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Jeremy Hack: Green River Catfish Festival Day 1: A Photo Journal
This is a photo journal of my experiences at day 1 of the 2016 Green River Catfish Festival. Before I proceed, allow me to hedge this journal by informing the readers that if you'd like an image you see featured here, please email us and request it to be emailed to you instead of downloading it from this site. This is because in order to properly display images on this site, I must down sample my images to 800x1200 pixels- which, for you math geeks out there, is merely 20.8 percent of the original resolution that I captured in camera.
Approaching the Green River Catfish Festival is generally financially, mentally, and physically taxing on me as I prepare a video production of the event. However I have taken the festival in 2016 as a photographic venture. Due to the enormous decreasing slope of involvement between covering this as a film production and simply photographing the event, I'm left with a great deal of free time and flexibility. I am doing my best to realize that it's not that serious and that I can have a good time as well and relax a bit, but it's not easy as the festival has been my yearly capstone for the past 4 years.
Arriving at the festival, I parked my vehicle and approached the trunk of the car only to realize that there isn't an exceedingly large shoulder-mounted camera system in there this time. I got my 5D out of the passenger seat and proceeded on foot to the midway.
I was walking around like a lost puppy for a bit before I warmed up to the location. While walking about, I set the exposure of the camera and did some test shots of the rides before any visitors arrived.
Prior to opening ceremonies, a gentleman was sitting aside the basketball court awaiting the start of the ceremony. He had caught a tagged fish and was eagerly showing his support of the festival.
While chatting with some of my colleagues I heard singing begin to emanate from the first pavilion near my location. I left my post to investigate. Following this, I ran into my uncle, his wife, and their children. The kids had bubble guns, so I took advantage of the opportunity to get photos.
It was then time for my favorite thing to photograph at the festival, the rides. I'm a sports photographer by experience, therefore photographing people riding the carnival rides provides me with a sense of familiarity. The high zoom level accompanied by the rapid movement speed of the rides always makes for a perfect degree of challenge.
While photographing the rides, two young women posed for the camera. One of the young ladies was at upside down at the apex of "The Ring of Fire" but was still able to look directly at the camera below, which I found to be entertaining and a bit comical.
Passing the miniature Farris Wheel, I noticed young children within two of the carriages. Each time the wheel reached its apex, the girls would look to the carriage in front of them and wave.
After nightfall I proceeded to arrive at the first pavilion to photograph the Rye Davis band. Following this I moved to capture some long exposure images of the rides in motion.
Covering the festival from this new perspective is a bit to become comfortable with, however I am very pleased with the images that I've captured thus far. Please stay tuned for the photo journal of my day 2 experience.
Photos and Journal by Jeremy Hack, Beech Tree News
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