More football, always more football…last week’s high school game was at a stadium I had never been to before. Having not been there I always hope that the lighting is good, but I’m almost always disappointed (I was spoiled with nice light at high schools in Texas). This shot is a little dark but I really like the motion and action in the play…
I have been really busy lately and can’t wait to share some of those photos with you but many of them have not yet run so they wait for their debut on the blog. I’ve also been busy again covering the University of Tennessee football games. For the second year I am shooting up in the president’s skybox but this year am only doing that for the first half. That allows me to either move on to another shoot that day or walk around and see what I can find that is interesting in a sea of orange, stay tuned for some photos from that too. I am teaching photojournalism again at Pellissippi State Community College. I have some students who are wonderful photographers, they just need some focus so to speak. I’m enjoying teaching it’s a nice break from shooting for a day. I’ll let you know how the class goes as we get further along. And just that quick, I’m back to editing for the rest of the day…
Saturday I got called to go back to the football game that got rained out the night before. I already a couple of assignments for the day but was able to get it in between the others. It had continued to rain through the night and even in the morning but the rain held off during the game for the most part. I ended up making some nice photos, it’s always a treat to have a daytime football game (most of the time football is played in stadiums that are close to caves for lighting). I liked this catch photo in the end zone for a touchdown, I like that you can see all the other players on the field just watching and the guy reaching out just as he grabs the ball.
Last weekend I went to shoot high school football on Friday night and ended up in a flood. It started to rain just as I got the the stadium so I got out my umbrella and rain covers and went on up into the press box to stay dry. After about a half hour they called the game due to the rain and lightning so I marched back out to the car and call it in. It was raining harder than I have seen it rain in Tennessee and I noticed that the ground parking lot was starting to fill in one area so I grabbed a camera and went stomping around in the flood water. Stomping around in flood water is something I used to do in Texas a lot, it would flood in Texas on a regular basis and always in the same areas and I know it sounds weird but it was kind of fun, in that it made nice photos. Here is one from my flooding last Friday night…water, water everywhere.
I have been crazy busy! Last week I didn’t shoot football so that is why there is not a new photo up. I went to the fair instead for the Knoxville News Sentinel. I had a very short time to be there before deadline but I liked this shot of the girl riding the carousel. Soon I’m lots of new photos to share, I just have to wait until they run.
Last fall I made this photo of downtown Knoxville for the Book of Lists. Tracey Trumbull (the former director of photography at the Knoxville News Sentinel) had called and wanted a specific look to the photo. We talked it over and came up with a few locations that using a tilt shift lens would work from. I tilted the lens and it gives the photo the feeling of being scale model when done correctly. The photo has now been published and I wanted to share what the cover of the book looks like, enjoy…
So today I found out that the photo was entered in a contest and won Best Cover from an industry trade group called Data Joe. That’s always pretty cool, and here is what the judges had to say…
“That Knoxville News picture is hands-down the best. To me, none of the other journals come close. Awesome picture = awesome cover. Reminds me of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, which is never a bad thing, right?”
“A very fresh, modern take on a cover. Kudos to the photographer for a kick ass tilt-shift photo with thoughtful treatment and execution.”
This week’s post from high school football is not from the field, it’s before the game even started. The team was getting ready to take the field and one of the players tried to climb the goalpost to get his team fired up. I like the light and the feeling of this shot and the fact that it’s something different.
