THE CREW

I'm being immortalized.  A video crew from the Wisconsin State Historical Society has been "filming" [sic] me all weekend as I went about my business of making race photos during one of the busiest races of the season...Indy Car.  The Society is featuring several of the state's attractions for a new exhibit to be housed in a new facility which is slated to open in 2027.  I guess I will be preserved forever for posterity if only in video form in a museum.
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They wanted to show the track through "the eyes of a photographer."  Since I am the senior photographer, by virtue of the fact that I've been shooting races at this track for 59 years, the task fell to me.
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I spent most of the weekend being trussed up in wires and microphones and doing "scenes" over and over and over until the videographer got what he wanted.  It got a bit tedious until I mentioned that, in my job, I don't get to do things over.  I have to get it on the first take or I don't get it.  I allowed them some latitude as I don't understand their needs very well but I said I'd give them three takes of a situation and that was it. Interestingly, they snapped right to it.
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It was interesting and I certainly gained an appreciation for the difficulty of their jobs as they did for mine. The blond lady was the main "journalist" and I asked her if she, in fact, kept a journal.  She allowed that she did not which was in line with every other journalist I have met...and there have been many.
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My question to all of them was, basically, "How can you call yourself a journalist if you don't keep a journal?"  I've never received a satisfactory reply.  Perhaps there needs to be a new noun to describe what they do.  I'll leave that to someone else to ponder.
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One more thing of note.  This all happened in extreme heat with today's heat index being 105°F. (40.55°C.)  The on track actual temperature was 134°F. (56.7°C.) IT WAS DAMN HOT!  I'm certain I will be able to wring a quart of sweat out of my shirt.
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BEST IN LARGE.