I'm playing for the Vermont Voltage now ... sort of
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 1:31PM Sure, it feels a little chilly still, but here it is April 11 and I've already been to a half-dozen spring sports games. Pretty remarkable, really.
And there's a lot more to come.
I've adjusted my schedule to allow me to get to more games this spring than last year and will once again keep those who care about such things up to date with my travels and tribulations in the days and weeks to come.
I also want to announce a new partnership of sorts with the Vermont Voltage. CHP will be the official photographer of the Voltage this summer and I will be working with the team as a public relations consultant.
This is very exciting news - I've known team owner Bo Vuckovic for over a decade and have marevelled in what he has created in Franklin County. We've toyed with the idea of joining forces off an on again over this span of time, but finally the stars aligned and I'm happy that CHP and the VV are able to team up - here's hoping its the start of a long relationship!
While I'm at it, I would like to thank these organizations for officially jumping on board the Cold Hollow Photo train and allowing me to take their team/individual photos this spring.
Johnson State College softball - my first-ever college gig - a lot of fun and some friendly faces to boot - former Enosburg stars Julie Gervais and Maria Lovelette were on basketball teams I helped coach at Enosburg H.S. and Kaitlyn Mackey was a BFA-St. Albans slugger I covered over the past few years. There were also a trio of players from my alma mater - Hazen Union - inlcuding one, Desiree Lacasse - whose father was a next-door neighbor for a while when I was growing up - man that makes me feel really old.
Northwest Ice U-10 AAU Basketball - Thanks for Shaun Montague and Jeannette Larivee for thinking of me for their team photos. A cute group, to be sure!
Fairfax-Westford and Milton Little Leagues - Our first two Little Leagues! (I've done tons of LL photos, but always as a photographer working with VSI) Very excited to add these groups to the CHP roster - always a little nerve-wracking the first time around, but my contacts there are super to deal with so I'm feeling very excited about this opportunity. Thanks Mary Beth and Cheryl for putting your faith in CHP!
Vermont Voltage Youth Soccer Club - This one is still in development, but the plan is to take their photos sometime in May and is an offshoot of my new relationship with the Voltage.
Thanks one and all for working with CHP and thanks, too, for those schools and leagues that we work with that I didn't mention. You are all very important to me and I appreciate our relationship. While it sounds like we are busy - and we are - there's always room for growth. If you know of a team/school/league that wants to have its photos taken by CHP, just shoot me an email shawn@coldhollowphoto.com or call me 782-5317. If you'd like to see samples of our work, check out the sample page on my website.
Take care and see you on the sidelines.
Shawn
Have you seen my keys?
The good news? I'm finally over my cold.
The bad news? Apparently, I've lost my mind.
And my keys.
The following is a true story.
I worked a desk shift at the Freeps tonight. So I parked my car downtown. I fumbled around for some change. I got out of my car and walked about five feet to the parking meter. I took my laptop bag and my lunch out of the car and then I locked the car.
OK, I tried to lock the car. But that's not a good idea if you don't have your keys.
So let me review. Somehow I lost a set of keys (about a half-dozen) on a large key ring in/around my car in the time it takes to walk five feet.
I looked for a solid 20 minutes in, out, on top of and even under my car. I emptied out both my lunch bag and my lap top bag. Twice. I checked my pockets 17 times. Nothing.
I even enlisted a co-worker to help me go back to the car and we both repeated the search. Nada.
My loving wife drove an hour to give me my spare key and she resumed the search. Zilch.
Soooooo ...
One of three things happened. Someone stole my keys. I put my keys some place inside my car, my bags or my body (Yikes!) that it either so obvious or so remote that it obscures them totally or my keys were sucked through a space/time vortex.
I vote for option three. I'm sure someone on some other planet suddenly had a set of keys on a Red Sox key chain turn up unexpectedly and they are writing a blog about the strangest thing to happen to them in a long, long time.
At any rate, if you find my keys ... or my mind, let me know.
On an unrelated note, tomorrow (today?) OK, Tuesday I will resume editing photos taken over last couple of weeks, including the BFA girls hockey championship photos and the MVU boys hockey and boys basketball semifinal photos.
If you want to be notified when they are posted, shoot me an email or leave a comment.