A fun assignment

I had a good time covering the 5th annual Hernando County Parks and Recreation Department's Father Daughter dance. In this first photo, Todd Klukowski, 34, dances with his daughter, Kaitlyn, 7, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Brooksville Friday night. Klukowski said that this is his third time at the dance, he has four daughters so each year he brings a different one. "Every year they get to pick the color of their dress and a shirt of matching color so I never know what I'm wearing," Klukowski said, "Last year I was in purple, and the year before I was in pink." I heard a lot of good stories like that during the evening. They might not be portfolio pieces, but I really enjoyed making these pictures.

Sometimes it gets cold in Florida...

...and that usually means I'm out of bed before 5 a.m. and out the door by 6, scrambling to make a picture of frost on something before the sun comes out and it melts away.

This time I headed for a U-pick blueberry farm where the proprietors had spent all night sleeping in 2 hour shifts and making sure their sprinklers were running to ice their bushes. The temperature bottomed out around 22 degrees, though the thermometer I photographed was in the path of a sprinkler and got stuck just under 30.

I know it's been forever since I've updated this, I'll be making an effort to be better about it.