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.

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.

Final Day Revue

For the last day of the revue I took the 400 up into the balcony and it did not work well at all it did not get much at all I got one shot that was nowhere near as good as the day before.So I decided to go back to the sideline where I could get some stuff but it was a challenge this time I got some different but still cool stuff. In all the Revue was awesome and fun to do, but by the end it starts to get hard because it is a lot of games in not very much time. If I have the chance to shoot it again I will do it again.