2010 Charger Girl Auditions: Day 1

I know what you’re thinking: FINALLY.

Yes I know it’s been weeks and weeks since Charger Girl auditions. What can I say? I have a problem.

If you knew how many times I’ve started to write this, then deleted everything and started again, you would be deeply embarrassed for me.

Some might say my goals are a wee bit unrealistic. A normal person would go into these auditions with the goal of coming back with maybe a couple dozen photos that tell the story of that year’s tryouts. Well, I’ve never been normal. In fact, I’m slightly mental. Somewhere along the way, I decided what I really need to do is get at least one good photo of every single person there. Going into it, I knew there would be at least 300 dancers in the first round. Given that I am a complete amateur when it comes to photography, there was a good chance that at least 2/3 of the photos I took would be complete garbage – too dark, too light, too blurry, eyes closed, etc. I knew I would wind up with a LOT of photos at the end of the day, and most of them would be crap.

I was right, of course.

In the end, I shot upwards of 3,000 photos, and wound up with about 1,000 for your viewing pleasure. Too many. Waaaay too many. You might want to pace yourself.

Normally at this point I would launch in to some long stream-of-consciousness narrative about my adventures that day, starting from the moment I opened my eyes in the morning. But you know what?

To heck with that.

You guys aren’t sitting on the edge of your chairs, breathless with anticipation to read all that I have to say. Nope. You guys want to see what happened. So, to that end, I’m going to get started on the photos from finals. And while I’m working on those, I hope you enjoy these shots from the first day of the 2010 San Diego Charger Girl auditions. [Click here].

(For the most part, the photos are in order by candidate number, so hopefully if you’re looking for someone in particular, you can go right to her. Also, please let me know if you have any corrections to the names. I scribbled them as fast as I could, but some were definitely guesses.)