One of the nurses (actually posing for a photo) with a patient
Today my church participated in an event for migrant workers and their children at the Good Samaritan Mission out in Wimauma. They had food and some variety of medical care (looked like vaccinations, I think) for the parents, and school supplies, popcorn, cotton candy, and all sorts of festivities for the children. There was face-painting, hair-cutting, magic shows, balloon animals, and all manner of fun. I think they even tried to have a soccer game, but the sun was brutal, and that didn’t last for very long.
My last photo of the day
I went with my friends John and Louis who do video with me at church, and they had brought a video camera to do interviews and shoot the different activities. With any luck, next Sunday we’ll have a short video with interview footage overlaid with scenes from the event, with some of my photos at the end set to music. It was a fun event, and the children really seemed to enjoy it. I got some photographs that I’m pretty happy with (despite the utterly atrocious light the sun was giving me), and the video turned out pretty well: I can’t wait to see it all edited together.
Speaking of editing, the footage from the youth lockin that I shot at church Friday night is all put together now, and posted to YouTube. Unfortunately, the audio turned out horribly. I just got an XLR cable from the sound board, plugged it in, and recorded what I got on the tape. Apparently what I got was no good, terribly crackly throughout. Who knows what the problem was, but I know next to nothing about running audio into the camera, so it’s entirely possible that the mistake is all mine. Oh well.