Photographing night high school football is one of the more challenging events to shoot, throw in torrential rains and you’ve got one wicked and wet evening. I was shocked this woman and all of her children were braving the horrible weather- turns out she was the coaches wife. Talk about dedication!
Homecoming games are a great time to get something more than just the usual action football shots. I made these feature photos at Longmont High School’s homecoming game against Skyline.
I think I’m being pigeonholed with all this track… LOL! But lucky for me, as a former track runner, I love the sport and am happy to shoot it.
The University of Colorado hosted this year’s Big 12 Meet and it was really fun to shoot. I really like the shot of Billy Nelson coming out of the water pit as he runs the steeplechase because of the reflection of his foot. Also, I thought framing the disc thrower between the chain linked fence was an interesting approach to photographing the event. Lastly, CU won the meet and there were some really fun reaction shots at the end of the meet. My goal was to incorporate the highly recognizable flat irons into the shot because they are in a lot of ways an icon of this university.
I was assigned to go photograph the state track meet in Denver and I had been waiting all day for a Longmont girl to pole vault. Elizabeth Stover is the reigning state champ and comes into the event at heights well beyond her competition. I didn’t expect much reaction from her because the win was fairly easy and expected but she gave this nice little wave to the crowd after breaking her own state record. I really like the beautiful sky and her modest, relaxed wave.
I’ve been over to Longmont’s Centennial pool a few times now and have been struggling to get a good shot of the divers. Today I finally took a step back and tried something looser, something more graphic and I thought it worked out.
My favorite thing about shooting track is all my options. There are so many events and so many opportunities to make interesting images, I am never bored. Today I focused on the pole vaulters. These guys expressions made my day.
Swimming is one of my favorite sports to photograph. Although most high school dual meets don’t produce a lot of emotion the action is predictable. The athletes have a rhythm that is relatively easy to follow and capture. The decent window lighting in Longmont’s Centennial pool didn’t hurt either.
I made this photo while shooting a track meet at Longmont High School. The kid’s team didn’t win the relay race, it didn’t run in the paper but I liked it and thought it was fun to try to make something more artistic at a sports shoot.
I had to go over to Alexander Dawson High School today and photograph the new boy’s lacrosse coach Travis Aldrich. The paper asked for both feature photos of the coach and action of the game.
Focusing on the fast paced game and the sidelines at the same time is pretty tough especially when you are paying attention to the sunlight, tying to find clean backgrounds for the action photos and keep close to the coach. I found it was best for me to get some action shots first then get up close for the feature photos of the coach.
