The Ballet
 My oldest daughter, Joi, was part of the 2002 Dance Recital for Vicki's
Dance Studio on Saturday, May 25 held in the Pineville High School
auditorium. This is Joi's second year in dance and she's doing wonderfully! Last
year she was a part of the Angels group which dances to Christian music.
This year she was invited up to classical ballet and we recently found out she
has qualified for the next level. She really enjoys getting to use her pointe shoes!
This was my second attempt to take pictures using a Sony Mavica FD-88 camera. They were
originally taken at 1024 x 768. Then I resized them to 640 x 480 to put on the
web. The photos below are thumbnails that link to the 640 x 480 pics. If anyone
would like to see any of the 1024 x 758 files, I could post them by request.
I didn't do any special work to these pictures, other than cropping a couple
of them down and on a couple of them I took out other dancers so Joi would be
more highlighted in the picture. But I didn't do any color adjustments at all. I did the
few adjustments in IrfanView,
a handy image viewer/manipulator. Here goes!
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This is a shot of the entire group near the beginning of the
performance. Joi is the fourth from the left - she's the one in the air. (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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I cropped out the arms of the two girls who were on either
side of Joi and it gave a nice picture just focusing on Joi. (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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I also cropped out girls on either side in this picture as
well. They weren't really in the picture, just their arms and legs. This
gave a much cleaner picture. (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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Joi was in the back row for a good part of the dance. This
is her second year and a lot of the girls in this group have been dancing
longer. She's really advanced very well, according to her instructors. (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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This is my favorite picture of Joi. She had just received
her 2nd year trophy and was watching others receive theirs. I was so proud
of her! (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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After the recital we stopped out in the foyer to take a
couple of pictures. Probably should have gone outside or used a flash but
she's still beautiful! Lori got her a set of earrings and the balloon bouquet.
My mom got her a beautiful pendant. (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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The Three Musketeers! Faith and Hope enjoyed seeing Joi on
stage as much as Joi enjoyed seeing them on the same stage two days
earlier in The Wizard of Oz. (Click
on picture for larger view.)
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Videos
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A brief video of Joi. I don't know the name of the song but
it was pretty.
02JoiBallet-005.mpg (560 KB)
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The first part of this brief video Joi is hard to spot because
she's in the background. But once they start moving around she's easy to
pick out. She's so graceful!
02JoiBallet-006.mpg (448 KB)
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