I’ll be posting a lot of my shots from Sunday’s Tour de Nez over the next few days.
The handcycle race was the first race of the day (after the 5k run) and it was great fun, and inspiring. These guys can fly!
These are just a few. When the gallery is complete, I’ll provide the link.
More photos tomorrow!
Thank you to Bill Jones, Jr. for an excellent recommendation. I walked into the restaurant and knew immediately it was my kind of place. From the sofa seating area, to the blackboard menu, to my favorite Langston Hughes poem silk-screened on the back of servers’ shirts, to the delicious tofu scramble, to the cozy bookstore (where I purchased my breakfast read, the Utne Reader, and after breakfast snagged a copy of Alice Walker’s The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers), Busboys and Poets was all that, and then some.
iPhone shot on the way in . . .
Another iPhone shot – of the kitchen and pass-bar.
“Real” camera photos below . . .
Most of the wait staff at the pass-bar below the chalkboard.
Mark, our waiter.
Back to the hotel via the Metro – Green Line to Gallery Place, transfer to the Red Line to Metro Center.
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.” – Eve Arnold
“The photographer never arrives, ever. You’re always just barely scratching the surface.” ~ Chris Orwig
I didn’t want to post this until the results were in. (And yes, the last photo was taken today). What follows are just thirteen of the approximately 400 photos I took of the event and the days leading up to it.
Final Project – ART 235
Medical Outreach Response Event
April 13 – 14, 2012
Silver Stage High School, Silver Springs, NV
Organizers and Volunteers
Christy (right) is the Director of the Healthy Communities Coalition. Freida (left) runs the Dayton Food bank and was the instigating force for the event. She wondered, What good did it do to give people food if they couldn’t chew it? Freida was the volunteer organizer and logistics person for the event.
Wendy organized the professionals (dentists, doctors, nurses, optometrists, etc). She is the head of Community Roots.
Rita was one of a couple hundred extraordinary volunteers. Here she is calling people who registered late for the event to let them know what services would be available.<
The Event – Friday, April 13 (12 – 5pm) & Saturday, April 14 (9am – 5pm)
Community Health Nurses consult with one another in preparation for the MORE event.
One of the dentists and his assistants heading out to the mobile dental van.
Wendy cannot contain her excitement after getting a look at the dental van. It really was amazing. It was a complete, modern dental office (five chairs) on wheels.
There were so many who needed dental work, that it was meted out via lottery tickets. On day one 8 numbers were drawn every half hour. The dentists did their best to keep up, but many clients with tickets had not been served by the end of the first day, so those patients came back the next day, as did anyone else who had a lottery ticket in the raffle can. There was no way all who needed help were going to be seen. And yet the people waited and hoped. Once their number was called, it was still a long wait and I saw some people who had been standing in line on Friday morning still waiting for dental treatment on Saturday at 4pm when I left , No one who was lucky enough to get their number called complained. They waited and waited and waited until they finally saw the dentist. And among those lucky enough to get their ticket pulled, well, in some cases they gave their place to someone else in their family whose needs were more urgent.
One client speaking to a volunteer at the lottery table.
Other services were also offered. Immunizations were by far the most popular after dental work.
We had optometrists on hand as well. The Lions Club volunteers did vision testing and screening, and prospective patients were sent back to the optometrists.
Dental work was, by far, the most requested and labor intensive service offered at MORE 2012.
Mark needed a filling in his front incisor.
Dr. Brad Munninger of Desert Valley Dental in Fernley worked his magic.
Mark’s reaction was pretty typical of all the dental patients. Big smiles, hugs, and even some tears.
I was very proud to have done this project and I’m honored the organizers trusted me to do the event justice. I’m happy with the result, but more than that, I’m happy that the photographs I took will be used to influence support for further events of this type in the near future, and legislation and change in the coming years.
Icing on the cake:
Until the recession kicked the city and the business community’s collective hind end, the City of Reno held an annual Corporate Challenge. My company competed every year; the organizers doing their best to recruit participants for every event from Pictionary to darts to Track and Field to softball to swimming and even tug-of-war. I competed in 2009 and 2010 (the last year the event was held). In 2009 I competed in swimming (backstroke and breaststroke) and managed to pull off a silver medal in each event. In 2010, I bested myself and won a gold medal in breaststroke, a silver in freestyle and shock of all shocks, a silver in the long jump. Go figure. I wasn’t in shape at all, but the company needed women in my age bracket to compete, if for no other reason than to help boost our overall score. So I showed up. I swam. I jumped. I even tossed a shot put and a softball. And I had fun.
These medals hang on my office bulletin board as a daily reminder: Show up. Participate.
I shot this candle tonight, processed it with Daylight white balance, and it just screamed for something to go with it.
Carissa Snedeker Photography 