Snoopy and Charlie Brown - Saint Paul, MN, originally uploaded by jsevier14.
I’m in the process of catching up after the massive Alaska project. I’ve had several shoots in the queue from the latter half of 2009 and all of 2010. There will be more of these coming.
For now, the catchup project begins in Saint Paul, the site of the 2009 WFTDA North Central Regional women’s flat track Rollerderby tournament. Jason and I shot the tournament for our Cincinnati Rollergirls team, who came in fourth in the competition. That’s the best gig ever for an amateur photographer like me, and one of the perks is I get to go with them all over the country. Good work, if you can get it. I’m happy to be coming back with them for another year.
For now the subject is Saint Paul, and in the downtime Jason and I walked about the city looking for interesting subjects to shoot. Over the course of the few days were there, we shot the Mississippi River, people swimming in it, the usual smattering of buildings and architecture, including the Minnesota State Capital and the Fitzgerald Theater where Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion PBS radio broadcast originates. A little slice of America at its best, that production.
What really caught my eye in Saint Paul though were the bronze sculptures of Charles M. Schultz’s Peanuts characters that were scattered about the city. Schultz grew up in Saint Paul, so the city rightly tributes his contribution to American life with his little cartoon characters, sculpted to larger than fiction but just about right for real life. I remember waiting in great anticipation for the TV specials when I was a kid, and I have at least a few compendiums of Schultz’s work. So with apologies to Schultz and his legacy, I made some pictures out of his characters, like Peppermint Patty punting a football, with best friend Marcy peacefully reading not too far away. “Nice kick, sir…” Woodstock sits quietly off Marcy’s shoulder...
Lucy and Schroeder are there, as well as Linus and Sally with elbows perched on a brick fence, like some of Schultz’s iconic comic strip plates. Charlie Brown is in the set too, with Snoopy strewn across his outstretched legs. That one in particular reminds me of my puppy, as I suppose it should. So, this set is mainly about Schultz, with some other Saint Paul scenes thrown in there for good measure of some of the other things experienced while there...
For now, the catchup project begins in Saint Paul, the site of the 2009 WFTDA North Central Regional women’s flat track Rollerderby tournament. Jason and I shot the tournament for our Cincinnati Rollergirls team, who came in fourth in the competition. That’s the best gig ever for an amateur photographer like me, and one of the perks is I get to go with them all over the country. Good work, if you can get it. I’m happy to be coming back with them for another year.
For now the subject is Saint Paul, and in the downtime Jason and I walked about the city looking for interesting subjects to shoot. Over the course of the few days were there, we shot the Mississippi River, people swimming in it, the usual smattering of buildings and architecture, including the Minnesota State Capital and the Fitzgerald Theater where Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion PBS radio broadcast originates. A little slice of America at its best, that production.
What really caught my eye in Saint Paul though were the bronze sculptures of Charles M. Schultz’s Peanuts characters that were scattered about the city. Schultz grew up in Saint Paul, so the city rightly tributes his contribution to American life with his little cartoon characters, sculpted to larger than fiction but just about right for real life. I remember waiting in great anticipation for the TV specials when I was a kid, and I have at least a few compendiums of Schultz’s work. So with apologies to Schultz and his legacy, I made some pictures out of his characters, like Peppermint Patty punting a football, with best friend Marcy peacefully reading not too far away. “Nice kick, sir…” Woodstock sits quietly off Marcy’s shoulder...
Lucy and Schroeder are there, as well as Linus and Sally with elbows perched on a brick fence, like some of Schultz’s iconic comic strip plates. Charlie Brown is in the set too, with Snoopy strewn across his outstretched legs. That one in particular reminds me of my puppy, as I suppose it should. So, this set is mainly about Schultz, with some other Saint Paul scenes thrown in there for good measure of some of the other things experienced while there...
