Friday night football with the Times
Middleton High School drum majors gather before the start of their game against Robinson High School.
Back at the Florida game against Charleston Southern, Chris Zuppa from the St. Petersburg Times offered me a ride along while he did a day of assignments. Of course, I jumped at the offer that he didn’t believe I would [...]
UF Football Vs Tennessee
Saturday was the first game of the season with the weather lined up perfectly for shooting football. Charleston was after dusk and Troy I got soaked while assisting on the field. It was a weird game of football, with neither team really putting the ball up in the air.
As anticipated as this game was, [...]
Saturday Night Shutterbug
Saturday night Charlie and Amanda came by and we messed around with some strobes. Oshi the cat even got in on the portraits. Amanda had that awesome blue chair in her car from going to the beach earlier, so we pulled it out and made some frames in the street. All-in-all it was a fun [...]
Lost by the Stands
Been a while since I’ve posted, trying to get the new blog up, but apparently my web server has descended into a cesspool since the last time I really tried to do some stuff with it.
Here’s some recent stuff you missed:
UF Basketball vs Miami 3/21/09
UF Basketball vs Jacksonville 3/18/09
UF Basketball vs Auburn 3/13/09
UF Basketball vs [...]
Studying Light
Found a girl in a windowsill this morning after I took a test. I’d seen people in them before and saw the photo, but finally had my camera on me. I’m working on moving my blog over to my website, so expect that soon.
The Battle for Mount Dora
I spent the weekend in Mount Dora, Fla., following a civil war reenactor for a project. It was great getting to know all the people who do this for several weekends a season. Here are a few photos from the weekend, I’ll continue to post more and will also have the final project up at [...]
Back to the the basket
It’s finally spring basketball season again. I shot my first game of the spring on Saturday and it feels good to be back in it.
Sunday morning, I went on a road trip with a few of the guys to Five Guys in Ocala. Only trouble was that the google maps directions were [...]
Protest Redux
The protesters returned, this time to Turlington Plaza. It was nice to see a small group of pacifists protesting silently off to the side, asking each side to talk to each other. Wishful thinking but a good step.
When Israel and Gaza protests collide
UF student Marine Sfeir shouts during a protest supporting Gaza under the band shell at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza for a rally Monday evening.
Voices calling for peace in Gaza carried down University Ave. from protesters supporting both sides in the regional conflict as the two groups converged at the Bo Diddly Community Plaza in [...]
Ad Nauseam, All-American
A fumble escapes Team Black quarterback Russell Shepard during the second half of the Under Armor All-America High School Football Game on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009 in Orlando.
It was a night of firsts for me. It was the first time shooting a recruiting game and the first time I did not have fun at a [...]
Happy New Year
Last night I took part in a small but loud new year’s party. Loud because instead of fireworks we had a bag of M90s. It was a great way to send out 2008. That, and watching Vanderbilt finally win a bowl game.
It’s less than a week until the big game [...]
Making Cookies with the 5D II
No, I didn’t actually bake cookies with it. But that would be a delicious feature to add. Canon should look into that. Just to get some practice shooting video with the thing I filmed my relatives making cookies this evening and threw together this. It was all shot with the Canon 50mm 1.4.
Making Cookies from [...]
Let it Foam?
I’m visiting family in Greenville, S.C. for the holidays and it doesn’t look like snow is in the equation. So the foam that a shopkeeper had raining down to simulate it is probably as close to it as I will get this season. Shooting with my new full-frame camera has been great. It’s [...]
To the Top!
Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford watches a video play on the ceiling of an elevator to the roof of Rockefeller Center during a tour with fellow Heisman candidate Colt McCoy.
Tonight we went with Heisman candidates Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford on a short trip from the Hilton to Rockefeller Center. This was an excursion I missed [...]
Three Will Enter, One Will Win
I’m sitting in the lobby of the New York Hilton working on photos from a press conference with the Heisman invitees. The bar is crowded with tourists and a small mob of professional autograph seekers stalks the lobby for Heisman winners. They are a ruthless bunch, keeping their helmets and photographs hidden in bags with [...]
Hot Chicks and Hobos
I was going through my photos from this semester earlier and came across this photo again. I wasn’t sure if I liked it at the time, and I’m still not, but I figured I’d share it. The guys on the right were lurking around the girls while they strutted around promoting an energy [...]
So a Season Ends
UF coach Becky Burleigh comforts forward Megan Kerns after the second half of their game in Round 3 of the NCAA tournament in Gainesville, Fla. Texas A&M won 2-1.
Florida soccer lost in the Round of 16 on Sunday afternoon. It was a great season to cover and a great last game to witness. [...]
Supersize it
Tired of posting small photos, from now on they’ll be larger.
Catching up with Time
A member of team Redbull wakeboards in a pond in Gainesville on Friday afternoon.
I got a phone call Friday afternoon from a friend who specializes in wakeboarding photography. A group of guy were going to hit a fountain in Gainesville in thirty minutes. Hell yea I’d be there. It was over in in [...]
Parties and Cranes Ease my Pains
Friday night and Saturday morning I worked on some freelance stuff for one of the departments here. Turned out to be a pretty fun event with a great band and good food. Reminded me of some of the better weddings I’ve shot or worked when I was with a caterer. I even got [...]
Palin & Me
Turning off the back country roads through the one-horse town of Oxford brings you to a suddenly bright and visually wonderful place. You have arrived in your own future, the retirement city of The Villages. While traffic pace is set by stop lights, golf carts whiz by like some sort of futuristic transport [...]
Obama & Me
It was one of those long, hot days in the sun so rewarding that the burns carried with it can be ignored. Let me start at the beginning of Obamaquest. I jumped from shooting tennis at UF into a Zipcar and drove to Jax, getting there well after 1 p.m. For any [...]
The Great Undie Dash
Last night I covered the Great Undie Dash VIII(I think that was the iteration number). The dash is a charity event that can only take place in college. Several hundred students arrived at Turlington Plaza just before midnight to strip down to their undies or costume of choice and dash around campus for about a [...]
Rocked like a Gator
These two guys were just hanging out near our tailgate before I shot the UF-Miami game and saw me messing around with my camera. So they just had to have a portrait. And if they ever stumble on my blog they can get a copy of it.
It felt so great to be [...]