It’s been a week since my last post. I hope I won’t wait that long again. Anyways, I shot this today while covering a Black History Program at the Griffin Boys & Girls Club. After each girl read their part for this particular skit, they held up the picture and bio of the person they were talking about. I just like this one. Anyways, here’s the caption that ran in the paper: Courtney Head, 10, holds up a picture and biography of Oprah Winfrey on Friday at the Salvation Army during the Boys & Girls Club’s Black History Month Program. Many children who attend after-school programs sponsored by the club read biographies of prominent African-Americans and performed skits.

It’s crazy around here at Photosoup — I’m going to post TWICE in the same day. If you can’t handle it, you might want to leave now. Anyways, here’s a portrait of B.J. Endsley, a senior for Spalding High School, that I shot for the paper. He is leading the Jaguars in scoring and rebounding, and is just an all-around good athlete.

I went up the Georgia Capitol on Thursday to cover a local preacher giving the invocation. Before the session started, I grabbed this frame of Cleve Shupe, who works for the House of Representatives Post Office. He was passing out paperwork for the representatives.

Here’s my Charlie during an outing at John Tanner State Park a few weeks ago. It was super cold, and the water even colder, but that didn’t seem to bother Charlie one bit. He’s a shepherd/labrador mix that I’ve had for a little more than four years. I would go crazy without him.

I shot this of Mr. Hicks, a concrete mixer, while shooting a construction site today in Griffin. I almost didn’t take it, but I’m glad I did. Faces can tell so much.

I was really excited today to get started on this photo story. I don’t think this particular photo will make the cut, but I just like it. I’m starting a story about R.L. “Skeeter” Norsworthy, who’s the owner of Hollingsworth Repair Shop, where’s he’s worked for the last 65 YEARS! You’ll find a photo of him at the bottom of my “2006 favs” post. After I took the photo last year, I knew I wanted to do a photo essay or multimedia piece on him. Anyways, about this photo: Pictured are the hands of Skeeter and his helper, Raymond Ledbetter, as they work on making a key to fit this General Motors steering column. I really think they’re hands have lots of stories in them. I’ll be posting more as I shoot more on this. I’m scheduled to go back on Thursday morning. Like many old southern business, Hollingsworth is closed on Wednesdays.

I’ve been going through just everything I’ve shot since I started working here in Griffin, and I found this from 2005. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I drove by this — it was just too pretty to be in Griffin, Georgia. I shot it until the light faded, praying the whole time for at least one person to walk along the tracks to make a silhouette. This stretch of tracks is littered with liquor bottles and other garbage from the folks who take it as a short cut — but just not this December day.