Taking the Big House

The Utes had a huge opening game this year at the Big House facing Rich Rod and his new Michigan offence.(Unlike a team down south that chose to play Northern Iowa in their opener) Tony Chris and I all went to Michigan to cover the game. It was a good game with a scary second half. I had some good shots this game the fallowing are a few of my best ones. The one photo I was asked most about was this one.Lennie texted me right after it happened and on my way up to the press box U fans were asking if I got a picture of Asiata running over the ref. I wish it was a moment later but I at least got an ok picture of it.

Going to Michigan

For the Game Guide for the Michigan game Tony wrote a story about transporting the teams’ equipment to Michigan and asked me to get some pictures. So I went to Wednesdays practice and after the team was done the equipment manager and his team loaded the truck so it could be driven the 30 hours to the big house. It was an impressive to see how fast they got everything from communication equipment, water, power aid, helmet parts, medical equipment, fans and player bags all checked and loaded in a short amount of time.

After it was all loaded Don Wehrli, who has driven the truck for 15 years, locked it up and prepared to start the dive with help from Dean Espinoza who was going to share driving duties along the way.

The most surprising part for me was when I found out that they had to do this all for home games to, but they have to move everything from the Smith athletic center to Rice Eccles so they have no week off.

Ioana’s Portrait

Eearly this summer my friend Ioana asked if I would take her portrait. I agreed because I think my portrait work needs improvement and it was a good chance to work on them. It took a while to schedule a time but we got it in a couple weeks ago just before school started and here is a few.I saw some stuff I would change if I went back and did them again but let me know what you think of them.