Mural night at the Nook...

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The Nook sponsored a mural making event last night. I like things like that. Small venue, really good people, excellent frigging coffee... Oh, and the entertainment. I hate to say this, but I do not remember the musician's or the reader's names. Yes, I suck. All I remember were the names of the dancers.

Gina Laurenzi has been a frequent photo target in my lens. She's been kind enough to invite me to photograph her dance troupe, CAPTIVATE, before. Frankly, I think Gina's group is the most progressive/experimental in K-town. She's always willing to have her dancers try something new in their performances. It's nice to see someone willing to try something beyond the norm.

Dani was the other dancer. She's a member of CAPTIVATE, but Dani's favorite form of dance is nothing new or experimental. Nope. Dani is a big fan of an older, more traditional form of dance - tap. Yepper, that's right, Dani loves tap dancing. She practices, performs around Kenosha (as the pictures show) and goes down to Chicago to take lessons.

Now, a couple of words on the specs from these photos. The ones that have more of a radical difference between the lights and darks were shot at 400. The others, the ones with a more even gradient, were shot at 3200. These have more noise, but that is unavoidable. The shots of Dani dancing were taken with fresh batteries in the flash, which resulted in a harsher lighting than the shots beforehand.

All shots were fast edited - that is they were done just to get them done fast so they could be posted last night. Almost all of these could benefit by adjusting curves and lighting levels. This is my way of saying "oops, my bad" for any and all mistakes in these shots. You just can't get away from the implications of a Catholic baptism no matter how old you get, I guess.

Enjoy and gank any of the shots you want. There are no protections on these.