A time-crunch photo assignment at a local youth rally.

September 24 was a nation wide rally, See You at the Pole, where students gather around their school’s flagpoles and pray for their school and nation. Many places, there is a city-wide rally that evening. Our friend over at Campus Ministry Network gave us a call and asked if we could take a few pictures to send out to the rally put on by a church in Asheville, North Carolina. The organizers out in Asheville wanted their upstart group to see what was going on in Wichita. Our assignment: deliver 3 to 5 images to Asheville.

Oh yeah. We had 15 minutes to deliver the pictures. Because of the time difference, the event here in Wichita started half and hour before it was over in North Carolina.  Before the event, I made sure I had wireless access at the church and sent a test email to the tech guy for the east coasters. Once the event started at 7:00, I allotted myself 8 minutes to get the pictures taken so I’d have plenty of time to send them off. I wanted to get at least three different looks. So I started at the front corner of the sanctuary and worked around in a circle. By 7:11 I had sent off 5 images.

The result was a mix of detail and wide shots, with a mix of ambient and flash.