"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again." ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
And I think that there an interesting little effect on the right caused by light bouncing off of the 14mm I was using. Looks like a ghostly copyright symbol to me.
So a Hokie Bird is basically a turkey... and turkeys gobble. But this is not a photo of a Hokie Bird. This is a photo of a brave bull-rider at Gobblerfest the day before Game Day. Go Fighting Gobblers.
This was one of those assignments that you really never get excited about... but I ended up excited about this one. Why? Because after a few frames of this flag, Mrs. Ladybug crawled out from under that leaf. Ladybugs are definitely something to get excited about!
Rebecca Craig/The New Mexican Dustin Murray takes a break after competing in Bareback Riding at Rodeo de Santa Fe on June 27. Murray grew up in Santa Fe but now lives in Wellston, Oklahoma.