BREAKING NEWS!!!

I have been sitting on these pictures for a while because there has just been too much work for me to post but I’m in class and don’t really want to focus on the class work because I was up till 1 writing a paper for this class I need a break so a long overdue post is in order:)

I have always known that breaking news was part my job but I just had not done anything breaking. Until the other week, I was out driving all over looking for a Dave Buhler yard sign for a illustration Lennie was working on. I finally found one and got back in to the office and Lennie said do you know where Steiner is. I did not have time to make sure I was thinking of the right place before Jim Fisher was in the office saying “Come on Tyler this is breaking news get moving!” I garbed my camera and my flash, and was out the door as fast as I could go. Anna filled me in on the car ride over. They had ammonia leak and had evacuated an entire block.

Once we there we found out that it was at the end of the leek and they were almost had it all cleaned up. So but I was there to get county officials being briefed by one of the firefighters. Then we went up to the building because it was safe. So I was shooting the firefighters cleaning up their stuff when the wind kicked up and made it hard to shoot but I still got some stuff.

After the wind had died down a bit I was trying to find Anna but I could not find her then she called and so had found a guy that was going to give us a ride back to my car because it was raining now and the car was far away.

Only a few days later I took an assignment to shoot a woman’s self defense seminar I was shooting it not getting much when my phone rang and it was Dustin our news editor telling me that Trax had hit a car over a by Rice-Eccles Stadium so I left the class and ran over to the accident. It was a bad accident the train had hit the car right on the driver’s side of the car.After having a problem dealing with the firefighters I was not getting much so I left to go edit my pictures at the office. This was an exciting experience that I enjoyed because no one was seriously hurt in ether event.

Back to school, back to work, back to massive blog posts!

This semester I get to take the great, supper fun class Mass Comm Law, and boy is it fun. In addition I have three other class and two jobs so keeping up on the post have been hard so I’m going to write on four assignments I enjoyed the last few weeks.

First up a frat house reopening, The Phi Delta Theta house began the steps to reestablish themselves at the U they hosted a BBQ during rush week and I wanted the shot of the BBQ to work but the dead space between the Phi Delts sign and the flam was too big for it to work.
Thankfully one of the alumni shared an old copy of the U’s yearbook with the recruits and gave me a useable shot.

Next I shot the Real Salt Lake Game the next night and this was the fastest soccer game I have seen. In most games the first goal is the end of the game because it’s soccer so there was a goal in only 40 seconds it was so crazy I almost missed it.

I shot this Real game with one of our new photographers Jarad Reddekopp. What can I say about Jarad? Um, well he is Jarad.

He has no style look at that ugly yellow vest what the hell was he thinking when he put that on in the morning?;)

During some of the down time in the game I was crowd watching to see what I could see and I found this shirt that made me laugh. I also found a HUGE MULLET but the photos i took did not do it justice.

Oh and I got some good action.The election is approaching so I got to do two candidates the first was U political science professor Luke Garrott he is running for city council and I went door to door with him and one of his volunteers it was quite interesting to be on the other side of the door and see the entire range of responses.

Spending time with a politician was a refreshing view that they are not always scummy ass holes. Luke was a nice guy and I enjoyed my time with him.

Mayoral candidate Ralph Becker hosted a free showing of the movie “who killed the electric car” and a gathering beforehand. So I shot the gathering but it was in the Broadway theater and I did not have much room to move around so I had a lot of hail marry shots of the group that worked I guess.

I wanted to get the Ralph Becker sign with a crowd and I loved this shot at the time but during editing I lost a lot of my love of it.

That concludes this massive blog I will try to keep up with more in-depth posts.