I’m sort of running late this morning, but wanted to put a brief update in here about what I did this weekend, which was to go to Cincinnati for the NABBA board meeting.
As expected, I’m now secretary of that august body. Honestly not sure how I feel about that, although it gives me something to do (the meeting minutes) and possibly gives me more legitimacy when I contact non-member bands to try to cajole them to get involved.
There were a couple of things decided at the meeting with which I very much disagree. While trying to make my argument against one of them, I was (quite literally) shouted down by the president and chastised by a 20-something girl who (I think) may find out why I’m right sooner than she thinks. Ultimately, my argument against that proposed rules change was voted down, 14-2.
At least I got one other vote….
After the meetings, I spent a few hours walking around a street festival in downtown Cincinnati and taking pictures of the board members and anything else that looked interesting, and on Sunday Betsy and I drove back to Atlanta. On the way home, we took a side-trip to Rock City (that of “See Rock City” fame) near Chattanooga; but after seeing that the entry fee was $20 each and realizing that we could only spend an hour or so there, we just snapped a few pictures from the side of Lookout Mountain and continued to the house. Betsy returned to San Antonio on Monday.
After shooting a total of 4 football games so far (two high school, two college), I’ve decided that my new approach this year is working. I ditched my super-telephoto lenses in favor of a sharp and fast 200 millimeter lens, and I’ve been really happy with the results so far (as always, you can view my efforts at theuffp.smugmug.com). Other folks have liked the shots, too. Furman’s SID has already used a couple of my shots for press releases and one of the team mothers for the high school team “purchased” about 20 prints of last week’s high school game. Unfortunately, I’d set the prices on the HS shots to cost – something like 19 cents for a 4×6 print rather than the $4 that I’d normally charge – so I made nothing on those sales.
That was my plan from the start, though. The rest of the HS game galleries will have normal pricing schedules, and the coaching staff is fine with that. Basically, I gave them two weeks of shots for free, and now I’ll charge for the other two or three games that I shoot for them. Hopefully, it’ll be a win-win.
Only a few sales of the college prints so far, but that usually picks up mid-season.
Must now head to the office. Oh, yeah – I’m getting sick again.
Shit.
TWD