TIMBER!!! Sports.

This has taken me a little longer to put together then I thought it would and a hand injury made typing a pain last week but it is worth the wait.

We did a preview of the Timbersports event at thanksgiving point for the Chronicle and it looked like a cool event. I had seen the lumberjacks compete on ESPN on weekday afternoons when I had nothing to do but watch fringe sporting events. So when Tony said he could get me a press pass to it but we would not actually need the photos I took the opportunity to experience Timbersports live and up close.

The event featured 6 disciplines for the lumberjacks and also a boom run and tree climb.Starting with the chopping and sawing events there was the spring board. Where the competitors would make a hole to put their first bored in then a second hole for their second board and finish by chopping through a block on the top.
The next event was the stock saw where they would use one of the two stock chain saws that were on stage. The one to make two cuts fastest one the event.
The next event was the standing block chop where they would chop through a block when they were standing on the stage.
They then did the underhand chop where they were standing on top of the block they were chopping.
That marked the end of the chopping events and left two sawing events the first being the single buck where they use a manual saw with teeth that are like 3 inches long.
Then the final event for was the Hot Saw. For the Hot Saw the participants use their own modified chain saw. They will use motocross bike engines or wave runner engines so they are loud and fast so fast they often have the chains pop off because of the speed. They would set up glass behind and in front of them is to prevent the chain form leaving the stage.
After the lumberjacks left the stage the woman moved into the spot light for the boom run. It was exciting to watch and fun to shoot.
The final event of the day was the tree climb. The guys race up AND DOWN a 60 foot ploe.
The race up took a lot of focus, skill, power, and coordination between the feet and arms.
The race down took a lot of guts! Down the racers did a free fall with each only having to touch the tree three times on the way down.
To close I want to share some of my favorite pictures form the day. The standing block chop produced my favorite ones, and the wind kicked up a lot of sawdust adding to the amount already coming off the saw itself pictured in the first one.

Presidential Visit

I know that I have not done a very good job when it comes to posting on my blog but I want to make an effort to post regularly I my goal is to post something once a week. I want to start off slow because if I set the bar to high I will never meet it I will make my first regular post with President Bush.

President Bush came to Salt Lake and during his time here he was going to give a presidential service award to a former U student. So I went down to take the picture of it. I got there and went through all the security checks that were intense enough they made me start to question whether or not I had anything illegal maybe I accidently had something on me I should not have had on me. I was taken to a flat bed where I could take pictures from. After a long wait the Air Force One finally touched down.
Bush came out, waved.
Gave Rick Pehrson the service award

Turned and got into his Limo and left.

I figured that is how it would go but it was a pain in the ass to wait for over an hour to see him for 2 min (if that). Well it was still a cool experience that I’m glad I had the chance to do.

I also have the thank Rick Egan for his help at this event. Your help was the best Thanks again!

Focus Documentary

One of the projects that kept me really busy this semester was my documentary project for my documentary photography class. For the project I fallowed the craniates from the Focus party running for student body office. It was a lot of work I took just under 1,500 pictures for the project and then spent another week laying out the project. The following is the final lay out, let me know what you think.

In addition to my lay out I let Pace Johnson use my photos for a video he was making in one of his film classes. He could not use synced sound in this video so he took his audio and used my pictures for some of the visual. Check it out I think this is awesome.

Spring sports

Ok I was horrible about doing posts the last semester but it was a hard semester with the fresh start of summer I want to take a quick look back at what was my spring in sports photos. The following are the photos my spring had to offer.

Gymnastics

Women’s basketball

Men’s basketball
During the trip to Provo I was on the sideline and was nearly kicked every time the cheerleaders had came out so I started to take pictures of the flips and got this kinda cool one.
I shot golf for the first time this spring

Spring wrapped up with the Red and White football game
This was from the MUSS flag football game but it was my favorite photo of the day.