Fun show at The Depot. Caught the first four songs and had to bounce. Great band, great venue.
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Fun show at The Depot. Caught the first four songs and had to bounce. Great band, great venue.
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Seems like I’ve been photographing a lot of kids this past week. Above is Ashton Neumann with his happy glasses after he got his dose of the H1N1 vaccine.
Madison White, Porter Templin and Joshua Apgood working on a video project at Dilworth Elementary.
Kids in a bounce house at a charity event. None of these photos were published in the print edition.
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Expectant mother Tesa Rasmussen receives an H1N1 flu vaccination at the South Main Public Health Center Wednesday, November 4 2009. At right is her husband, Aaron Rasmussen.
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That’s Real Salt Lake midfielder Andy Williams above. I just don’t get to shoot enough soccer. Great playoff game Saturday, Salt Lake vs. Columbus. Real scores in the final minutes to win 1-0. Very cool.
Yeah, I love ball heads. Especially headless ones on Halloween.
This was a great save by Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando. No ball in the frame. He knocked it out so quick. The frame with the ball wasn’t as beautiful as this one, so ball go bye.
Fabian Espindola— as Rick Egan would say— takes a tumble.
Robbie Findley scored a late goal for the win. It was a great goal, but it just wasn’t a great photo, so I went with this one showing the fan reaction to Findley.
After the game I tracked Findley and got this moment. He’s signaling to his entourage in the stands.
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Here’s a beautiful photograph that was never published. Every fall newspaper photographers are sent out to capture the changing of the season.
I got the call one day, with the reminder that, “It’s got to have people in it!”
I drove up Farmington Canyon after a light dusting of snow and there was not a soul in sight. But there was this beautiful scene as the sun snuck out through the foggy clouds.
I was unaware that another Tribune photographer had also gotten the fall colors assignment. His photo ran in the next day’s paper. Was it because there were no people in mine? No. His shot had no people in it, either.
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Those infernal refs. Always running in front of me.
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TCU’s Ed Wesley (34) leaps over BYU’s DB Brandon Bradley (5) for a first half touchdown.
TCU’s Joseph Turner (24) lets out a yell after scoring in the first half.
TCU’s Jimmy Young (88) pulls in a touchdown pass ahead of BYU’s DB Brandon Bradley (5).
BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall yells as his team comes off the field.
Max Hall is sacked by TCU’s Cory Grant (57).
Max Hall is sacked by TCU’s D.J. Yendrey (55, front) and TCU’s Wayne Daniels (96).
Max Hall walks off the field after fumbling the ball.
Max Hall on the bench with the score 38-7. At left is Harvey Unga, right is Dennis Pitta.
A BYU fan epxresses his disappointment with the officiating.
Grass stains on Max Hall’s jersey.
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Couldn’t resist photographing this sign spotted during a tour today of a homeless shelter.
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On assignment down in Short Creek a couple months back and the last thing I ever expected to find was this old school Vans truck with logos that have been cooked in the desert sun for at least a couple decades. Way cool.
Lexxi Galloway, Abby Hone: “I sit in a padded room. I’m often mistaken for a dummy.”
Mattias Kasparian
I was too freaked out to ask her name.
Ervin Amaya
Britany Egan: “I’m a patient who killed her doctor and has a brain.” Gage Barney
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Took a shot at the BYU vs. Utah State game tonight. Above is a sequence (Utah State’s Bobby Wagner knocks the ball from BYU’s Spencer Hafoka), and the rest are black and white. I took a lot of ribbing in the press box for converting these to black and white, but the clarity of color in my Canon Mark II cameras at high ISO is more embarrassing than a guy trying to look serious old school by converting his photos to black and white.
BYU running back JJ Di Luigi is brought down by Utah State’s James Brindley
BYU running back Manase Tonga (bottom of the pile) dives into the end zone
Max Hall
Fans taunt defender Kejon Murphy while Luke Ashworth celebrates a touchdown
BYU’s Luke Ashworth (left) celebrates his first half touchdown with teammates Braden Brown (center) and O’Neill Chambers
Chris Randle knocks the ball away from Manase Tonga
Kerwynn Williams leaps
Harvey Unga dives into the end zone for a touchdown
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Wow. Spent last night photographing the Juggalos and the band they follow, Insane Clown Posse.
I passed up the chance to photograph ICP when they came through in ‘97 or ‘98. And I’ve always regretted it.
Just before they took the stage I was led, with another photographer and a some dude dressed up as a circus clown, right in front of the stage. A security guy told us that as soon as it “got crazy,” we had to leave that area immediately.
It didn’t take long to get crazy. But before it did, the security guy pointed to the guy in the clown outfit and asked me, “Who is that guy?” I said, “I have no idea.” He grabbed the clown and kicked him out.
It got crazy fast. Before I knew it, Violent J (above) and Shaggy 2 Dope were spraying the crowd with Faygo soda. My cameras got a little splashed as the security guy led me out.
Kudos to Insane Clown Posse for, wait, did I just say, “kudos to Insane Clown Posse?” Yeah, I did. Great photo access. No rules and no hassles.
I definitely want to photograph the Dark Carnival again.
I was sent to a small business with an international reputation for its commitment to excellence and hard work. (No, it wasn’t the Oakland Raiders.) This company does not advertise and does not accept walk-in customers. It succeeds by being singularly focused on perfection and quality. It is so high-end that even its clients are at the top of their respective fields.
At this business there are no excuses. Only hard work that pays off in tangible results. That really fired me up. Their mentality was infectious and I jumped right into it, starting to shoot.
I cleared my mind of everything but the process, putting all distractions aside. I didn’t check my e-mail, I didn’t answer my phone, and whenever my aging equipment caused me to miss a shot I simply moved on to the next moment putting aside anything beyond my control.
When it was over I walked out feeling… no… realizing that anything is possible. For the first time in a while I waded into the edit taking my time and looking at each photograph as if it had the chance to be a masterpiece.
I wish you could have been there to see these people who take life by the throat and never compromise or surrender. I left the place feeling invigorated and refreshed, and ready once again to focus on quality over quantity.
Let’s hope my regained sense of pride in the craft can survive exposure to the real world.
I guess that’s up to me, isn’t it?
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You know that photo on the front page of the newspaper? Sometimes this is how it comes together…
The assignment: The busiest of Utah’s state-owned liquor stores.
Time of shoot: 10:30am on a Tuesday. I’m wondering, are people buying a lot of booze early Tuesday morning?
I walk in and introduce myself. The clerks go, “This isn’t the busiest store!” I look around and sure enough, the large store is empty.
Concerned, I call in. An editor: Don’t worry about the busiest store angle. The story’s about a report on liquor sales. You’ve got time to work it. It’s for the front page.
The phone in the store rings ten minutes later. It’s someone from the newspaper calling to let them know that a photographer would be coming in this morning. We all laugh.
One of the clerks won’t be photographed so I’m down to one subject. I start following her around working every angle I can think of. As often happens when I show up somewhere to photograph busy, it’s eerily slow. She says, “It’s usually busier than this.”
The office calls. Something has come up and they need me downtown pretty soon.
Since this one was for the front page and there wasn’t much to work with I send in eleven shots. Way more than normal.
The story goes live on our website with five of the eleven photos in an automatically-generated photo gallery.
No one at the paper notices that all five photos in the gallery show the same clerk stocking the shelves. Only the angles are different.
A reader left this hilarious comment:
And another:
By the time those comments appear on our site I’ve already been rushed through two other assignments. More and more that’s the way it is.
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Tribune photographer Chris Detrick was doing a photo shoot in the studio yesterday so I picked up the iPhone and shot 462 stills to make a time lapse video.
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Last week the Utah News Photographers Association announced the winners of the 2009 Photojournalism Competition. The quality of work coming out of the Utah photojournalism community is at the highest level I’ve ever seen. So many talented people and so many amazing photographs.
Oh, I know. You’re wondering what the photo above is, right? It’s a photo I took from my car while driving through a blizzard. I liked the colors and it was clearly a different photograph so I entered it in the Pictorial category which is all about light and color and art. The photo took third place, with judge Damon Winter (a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer with the New York Times) saying, “Just an interesting image, minimal and clean, a happy accident with wonderful mood.”
It’s also one of those photos that, when announced as a winner, results in silence from the audience. You can almost hear everyone thinking, That photo won? Sure enough, at least one other winning entry also silenced the room. Thankfully, it wasn’t mine.
One year I took first place in feature photo and when the photo came up on the screen a colleague yelled out, “What the hell is that?”
Other winners for me from the UNPA this year:
Illustration Second place, “The School Play”
Photo Essay Honorable Mention, “Raid on Polygamy”
You can see all the winners (from this year all the way back to 2001) at the Utah News Photographers Association’s new site, by clicking here: http://utahnewsphotos.com/
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Nate Kapple
John Rancifer
Jake Buck, Eric Porter
Ogden’s Denzel Swinton (left) and Logan’s Greg Vernier
Eric Porter
Thanks to Ogden coach Eric Eyre for access to his team’s locker room pre-game.
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The assignment was to photograph local resident Margaret Johnson as she watch President Barack Obama addressing the Senate last night. Look at the fabulous spread Mrs. Johnson set out for me. “All men need to eat!” she said.
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I love the photographer at lower left shooting simultaneously with two cameras.
USA forward Charlie Davies shoots over El Salvador defender Ramon Flores.
USA goalkeeper Tim Howard leaps for the save, but Christian Castillo’s shot is a goal.
Fans react to El Salvador’s goal. I’m not sure what all the hand gestures mean.
Clint Dempsey heads in a goal. No one great image of it, so the series.
Clint Dempsey.
El Salvador goalkeeper Miguel Montes after a USA’s second goal, by Jozy Altidore.
USA defender Jonathan Bornstein (right) and El Salvador midfielder Osael Romero.
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This was the scene outside the USA vs. El Salvador World Cup Qualifier yesterday. The most rabid fans of the USA National Soccer Team were outside Rio Tinto Stadium getting hyped up. It was awesome.
I’ll post photos from the game when I get a moment. It was amazing.
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I wrote a piece on photographing high school football for SportsShooter.Com. Maybe you would like it. Click the photo to go there.
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Sometimes you see stuff in the edit that you didn’t see on the field. Like Judge’s Peter Lyons getting a few fingers in his face. Other shots I liked from tonight’s first half action:
Judge quarterback Daniel Shiramizu, pursued by Ogden’s Danzel Swinton
Ogden’s #99 is Alfonso PereaCouldn’t send this one in (above). Number 89’s name not on roster. Other guy is Keven Oritz. Sorry 89, get a name next time.
Two angles on Nik Allred scoring a diving touchdown. Not in a good angle at all for this touchdown. Sometimes it’s a matter of luck.
And a horrible angle on this TD by Eric Porter:
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But I can’t blame the stupid camera for losing track of the game action. There was a lot to be distracted by when Juan Diego tied Bingham 3-3 in high school girls soccer today. Things like the parents behind me yelling at the refs. I’d heard parents yell at the refs before, but I hadn’t ever heard parents yelling directly at the opposing players before. And I’d never heard a coach talking smack to a player on the other team. Juan Diego’s Jenn Flynn can back me up on that one:
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