am certainly very lucky that I looked up from that camera, I could have been hurt a lot worse! It's a good thing softball season is coming to a close because I think it's going to be awhile before I can shoot from that dugout again!