Friday night football

This was my first attempt at football at night under the lights, I ended up having to use the strob flash, blah. It was at the University's stadium I was expected better light, I also found that I need to keep on my editor for my press ID so that I can avoid crazy security people who think I am carrying around a 300 on a monopod for the fun of it, just let me on the field man!

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Soccer and a .38

I have a feeling that I am going to be shooting mainly sports since I am working the 2-10 shift but hey they're fun. Here are a couple from today.




Like my white background it is a garbage bag, my editor didn't tell me I was doing this until I was already 30 min. away so I couldn't grab a background, thankgoodness the gun store owner was a good sport.

FYI bullets don't stack well they tend to slide and roll alot grrrrrr!!!!!!

A Little Rusty

Well I am back to posting. I want to assure those of you who check this and care (Jarad) that i have been shooting since the last post but I just haven't been posting them. I will do much better now that I will be in the office most days. Yes folks you heard right I have a job, a real full time job with BENIFITS. I love that fact, I haven't had Med. insurance for a looonnnng time.

So sit back and get a kick out of what I have done my first two days back in the newspaper world.

So this little girl was the honorary captain to honor her sister who died a couple years ago of cancer. It was a fun assignment for the first one back, she was very shy and very aware of the camera but I like this composition even if it is an extreme vertical, sometimes it just works out that way.



First time shooting field hockey and it was at night under lights, blah. I will get better.

It was a Veteran's information fair and he was one of two veterans there for the hour I was before the soccer game. He was a good sport I followed him around. The photo isn't all that interesting but hey it works.

Yeah for soccer, although I did find a couple times during the game I was watching it instead of shooting it, I have to remind myself that I am there to get the shot.

The End of an Internship

Well I am officially not the intern anymore. Sadly I don't have another job lined up yet so I will be hanging out doing "real" jobs until I get connected up with another paper. I will spend my summer going to reenactments and having fun basically avoiding being an adult yet. Stay tuned photos will be posted eventually.

Coach's advice

Remember how coaches always told you to look where you are wanting the ball to go and it will get there...here is a visual of how that works.

notice the feet they are pointed toward the pins


Still pointed toward the pin but the ball isn't going that direction
He just kept looking at the camera luckily the bumpers where up so the camera and I were saved.

What have I learned

Well I only have a couple weeks left as the intern, although Randy did ask me to stay on a couple weeks to cover while a staff photog goes on vacation. I have been pondering the question have I learned anything while here? The answer so far is YES, I will just have to wait and see what the editors of all the positions I have applied for think.


Ice Cream on a very muggy 98 degree day, he couldn't eat it fast enough to keep it from melting.


Worms don't make great subjects but the kids racing them where very into it.



Tis the season of graduations, as a paper we covered at least 10 of them and there are only 3 of us. Thankfully they were not all on the same night.



Princess Tea Party: Mini-princesses' reactions were all over the board, complete amazement, fear, and not all that impressed. The mothers were very camera happy.



I got overtime on Saturday to go to a concert, the Mark DeRose Band opened for Blues Traveler. It was a great concert and I did a slide show for it, which I will post in a day or too once I find it on the server.