GULFTON — There are days when making a living as a photojournalist doesn’t seem like the best idea I ever had.
Last Saturday wasn’t one of them.
Newspaper work , at its best, can be interesting and far from routine. But, as a guy I was working with on a story once commented, “You don’t work for a newspaper. You’re with the Comical.”
True enough – but that “with” is the difference. I’m not staff, so when there’s nothing coming in (which is the usual case these days, for most newspaper freelances) I get to go walkabout.
And I found a bunch of other people going walkabout, too….
Or rideabout as the case may be…
As well as a couple of politicos, basically waving the flag – they’re already well known in the area.
Houston City Council District J representative Mike Laster (center) with staff….
Sylvester Turner, a local with a long resume in city and state government, now running for mayor.
and an assortment of dancers, martial artists, skateboarders, teachers and students from Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center just up the road.
