Part III of my happy photo essay features more images from last fall’s state and regional high school marching band competitions in St. George, Utah. In Part I the energy was potential; things were about to happen. In Part II it was kinetic. Things were moving, happening.
Here the energy is . . . unusual. You’ll see things you might see every day somewhere else — but not in a marching band field show. Are you ready?
Unusual
There’s a story about the rabbit, whose (human) mother I met while we stood in a line together outside the stadium. On Friday said rabbit sprained her ankle in warm-ups, badly enough that she couldn’t perform that evening. Saturday morning was devoted to finding a way to tape it up so she could perform. By Saturday afternoon, and again in the evening’s finals, she was scampering all over the field, as a big, happy rabbit in a marching band field show should.
Finally, I wonder what it means that none of the photos here are of the American Fork High School Marching Band, which is well represented in the other parts of this essay, and which won both of that weekend’s competitions. Just a photographical happenstance, I suppose. It’s not as if they never use props. For example, I remember large scissors and spectacularly bad hair, not so very long ago.
Next time, in Part IV, we bring all things potential, kinetic, and unusual to an end — at least until the first local marching band competition begins on Saturday.
