It's been a hectic 6 weeks or so for me, covering the two college graduations that our commencement coverage entails here in our area. (Mt. St. Mary College & the USMA at West Point, back in late May.) Then capping it all off this past weekend with 5 high school ceremonies in blazing temperatures, beginning Friday night & into Saturday morning. Going into the season this Spring, I at least had the logistics down pretty good as far as the schools' administration, shooting locations, parking access, and even knew to look out for some of the familiar faces I'd covered during the year.
That foreknowledge worked out well at West Point and at the HS ceremonies; where I couldn't stay for any of the full ceremonies. It's kind of frustrating in the short period of time that you're at a venue (not including the college events) as you're already thinking of rushing off to the next school where their ceremony is simultaneously taking place. And then a third as well. That gets to be a real bear when you have three in a row on a Friday night in late June. Sort of like a "bang-bang-bang..." play in baseball. I like to think of it all as sort of a "shoot-n-scoot" excerise, although you better have quite a few decent images (with full caption info) for the paper and secondary "art" for the web galleries...
Anyway, after what seemed like endless hurried driving and running around the venues, and nearly no sleep Friday night (I couldn't stop thinking about Saturday morning's two ceremonies) as I got to the first one at 8AM or so for their 10AM start. Here are a few favs in no particular order, including a couple again from Army and MSMC too:
And from the college ranks:
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