WG Photo Blog

Brittany and I went and took pics of the Bobcat Golf team today because we had a photographer who wasn’t able to finish the assigment. We took it, had fun, and got some interesting photos of the Golf team. My favorite is the shot of Brittany because it shows how much wind there was on the course today. I can’t imagine hitting a 1 in. diameter ball 400 yards in a 15 mph wind!!! These guys are amazing!

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Today was a new experience. I recently found a passion for the sport of tennis and today I got to photograph our tennis team at practice for this weeks Colonnade. This is Rodrigo Yamauti, who is a friend of mine and a damn good tennis player. I watched in awe, wondering how anyone can return those serves. Every once in a while, I had to remind myself that I had to take photos because I kept getting caught up in the action.

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On Saturday, I had my very first engagement shoot. I when I say first I mean first. I have never even been on one with LaCour. I have seen a lot of their photos and been around them enough doing after ceremony portraits to get an idea of how they work. It went very well. I learned a lot and got some nice shots in the process. If you want to see all of my favorite images, click below.Click here to see my favorites.

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These images aren’t technically going to be out until tomorrow’s paper, but what the heck, I’ll go ahead and post them now. The first one is from the September 11th candle light memorial service that was held on Front Campus on Monday evening. It was a very nice memorial and a somber reminder of that very tragic day. The second one is for an alcohol story about freshman and some new policies on campus. That image was very last minute. I didn’t even know I was going to take it until about five minutes before the editorial staff walked downtown to get dinner on production night (last night). So we walked in the restaurant and I asked the waitress if she minded if I took some pictures of her liquor bottles. She didn’t and I got what you see here. Hope all is well.

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These are my favorites from last weeks Colonnade. The first one is of Dr. Leland (the president of the university) having a discussion with students about anything they want to talk to her about over lunch in the cafeteria. The second one was a random fluke that turned out to be pretty cool. We didn’t have a Bobcat Beat done, so I had to go and do it last minute on Wednesday night. I walked out of the building where the Colonnade office is and saw a crowd of people, ignored it and walked up to the first person I saw and asked the question of the week for the beat. After a minute I noticed those people weren’t going away, so I walked over and saw this falcon with a dead squirrel. I wasn’t brave enough to try and get the shots with a wide-angle lens, so I quickly ran back to the office to grab a telephoto, which is part of the reason it is a little blurry. It was pretty amazing; apparently the falcon just swooped down out of nowhere and killed the squirrel right on Front Campus. This falcon was huge too; he stood about 18 inches tall, with a wingspan of about 3 or 4 feet. Any critiques are always welcome.

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