Girls State Track
I covered the IHSA Girls Track and Field State Finals at Eastern Illinois University’s O’Brien Stadium last weekend for a freelance assignment. When I was working at the Herald & Review I had to photograph almost every event to cover all of our local athletes. This weekend was a little more relaxed for me. My [...]
Players of the Year
I photographed a few local high school athletes for some of the fall player of the year awards… Maroa-Forsyth’s Gary Scott was the Macon County football player of the year, LSA’s Morganne Criswell was the Macon County volleyball player of the year (for the third time) and Warrensburg-Latham’s Drew Dunn was the soccer player of [...]
First volleyball match
I shot my first volleyball match of the season tonight at Argenta-Oreana High School. I always forget how loud high school volleyball girls are… the shrieking noise that their lungs pump out is louder than a dozen Sun Chips bags. You’d think I would learn. The lighting was weird tonight. Everything was nice and even at the [...]
Prep football — Week 1
Tonight was the season-opener for area high school football and I got to shoot a good game between Central A&M and Unity. The weather was fantastic. The light was nice. It was a good way to start the year off. I had some frustrating computer problems while transmitting from the sidelines, but hopefully I can [...]
High School Workshop
I got the chance to go down to EIU last week to talk with students about photography at the Illinois Press Foundation/Eastern Illinois University High School Journalism Workshop. I’ve been helping out for the past several years, with the exception of last year when my then-pregnant wife was ready to pop at any moment. My [...]
State Track Jube
I drove down to Charleston to shoot the IHSA Boys Track and Field state finals Saturday at EIU… I don’t know if the heat fried my brain, but I had the hardest time shooting the celebration shots (jube for short) as athletes crossed the finish line. Nine times out of ten the runner crosses the [...]
Track Portrait
I shot a quick portrait of MacArthur’s Zhitavion Shelby last week in Decatur. He was academically ineligible to compete during his sophomore year, but came back last year to win three medals at state track. The photo request from the reporter wanted something of him holding a book in one hand and his medals in [...]