Football Season

I've been busy lately.  I was asked to do team photos for 3 local teams.  I researched it on the web and think I came up with some pretty good ideas.  I only had 5 minutes with the football team and it is not my favorite photo of the series.

I also did a photo essay on mushrooms and managed to sneak in some details about moss too.  One of my microscopic pictures was printed.

At our home teams football stadium I am shooting 1/640th ISO 6,400 f/2.8 and still getting some underexposed photos.

Football

Practicing on the local soccer players all summer, seems to have paid off.  I'm having a much better time with Football this fall.  I've been using just my 70-200 f/2.8 lens and my crop sensor camera and getting passable photos.  Sure a full frame camera and a 400mm lens would be nice, but I still can't justify the price for either of those items and if I owned a rig like that and then dropped it and broke it, I would probably cry.

Printed on Page B-8 Sept. 29th

An Award this Week

I was very happy to win this award from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association this week.

The Feast Continues

September 22 Page A24

September 22 Page A15

Looking for layers and reflections these days.  Bouncing my flash whenever I can.

Dogs, Kittens and a House

It's feast or famine, as usual and I don't mind that.   This week was a feast.

Sept 15th A-1

Sept. 15th A-13

A-10

Busy fun weekend

Three jobs this weekend and some hard news.  I got to meet Larry Stegall of the Bremerton Sun at a fishing protest.  This was the first time I have covered an event where I was not the only photojournalist.  The Sun had a reporter there too.

Larry took the same picture of the man holding a net and his picture made the front page of his daily newspaper.  I got a front page photo as well, but the news was a bit more "furry".

A week ago I turned in a photo essay based on the rocks movement.  This one was unique for me due to it being an ongoing event.  I did it over the course of several days and I had a lot of control over the direction of it unlike when I show up for a one time event and shoot what ever is there.  I knew I wanted pictures of kids painting rocks, so I asked the community if any rock painting events were coming up.

Lastly I photographed a teddy bear drive.  I had no information about this event before hand.  When I got there I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the event was sponsored by the yesteryear car club.  I've photographed those folks a few times before and they are always happy to have me at their events.  I think they appreciate that I am a local too.

Compost Pile Fire. Spot News

For this one I took my daughter along and let her try out both of my cameras.

Soccer Campionship

Some reprinted photos

A reprinted photo in the sports section

Three photo essays

June 16th A-28

June 16th A-23

June 16th B-6

Seattle

As luck would have it, some local kids were riding the ferry to Seattle on the same day.  I took this picture with my Ricoh.  The is the second picture from my Ricoh that has been printed.  26 more to go at the singles rate to pay for the camera.  This photo was taken through the window of the ferry and it still worked out okay.

Inspirational Student Awards

I don't feel particularly inspired by any of my photos from this job.  I was tired and the room was extremely dark and a bit hot.  This might be the darkest dinner I have ever worked.  I'm fairly happy with the technical quality given the challenges presented by this dark room.

Nikon D7100

17.0-50.0 mm f/2.8

ƒ/3.5

 

17.0 mm

1/80

 

4000

Flash (on, fired)

ƒ/2.8

 

17.0 mm

1/50

 

2500

4-H Fishing Derby

Again I left my long glass in the car and just brought the wide angle.  This job had me walking on docks and having big bulky lenses and multiple cameras could have been hazardous.  If I fall into the water I only want to dunk one camera and not two!  A girl did fall in.

I thought to try for some silhouette shots as I was driving to the job, but that did not work with dark trees in the background.  Fill flash was a must for this job with the sun to everyone's back.

June 9th A-11
I really liked the picture on the bottom right.  I waited until the yellow fishing bobber was in the frame before I shot.

Nora Maylin 8 and Becky Maylin from Port Orchard wait for a nibble 

A line of children fish off the dock in the background while Karl Swalander wrestles for

control  of a trout he just landed.

Ed Swalander helps Karl Swalander age 8, both are from Elma.

Seraphina Short age 6, is shown how to properly display her fish before a family photo is snapped.

From Right Damain Flores age 11 and Jack Seabert-Olsen age 10 take a pause from the

 action to admire trout that they have already caught

This was my favorite shot since is was so candid and I just happened to find it.

Aaron Arnold 10 of Elma proudly carries his prize winning 23.5 inch rainbow trout to the measuring station.

Aaron Arnold 10 of Elma lays down his prize winning catch  to be measured.  The monster trout registered at  23.5 inches.

From right Panhandle Lake camp staff Jeff Wetcel and Krag Unsoeld relax and chat in the shade while looking out over Panhandle lake.