Derek Montgomery Photography >> Blog » Funny http://www.drockphoto.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:36:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ice Cold Freakout!! http://www.drockphoto.com/2010/05/06/ice-cold-freakout/ http://www.drockphoto.com/2010/05/06/ice-cold-freakout/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 02:12:56 +0000 DRock http://www.drockphoto.com/?p=733 Just about every year since I started working at newspapers, I've photographed a polar bear plunge.  In Duluth, this takes on a different dynamic since the lake people are jumping into is Lake Superior and you could get the same reactions in August as you do the middle of February since the big lake is so cold!!  And it's the reactions that are always one of the things you are looking for during these events because they are everywhere.

This year I was only shooting for  myself so I decided to focus in on the facial reactions and put together a graphic of all the crazy faces that erupted after a dip in the 30-some degree waters.  You get every kind of reaction from "what the hell was I thinking" to "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" to "suh.. suh... so... col-col-collllddddddd."  It's what I love from this event.

Lastly, I do know this is coming about 10 weeks too late, but since Duluth is forecast to get 2-4 inches of snow Friday, I figured now would be an appropriate time as any to make this post happen.



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This is from the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, IN.  I'm just getting around to cleaning up my desktop of all the clutter and came across this shot again.  The moment I saw it, I thought of Beaker from the muppets.  This was at the end of the race so Wisconsin's Craig Miller is probably as tired as much as Beaker is shy and tormented.  One thing that was not heard down the final stretch of course in Terre Haute was any "meep, meep, meep" and I can safely say Miller wasn't electrocuted, set on fire or eaten by any large creatures like our favorite friend from the Muppets.

Just to clarify... that's Craig Miller of Wisconsin (left) and Beaker of the Muppets (right)

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