Two in the Same.

So I had planned to post the following but as I was typing there was a fire so.. here are two photos.




So, as you can imagine, working the night shift has opened me up to shooting ALOT of high school sports. Latley, its been lots of hockey and basketball...neither of these are particularly my favorite sports to shoot and there isn't a lot of visual variety especially in the dungeonous gyms that grace the face of Southern New Ham
pshire. The light is terrible but the moments are there still. I've taken it upon myself to start looking around me instead of focusing on the mainstream action. Personally I find shooting behind me more rewarding than shooting the same thing that everyone else in the world is shooting, particularly when referring to high school sports. None of these photos ran in our paper because I didn't submit any of them. I'm still not sure if there would be a place for them here. Maybe I'll pitch it once they have progressed a bit. Here is the first batch of sports features from the last week.

Hey It Snows Here!!

Not much can be said by a guy from a town south of New Orleans, LA about snow. I mean, hell, most people don't even know that there is land where I come from, and outside of a long shot, there might not be land there for much longer. So when 8 inches falls on a city that you've lived in for two weeks at the longest, it's pretty crazy. I was supposed to work on a multimedia project this morning on my own accord, but woke up feeling like booty so I got a bit more sleep and went to work. I feel a little better now aside from the fact that I'm hungry now.

I hope you find yourselves a little warmer and less white...unless you like the inverse. In which case, you should come shovel my driveway for me. Here's a photo of a couple of crazy kids wrasslin in the street in Nashua.

3 for nearly 3

Wow I'm doing well with these posts. Here, there are four things that people hold to be god. The Red Sox, The Bruins, The Celtics (when they're good), and The Patriots. In case you are inept to the thought of New England sports, you know that the Patriots are 16-0 in their regular season and won their first playoff game last night. What you also might not be thinking about is who they'll be playing in the AFC Championships. People around here are defiantly thinking about that. Many people wanted to see a rematch of last year's AFC Championship, which had the Patriots facing off against Payton Manning and The Indy Colts. I think we all remember how that one ended, especially since the Pats didn't make it to the Superbowl. Anyway, today Patriot fans were out to watch who their opponent will be. The game was Chargers vs. Colts. The place....The Garden. No, I'm not talking about where the Celtics play, or the New York Rangers, I'm talking about a hole in the wall bar in downtown Nashua.

Anyway, here is the photo. Turns out that Peyton wasn't as interested in the game that he was playing. He was instead worried about the dart game going on between Matt Medeiros and his lady-friend Becky Britton. No wonder the Colts lost.

A New Leaf

I've committed myself this year to updating this thing regularly. Even if it's just one photo and its nothing that makes international news. For instance, today I'm updating with a high school basketball photo. Nothing spectacular but just something to show what using strobes at a basketball game will do. This gym, as they say, was a real dungeon. Ambient Exposure was ISO 800 f/2.8 80. Shutter speed 80! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? So what do you do? You throw some lights up and you can drop your ISO to 640 boost your shutter speed to 250 and your aperture to f/7.1. It's doing things like this that make me feel really lucky to own a pair of lights.

Anyway, here's a photo!

No More Hate Mail Please

So when you start to get hate mail regarding the fact that you have't updated your blog in four months, its more than time to update it with the things that you've been working on. I can take a hint people. Since the last post I got a two page spread in Time Magazine and was hired on as a Staff Photographer at a newspaper in Southern New Hampshire called The Nashua Telegraph. I covered the New Hampshire Primaries and am going in to start my second week at the paper today. Hopefully this week will be as exciting as the last. Things have been hectic, what with graduating from college and immediatly packing my life i

So how about some multimedia you ask? Here's a little sump'm sump'm.