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

Storm of the Century 2k7, part 2

After the snow started to melt, the ice came, along with the icicles.

New Mexico Sky: My Old Friend

An old friend dropped by this afternoon. He always cheers me up when I take his picture.

Storm of the Century 2k7, part 1

Last Friday it started snowing. It snowed all day Saturday. Saturday night the wind started. The nice thing about that was it blew the snow off our satellite dish.

Clovis News-Journal: Another Weather Feature

Over the course of 24 hours we got around a foot of snow. The thing about the job is I don't get snow days. First I had to dig out so I could take Arielle to work then drive around and find some features. It wasn't hard to find them. The hard part was finding a place to stop and not get stuck in the snow.

Clovis News-Journal: A week's work

We had a week off from the snow and ice before another snow storm hit friday night. These are a couple photos from that week.

Clovis News-Journal: Weather features

Last weekend we got hit with 3 days of ice. You know what that means.....

weather features!!!

Looks like more snow and ice for this weekend. I thought I lived in the desert....

Clovis News-Journal: Portrait Outtake

I shot a portrait of a new pastor for the religion section. He was a pretty funny guy. So the first thing he does when I tell him to head over to the awesome stained glass window is to assume the "frisk me" position.

Clovis News-Journal: EPAC tournament

I cover the annual EPAC basketball tournament the first week I was back. This is the tournament where all the small schools form around the area compete. Overall the basketball was pretty aweful, but there were a lot of good feature opportunities.

This is the mascot from the Grady High team.

Clovis News-Journal: Features from the New Year

These two photos actually ran in the paper. Both I had time to find an interesting situation and wait for something to happen or things to line up just right.

I felt very refreshed after my vacation. Time to start making awesome photos while getting paid for it again.

Airport Fun

Over the course of 4 days around Christmas, I think I spent one of those in an airport.