White Bros. Music repair shop

This is an image from my time spent at the White Bros. Music repair shop. It was a last minute living city that I had to turn around on deadline and thought that I formatted all these images, only to discover two days after it goes up that someone just took my card and my strongest images were on that card. My own fault, I need to keep better track of my own stuff but I was very upset. This is what I believe to be my strongest image. Mike Mason of the White Bros. Music repair shop flattens out a curve on a cello. "when we have to add wood to damaged instruments we have to make them completely flat." The beginning ambient to the Sound Slides was the noise of him scrapping and chiseling away at the instrument. followed by him sanding and then the final is him tuning and playing it. I feel this would have worked much better than what ran. Oh well something to re-work for the portfolio/site or something.

Fish

These two ran as a package about Preuss Pets in Old Town. Personally, I'm pretty sure we've clobbered our readers over the head with Old Town since I've started working at the paper, and there's been this big thing about location stories. I'm very fed up with them because they're not about any one in particular and trying to e a reporter to go out into the world and source a story with a real life human being and not an official is nearly impossible.

I met a cool guy named Antonio though out of the shoot. He's from Cuba, got to the US with his two children and his wife in '98 via the visa lottery. He studied vet sciences in Cuba and worked in jungles with animals. Fish were his hobby at home in Cuba. Now he's been working at Preuss Pets for almost 10 years, since her got here, as their resident vet, breeding strands of fish for quality control. The man knows so much about animals.

Anyway, going to be doing a portrait series on tailgaters in the next up coming month so be prepared.