Ah the Ten Day Week
Every third week I work the weekend shift, which means I will have the Monday before and the Friday after, off of work.
That makes two thirds of my weekends three day weekends. But while that sounds great (and it is...), it also means my fellow photogs and I end up working ten day shifts every few weeks.
Well, I just finished one of those extended weeks, hurriedly attempting to get all my work done so that maybe I don't get a call from the office asking for a photograph that should have been placed on a page hours ago.
People say that there aren't enough days in the week to get everything done, and I'll tell ya that it's true even if you double your work week.
Although, I'd prefer being busy to being bored; and being a photojournalist is typically never boring.
Snow, sleet, freezing rain and every other winter road hazard are forecast for tomorrow, meaning that more than likely I'll have the company of my wonderful wife (schools will undoubtedly be out). Must be nice being a teacher and knowing you'll be off when the winterly precip begins to fall.
Journalists however... Let me put it this way; the worse the weather conditions, the more I need to be out taking pictures. Although really, I have an affinity for tromping around in the snow, so it's not all bad. It's the freezing rain I could certainly do without.
I spent the last few minutes at work readying some of my work from 2007 to be sent off for judging in the Chesapeake AP contest. This is the first year I will send any of my work for contests, and honestly, I'm somewhat excited.
I'm really curious to see how the News-Post multimedia, and in particular, my work fare. Since multimedia is so new to us print journalists, papers our size in Maryland have not produced as much of the internet only content as we have.
But more than the multimedia, I'd really like to see my still photography do well. While I love getting phone calls from my grandmother just to tell me how much she enjoyed one of my photos, I'd really love to have my work recognized by my peers.
Enough for now I suppose, I'm going to go see if the snow has begun to fall.
That makes two thirds of my weekends three day weekends. But while that sounds great (and it is...), it also means my fellow photogs and I end up working ten day shifts every few weeks.
Well, I just finished one of those extended weeks, hurriedly attempting to get all my work done so that maybe I don't get a call from the office asking for a photograph that should have been placed on a page hours ago.
People say that there aren't enough days in the week to get everything done, and I'll tell ya that it's true even if you double your work week.
Although, I'd prefer being busy to being bored; and being a photojournalist is typically never boring.
Snow, sleet, freezing rain and every other winter road hazard are forecast for tomorrow, meaning that more than likely I'll have the company of my wonderful wife (schools will undoubtedly be out). Must be nice being a teacher and knowing you'll be off when the winterly precip begins to fall.
Journalists however... Let me put it this way; the worse the weather conditions, the more I need to be out taking pictures. Although really, I have an affinity for tromping around in the snow, so it's not all bad. It's the freezing rain I could certainly do without.
I spent the last few minutes at work readying some of my work from 2007 to be sent off for judging in the Chesapeake AP contest. This is the first year I will send any of my work for contests, and honestly, I'm somewhat excited.
I'm really curious to see how the News-Post multimedia, and in particular, my work fare. Since multimedia is so new to us print journalists, papers our size in Maryland have not produced as much of the internet only content as we have.
But more than the multimedia, I'd really like to see my still photography do well. While I love getting phone calls from my grandmother just to tell me how much she enjoyed one of my photos, I'd really love to have my work recognized by my peers.
Enough for now I suppose, I'm going to go see if the snow has begun to fall.
posted by Graham at
11:09 PM
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