I recently donated my time for a good cause. I was invited to shoot the Canstruction 2018 event in my hometown of SATX. If you haven't heard what Canstruction is, here is some info from the AIASA website:
For the last decade, the San Antonio chapters of The American Institute of Architects and the Society for Design Administration have partnered to produce this creative community event at North Star Mall for the benefit of the San Antonio Food Bank. The competition challenges teams of dedicated architects, engineers, and contractors as well as students from San Antonio College’s AIAS Chapter to build amazing sculptures using canned goods. These supersized masterpieces are juried by a panel recognized community leaders who select the best from the entries. The winners are publicly announced at the Canopener Awards Ceremony attended by 250 industry and community members. Teams compete for awards in categories such as Structural Ingenuity, Best Use of Labels, Best Meal, Juror’s Favorite and Best Use of the Color Orange. Two Honorable Mention Awards are also given.
The Canstruction creations remain on public display at North Star Mall for two weeks. During that time the public is encouraged to cast its vote for the People’s Choice Award. The winner of that coveted prize remains on display at the San Antonio Food Bank for year.
At the conclusion of the event, all canned goods are donated to the San Antonio Food Bank. Canstruction 2015 generated 97,000 pounds of food which equated to 81,308 meals for the hungry. In its first decade, Canstruction® in San Antonio has donated an incredible 472,095 pounds of food for the hungry in the San Antonio Food Bank’s 16-county service area.
This structure was probably my favorite of the 10 submissions that I photographed. I'll post more as soon as I finish editing them.
Thanks mitesh. Interesting. What does this look like in color? TIA.
BTW I have reactivated “little tuna” and shot some fresh images.
Previously the last ones I had shot at the end of March this year.
Obviously the Sony A9 has kept me preoccupied.
Now that Fuji is coming out with their 200/2 it would be interesting to compare it with the 4/3 Zuiko 150/2.
Interesting is also that the new Fuji is about $6k, more than twice what I paid for my 150/2.
Both lenses seem equally bulky. So I would think the new Fuji is intended to enter “little tuna” territory.
No, I am not going to buy a Fuji system, but instead stick with Olympus and Sony.
I think though Olympus should update their 150/2 with IS, a new focus system, and release it as an m4/3 lens.
