Clovis News-Journal: Golden Gloves Boxing

It's only about a month old now, I guess I've been kind of busy lately. Now that things are settling down, I can get caught up on here.

Last month, Clovis hosted the NM Golden Gloves State tournament.Given the involvment and support by Clovis' Chuck Haas, I can see why it was held Clovis.

Along with spending 2 1/2 days shooting, I found the time to put together a slideshow form the event.

Clovis Golden Gloves Boxing

Clovis News-Journal: Feature Saturday

In an attempt to get caught up on posting, here's a feature I shot inn a slow Saturday last month.

Goodbye my lover, Goodbye my friend

Clovis News-Journal: Back log of Sports

I shot the NM State Basketball Tournament at the beginning of March. Shooting the tournament completely burned me out on sports. Wehn I get back to Clovis afterwards, it happened to coincide with a long stretch of almost no home games.

Here a a few frames from the past month.

Clovis News-Journal: Tornado Aftermath

Saturday morning I got up at dawn to document the destruction from the previous night's tornado. I was out directly afterwards but couldn't see the extent of the damage until it was light. Here are some photos I made in the aftermath.

Clovis News-Journal: High School Softball

I've been in a funk lately. It's not that I don't feel like I'm producing good photos. I think it's more that I'm not pushing my boundaries and I'm producing a lot of the same stuff. I haven't posted anything lately because everything looks the same lately.

Last night, I shot another softball game. Actually I shot a baseball game and a softball game. I find baseball mind numbingly boring. Softball on the other hand, is interesting. I think it has to do with the people playing more than anything else. Baseball players seem much more homogenized. Everyone eats sunflower seeds, they all call the batter or pitcher by their number. If they have a two digit number, for example, it's always two one not twenty-one. I'm not saying that softball players don't do this they just don't seem as cookie cutter.

Primary Colours

I've been trying to make take more photos that make me happy. This is one of my happy photos.

New Mexico Sky: on going

I still love the sky.

Anyone for Tennis?

Wouldn't that be nice

A retreat from the norm

Arielle and I went up to Colorado Springs to visit some friends this past weekend. The weekend ended up involving wedding shopping and playing with Alyssa.

A Free Hour

I had an hour to kill in Portales after I shot the Eastern baseball game before I headed over to Portales High to shoot basketball.

Escape

Sometimes I want to fly away from here.

Clovis News-Journal: Softball and Swimming

It's softball time. I got one frame I liked from the day, not bad for the third time I've ever shot softball.




After the game I went over to the pool to meet up with a swimmer to get a shot for a feature on him. I got there a little early and was very happy I did.

Clovis News-Journal:More Mascot

I've been shooting her all school year, so why stop now.

Clovis News-Journal: Baseball Practice

Yep.. It's that time again. Since I shot this practice, I shot one baseball and 2 softball games and I'm already sick of shooting it.

To recap:

Football -- I never got sick of shooting it.
Volleyball -- I wgot all volleyballed out during the state tournament.
Basketball -- I got sick of it after a month.
Baseball -- One practice and 2 innings of a game and I'm already sick of it.

Clovis News-Journal: Wild Art Wednesday

Just a feature from the other day.

Clovis News-Journal: The New Fire Truck

The Clovis Fire Department bought a new truck recently. I had the pleasure of going out with them while they showed off some of the capabilities, like the 100 foot ladder.

Yes, I was up 100 feet in a basket attached to a fire truck. Sometimes I absolutely love my job. Especially since it had just snowed that morning. That made my photos a little more dynamic. I was having so much fun, I didn't notice the 30 degree weather or the wind.

Clovis News-Journal: Lazy Saturday

The day pretty much consisted of feature hunting. I checked my usual spots and nothing, then did two laps around town. Still nothing. I next decided to head downtown and wait for something to happen. Before I even parked my car, I see these three kids on skateboards. So I chase them down and hang out with them for the next hour.

Clovis News-Journal: Friday Night Lights basketball ed.

Friday night lights... Usually this means football. Given football is over except for the superbowl then the XFL after that. What?

You mean the XFL is dead?

When did that happen and why didn't anyone tell me?

shesh...

Anyways, here is my new version of Friday night lights.

What started out to be another Friday night basketball game turned really fun, very fast. This was the first time I was at a high school game where they turned out the lights and used a spot light, Chicago Bulls style, for the starter introductions.It made my evening.

quote of the day

"The point is to take your photography to the edge of failure and then take one step over, and see what happens. Then take a step back and live there."

gerik parmele - apad