鈥淕etting the Shot鈥� features the photography of 911爆料 students and recent alumni whose work illustrates the intellectual curiosity and big thinking characteristic of our 911爆料.
It’s been a wild ride for Corey Favino since graduating with a communication studies degree in 2018. The Narragansett-based digital content creator has worked with the footwear company Sperry, the yerba mate maker Guayaki, and bracelet brands Lokai and 4ocean. And his success is all the more impressive considering Favino first picked up a professional camera just three years ago.
Man versus nature
What I find challenging is battling the elements. In Rhode Island, specifically, the weather can change within minutes, especially when it comes to astrophotography. The forecast can be reading clear skies, but you get to a location and if there are a few clouds or it鈥檚 even partly cloudy, just those few clouds can completely change the shot. In a night shot, ideally, you want it 100% clear.
That moment when the magic happens
On a solo trip to Washington state, I found this old abandoned train trestle. It was an old piece of track in the mountains that sat over 400 feet above a river. I had to scale up a 15-foot wall just to get to the tracks and part of them had been burned in a fire, so walking out to the middle of the tracks was absolutely terrifying. When I got there, I just sat and watched the sunrise by myself and, at that moment, I couldn鈥檛 even take a photo because I was so blown away by the beauty of where I was. I just soaked it all in for about 20 minutes before I took my camera out. I felt more alive than I鈥檝e ever felt.
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