Jul
31
It’s been one hot friggin’ week all around the Tacoma area, and it wasn’t any different in Sunriver, OR, where I took a few days to relax earlier this week. How did you beat the heat? Hit the water slides, the beach, grab a slushie? I decided to explore the lava river cave just outside Bend, OR. You’d think it being a lava cave, it wouldn’t be the best idea to escape the 95 degree temps, however, this mile-long cave stays a constant 42 degrees year-round. The second I hit the mouth of this baby it was already time to breakout the hooded sweatshirt.
Venturing the unknown, cold, dark cave, I wasn’t about to haul thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment with me to document the trip, and that’s where the good ‘ol point ‘n shoot came in. So, the shots aren’t anything to write home about, just something fun to look at. All of these shots are longer shots and handheld, so there have a unsteady look to them, but can give a cool effect at times.
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Jul
13
Tacoma General Hospital put on Nurse Camp last week. An event where high school students get the rare opportunity to shadow working nurses in the hospital, as well as learn much of what nurses do and are responsible for at the facility. Hundreds of students applied and only one hundred were accepted after the selection process was all done. However, before even the selected were allowed to partake, they had to fill out gobs of paperwork, attend orientations, and get their immunizations up-to-date. Having to put in all that work before even getting to experience nurse camp lets you know that these students really wanted to be there, learn, and find out if nursing was a profession they’d be interested in pursuing.
The nursing crew, wanting some quality photos of the event, asked if I would be available to capture it for them. Granted I’m that last one who wants to be in a hospital and be reminded of sickness and death on a regular basis, not to mention I can’t watch a needle go into my own skin without passing out, I was relieved to find out that the event would just be exercises on dummies and pig parts.
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