Photo essay
by Barbara Richerson
W
orking as a photographer
for Sul Ross State Univer -
sity provided so many
photo ops. My students and I covered
just about everything connected with
the university. We shot sports, theater
productions, university events and
classes and labs and photographed a
number of well-known people along
the way. In the 80s and 90s, the job
was accomplished with Nikon manual
cameras and black and white lab work.
Starting in 2003, we used Canon digi-
tal cameras and Adobe Photoshop.
The object was to get the picture that
told the story and sparked an interest
in the viewer. Often we needed to tell
the story with a single picture.
Here are some of the shots I got
along the way.
Shooting a hot air balloon rally is exhilarating. I like to get there as the sun rises and walk around and around as the crews inflate the balloons and get
them in the air. They are huge and beautiful, fragile but powerful, and there are so many views to catch. One of my favorites is shooting through the open-
ing, sometimes getting the burst of flame, sometimes a silhouette of the crew working. Looking for that one perfect shot drives me on, year by year.
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Cenizo
Fourth Quarter 2010