So on Thursday and Saturday I had the opportunity to photograph the Emerald City Qualifier.This is a speech and debate qualifier for speech and debater students of high school age wanting to go to regionals. One of the cool things about it was that (if I remember correctly), not counting nationals, this is the second or third largest S&D tournament in the US!
It was also really challenging to shoot at times...there were several rooms that had extremely low and bad lighting...
...but there were also those times when I couldn't be shooting in more perfect lighting!
One thing that amazed me was all the different things that go on at a S&D tournament other than debate. Here are a few of them...
Juggling: Quite a bit of juggling went on and there were several excellent jugglers there!
Chess: Each day a few debaters found time to play a game or two of chess (how...IDK)
Frisbee: A fun game and easy to do between rounds when you have nothing else going on. :)
Music? (bluegrass...in Seattle?): Yup! Several of the guys were musicians and brought their instruments with them, so they jammed around playing...bluegrass...it was really cool and they were really good!
Dancing: Fun, relaxing (I guess), and enjoyable! Look at them go! :)
Annnd...its getting late so I guess I'll stop here and in a day or two continue with part two and get into the competitions more! :)
