Earlier this week, I spent half a day with Basic Training photographing a Nav\Med exercise. I put together a 5-photo essay that is posted on the ALERT training blog here.

I felt that the story would be better told in a 10-shot essay. Given the current format for presentation on the ALERT website, this wasn’t really an option, so I chose 5 photos. For y’all here, you can see the full story in 10 shots:

You can note the cool motion-blurred flash effect that I described earlier today.

This was a challenging day of shooting for a couple reasons. First of all was the pouring rain. Typically, when it starts raining, I stay inside. Something about carrying $2,800 of non-waterproof camera gear makes me a little skittish even in a light drizzle. To say nothing of the absolute deluge on Tuesday. I really didn’t want to miss the events though, so I came up with a way to safely shoot in the rain. Look for a post later today on how I did this.

It was also challenging from the sheer perspective of hiking back to the middle of nowhere in lush green wilderness, way off the beaten path. I realized that I love this kind of adventure photojournalism. It is really awesome. I love it.

So, I am way behind on uploading my stories here. I am staying on top of workflow, thanks to the lessons learned at PhotoJ. Anyway, here is a 5-shot essay on the Basic Training River Crossing Competition:

These same photos showed up on ALERT’s website as Basic Training Unit 39 – Day 29