Openings at the Chronicle

For those that don’t know each year the Chronicle does a opening edition that gets mailed out to students and alumni it is done at the end of summer and is mailed out before fall classes start. Any way instead of the normal 8 to 15 pages it is a full sized paper with full 6 sections. That took up a lot of my time because I got most the assignments on Tuesday night and they were due on the next Monday and it was the same weekend as the Softball tournament so I could not shoot a lot myself. My photographers did a great job but I still had a lot of assignments to do that I had to do after deadline. One was for the cover story about the Marriott Library reopening after the construction. We have an old photo of the library a construction photo and a current photo the cover looks really nice, wish I had a copy to post.

I had to take the current photo and I was trying to get as close to the pre construction photo as I could when I got back I realized I was off by a lot on my location in this shot.So I went back the next night and found that the old location would not work because of a new light pole and a new tree that blocked the view.
So not to waste the drive up there I turned the camera on Lana again having some fun.Then it got darker so I did some ghost pictures this one I wish I had the library more in focus.This was the best one of the night and is my new desktop picture on my laptop.

SELL, SELL, SELL

For two and a half days I was shooting a softball tournament of 8 and 10 year old girls. It was my first tournament for Sports Imaging in a while and it was tough to get back in the mode of getting a lot of shots that sell. I need batting running and fielding of each girl so there is not a lot of time to get interesting angles or high action.

On Saturday the final day of the tournament I got some good stuff. West valley had a great defensive inning so they were excited on their way back to the dugout. One girl jumped into her coaches arms.

It was way hot so another coach was throwing water to cool down his players and the pitcher welcomed the water with open arms.My favorite picture of the tournament took place during the 8:30 game it was early enough that the sun was casting a shadow when the runners came up the 1st base line making cool pictures. Like this one of the girl running right in front of me.I had to crop this a lot because the picture includes the full runner because a photo like this would not sell a tournament. I wish I had shot some full frame because I feel it is a little grainy.

Wyoming court date

A few weeks back Lana had to go up to Rollins Wyoming for a court date regarding her car accident she had in the spring so I went with her so that she would not have to drive all alone. Someone I will not say who (not me) was late getting up and someone (again not me) could not find their wallet so we were an hour behind schedule when we left. So that made the drive up fast with no time to stop so we could make the court time. We made it 5 min late not bad. Things went good for Lana.

On the way back I cracked out the camera and snapped some shots as Lana drove.
We had time to stop a few time one time we stopped at a reservoir just inside Utah.
I also got some nice pictures of Lana again.

Camera turned boredom

After Lana got her picture the tables turned and I began taking photos of her to kill the time before the News meeting.

Boredom

This weekend I came up to campus to shoot a soccer tournament but unfortunately they ended over 2hours early and I did not get any pictures. I came up later in the day because Lana was holding a news meeting so I was going to go to talk to the writers about photo request and all that fun stuff. Anyway this gave me a lot of time to kill. Luck for me Lana had a lot of time to kill too so I bet her she could not get my camera out of my bag and manage to take a picture of me. She almost did it is just blurry because she can’t figure out the thumb focusing.