Back in the Saddle

After countless years of dying, (remember my dictum: "you're either growing or you're dying), and 39 days without turning a story, I am in a new groove. A new market, city, station, gear, and people. All great things that have been that carrot just out of reach for so long. I could not ask for better co-workers than the people at WGHP. I've never felt so welcome and included. I have every opportunity to grow and learn more about the craft I have chosen. I am grateful to Karen Adams, the station GM, all the department heads who have been so warm and open with this new face--a photographer!? (New concept to this wavescribe of 15 years). But mostly, I am grateful to my mentor, chief photographer Keith Hale who is extremely generous and caring about the product and the photographers. He has taken me under his wing and made sure I was ready to fly with the rest of the flock.

Today I spent with weekend meteorologist and weekday reporter, Charles Ewing. Our story was about a proposed parking ramp for down town Greensboro. The gathering would be pretty easy at first, but we would have to wait until 3pm to get additional b-roll and sound, then cap it off with a live shot at 6pm at city hall. As this would be my first live shot too, Keith set up the shot, giving me thorough instruction as we went along. In the rain. I edited and fed the pkg and Keith did the live. There were some bumps along the way, but the day had lessons learned in it, and I am, once again, a better person for being here.