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methodically verbose

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"This too, shall pass." - A.E.G., 1942

"But if not I, then who shall speak on their behalf?"

Confucius say - working with writer, sure to cause cramps

This entry was posted on 3/29/2007 7:33 PM and is filed under un-politically correct.

In working as a photojournalist intern, I found my first assignment working with a writer to be littered with pitfalls. Coming from a history of learning best from my mistakes - in hind-sight, this will probably be very beneficial in my career as a future photojournalist... that said, I learned a lot today.

When I arrived at work today, I was told that our office had been assigned to cover the awarding of Congressional Gold Medal award to the members of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II at 1300 hrs today, but that they weren't given access due to time constraints. Being the go-getter (translation - sucker), I contacted one of my teachers that works on the Capitol to see about assistance with issuing last minute credentials for myself, and my fellow teammate. Within the hour we had everything setup to go, provided we arrive ASAP. ASAP turned out to be WEWGOA (when ever writer gets off a**.) Needless to say, we didn't make it in time, and spent the better part of an hour standing outside the Capitol watching everyone else go in. Luckily, my editor was able to procure our admittance into the reception at the Library of Congress so it wasn't all for loss.

Making sure not too repeat the same mistake twice in the same day, I made sure to be at the Library of Congress according to my version of ASAP. To make a long story short - we were able to get the images needed to accompany the article in time for our deadline, but that's another story.

Believing that I wasn't about to waste such a beautiful day out of the office, I managed to squeeze out a shot of John Voight hanging around the set of National Treasure II - which is being filmed here in the district over the next couple of weeks.