Vegas Baby!!!

Today I’m heading out to Las Vegas. This time I’m going to Vegas for fun we are going down to celebrate Derek’s 21st birthday. This will be my first trip to Vegas after my 21st birthday I’m looking forward to it. This will be fun!

My blog is about pictures so normally I would not write about a trip before I go and get pictures but this trip is for fun my last trip to Vegas was for work and I got my strangest picture once you see it you won’t forget it so be warned that it is kinda sick.

Any way it was an adult softball tournament this was the first time I had shot an adult tournament. I was shooting and there was a play at the plate and I got a good picture of the catcher tagging out the runner at the plate it was a cool shot. The sales were not so great at this tournament so I got sent with my picture and the team picture to try and make some sales. The team loved my picture an were looking at all the other pictures we had taken.

They were looking at the pictures for a while as they were the last game before an afternoon break. Well one of their players asked “If I go take some swings in my jockstrap will you take a picture?” I laughed a little and looked at Ken who responded “If you buy it we will take it.” I thought that would be the end of things well he went to the bathroom. One of his teammates said to me “He is going to do it. He is not joking.” He came out, I grabbed the camera and…

He bought his copy and 5 of his teammates got a copy also. I keep one at the table because it was so funny. Well there were a few people still around when he did this and saw it. Well word got around that I had taken the “shot of the day” so for the rest of the tournament we had people coming over and asking “do you have the shot of the day? Someone told me I had to see it.” That was followed by “OH GOD THAT IS DISGUSTING!” Only in Vegas.

Wild Wild West

This past weekend Sports Imaging went to shoot the Utah War. The Utah War is a cowboy shooting competition, the company did it last year to but I was in Steamboat Springs shooting softball. This year I got to go with Ken, Rina and Kristy. Cowboy shooting is a bunch of people that come together to shoot single action rifles, pistols, and shotguns, and they dress in old fashioned cowboy clothes as they shot.This was my first time ever taking any pictures like this but with all the cool clothes I thought this would be fun and it was. One of the best outfits was a nun outfit I like that a nun is packing all this heat.

The shooting was intense they had a series of targets set up that had to be shot in a certain order. The stage I was shooting on they had 10 pistol rounds then 10 rifle round and then 4 shotgun shots to finish the stage. Each stage had a story to it my stage was about someone burning 50,000 pounds of army supplies for some reason. So the shooter started with two hands on a torch then yelled “burn the wagons!” they would then shoot the pistol, they would than move 6 feet and shoot the rifle and shotgun form this new position. The best time I remember was around 18 seconds without missing a target.

Some shooters were not as serious about the shooting like this woman who gave me a big smile as she loaded her shotgun rounds. I wish I could remember her name because everyone has a cool cowboy name they go by at the shoots such as Wasatch, Sandpatch and Slick Taxes Willy.

Last serious thing I have to say is thanks to Dale (I can’t remember his cowboy name) He was the man in charge and he gave me all the help and information I needed all weekend he was so good to work with not to mention he thought I was the one in charge and that Ken worked for me. What a good guy! Thanks Dale!

On Saturday morning after a cool night of camping (it was 36 degrees) they were scheduled to start shooting at 8 well at 7:30 they started so I rushed over there and as I was shooting a cowboy showed up late and was dressed only in his underwear with an over coat and a top hat sucking on a cigar needless to say I had to get a picture of that.