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Awards – New Jersey State Open

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For the most part, I stay on one side of the room to photograph ballroom dancers. There is a “good side” for the room that has awards, banners, or other displays that frame the dancers well at a particular competition. For the New Jersey State Open, they have a huge pink neon sign hanging from behind the stage where the emcee, DJ, scrutineers, and other organizers manage the flow of the competition.

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©TimeLine Media – New Jersey State Open – awards

They have a great elevated view of all the dancers and judges as they work throughout the weekend. There is a lot of action up there too – gathering score sheets, computing the lineups of all the couples, and making sure everyone is announced as they placed. It is a lot of work! Sometimes they get a little goofy as the days go on.

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I really admire how well they pulled off the competition. There were no long delays in getting scores entered, and awards given out. They are usually photographer breaks, so I don’t mind, but they got everyone back to dancing quickly! We ran very early all weekend – it shows their experience in handling so many entries. Thank you!

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©TimeLine Media – New Jersey State Open – awards lineup
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©TimeLine Media – New Jersey State Open – awards lineup

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Travel Day

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After a long weekend of covering the 2013 New Jersey State Open, we are heading home. After the travel day today, I will be working on making sure all the photos are looking their best, then I’ll upload them to the proofing website so that all of you can view and share them. We will also be organizing them by the man’s number so that it will be easier for you to find.

Thanks to everyone that stopped by to say hello this weekend! It was so nice to catch up with people that we have seen before, and to make some new dance friends. We were so glad to hear such nice comments from people that stopped to watch the slideshow and look for photos on the tablets. We just tried to keep the photos as updated as we could, so it was only organized by time danced. When they go up on the website we will have them by dancer number to make it easier to find your photos. At least you will only be going through photos of familiar faces!

Thanks also to Susan and Roxanne Ardary, and new co-owner Tom Rzepnicki for having us be a vendor for their great event! It was very smoothly run, and I am sure they will have great reviews from the teachers, dancers, and guests that spent part of their weekend with them in Atlantic City. Stay tuned to the blog for more details on the progress of the photos. And as always, all the images will be posted to the proofing website when they are ready:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

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Day 2 – New Jersey State Open

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Today we do Day 2 of the 2013 New Jersey State Open. We had a great day yesterday covering the first day. The heats were very smoothly run throughout the day even though we did not have many long breaks in the action. The judges, organizers, and emcee kept things running early for most of the day. We have another good collection of photos so far, and we are ready to make more today. Stay tuned for updates on when they will be ready to view sometime next weekend. Thank you!

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©TimeLine Media – Day 2 New Jersey State Open awards and banner

This is my best hope at this time for the timeline. Of course, we still have to finish all our coverage today. Afterwards we need to travel home before starting the post processing of all the images. Of course we will sort the photos by gentlemen’s number. Being that we are more familiar with the dancers, this should not take that long. If you have any special need to have images earlier, please let me know. At this point, I have already had some requests. As soon as I can get you photos, I will accommodate them. Thank you!

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