‘It always rains for Fun Days’

.. or, so said a fellow journalist as I prepared to cover the North Liberty Fun Days parade. I had already been to the carnival, which was understandably quiet due to the late afternoon rain showers that started up about 30 minutes before the festival’s start.

Typically “cute kid photos” aren’t what I look for when I go into an event. (Yes, everyone loves cute kid photos, but, it can get boring after awhile, and we do strive for diversity of images in the paper — too many kids/puppies/flags, for instance, and it starts to look stale.) But this was event FOR the kids. And when I saw the parade route lined with umbrellas, I pretty much knew what my shot would be. Kid, somewhat restrained by umbrella, trying to take in all the action. Introduce self to parents, hang around until kid starts to ignore me, then shoot like mad when the right moment appears. Et voila.

-liz

~ by Liz Martin on June 12, 2009.