I’ve been meaning to get this set of photos from my 24-hour project up since Monday, but I’ve been a little busy between subbing and shooting. Also, I was just plain lazy on Monday. It must’ve been the weather or something, but I slept on the couch for about 2.5 hours. Enough about my laziness though.

My 9th assignment for the 24-hour project was from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the bike shop in downtown Rochelle. Charlie and Kit Nygaard let me follow Charlie while he assembled a new bike in the shop that morning.

Charlie doubles up as a third-shift worker at an aviation facility as well as repairman extraordinaire in their shop along Lincoln Highway. I wouldn’t say there is anyting too fancy with my shoot, but I did enjoy being in the shop and talking with a couple who owns their own business.

This might seem a little selfish, but I never miss the chance to take advice from current entrepreneurs. I feel their information is invaluable. It’s nothing you can read in a book. It gives you an idea of how things work in your own community and I definitely learned a lot.

This kind of shoot was really easy to converse with the subjects too as they’re not doing anything extremely strenuous and I wasn’t worried he’d lop off a limb if I distracted him too much. You can’t really distract someone who is working with heavy equipment when shooting.

The Nygaards also gave me some cool ideas for a other assignments for this project too. Some that I’ll be pursuing in the next week or so. We have spring break coming in another week so I need to get on the ball right now. If you’ve got any other ideas, please let me know. I’d be happy to consider them.