Starting around the middle of June each year, most of my weekends during the summer are spent covering the town festivals and music festivals around Grand County. This past weekend was the annual Kremmling Days, an event that yielded an award winner in last year's Colorado Press Association contest for me.
This year, due to several other commitments, I wasn't able to get to Kremmling until late in the afternoon--well after the activities I normally shoot had concluded. As is my normal operating plan for annual events such as this, I was looking for something different, but nothing was catching my eye until I started observing kids at a spin art booth.
I have seen Charlie Holthausen's spin art booth at Kremmling Days before, but never paid much attention to it. Charlie and his wife, Gail, have come from Steamboat Springs for several years to offer budding artists the opportunity to create their own masterpiece for $2.
I shot several kids creating their works of art. You will see a shot of Charlie helping a young boy in Wednesday's paper, which is also an image I really liked. Then I moved in closer as Charlie prepared another board to be painted and was intrigued with the color and pattern of splattered paint on the wheel.
In hindsight and looking at the image above, I should have seen Charlie's paint-splattered fingers and included more of them in the frame, but I had become so focused on the color and pattern of the paint on the wheel that I never really saw his fingers as I shot. I have already made a mental note for next year...
goo, goo g'joob
