Water to the Garden
Wyoming media day portraits
About a month ago I did a series of portraits at the University of Wyoming’s football media day. The photos are for our Wyoming football tab that hit newsstands today. Shooting portraits at media day can be extremely hit or miss because the players are being pulled a hundred different ways to do interviews. Luckily, I had three friends who helped corral the players for me. I ended up setting up a little studio at one end of the stadium away from the action so I wouldn’t have random people walking into my backgrounds. I shot all the players using a three-light setup with no modifiers to give the football players a very harsh, tough look. This is something I’ve done this fall for all of the football portraits I’ve shot.
Camping at the library
I will occasionally hit up the library when I need a feature for the newspaper. Tonight they were having a camping event with crafts and s’mores. This isn’t the shot that’ll run in the newspaper on Friday, but it was my favorite. It’s kind of an in-between moment as some of the kids waited their turn to roast marshmallows on the fire.
Getting medieval in the park
I do a lot of feature hunting, meaning I don’t have many assignments so I have to go found something visually interesting going in on the community. I was trolling – driving around aimlessly hoping to catch something interesting – when I spotted something crazy going down in one of the city parks. I found a group of people dressed as medieval warriors fighting with sticks and axes. Of all the trolling I do in Cheyenne, this was by far the strangest thing I have ever found.
Cheyenne East vs. Cheyenne Central tennis
Last weekend I brushed off some football rust and today I brushed off some tennis rust. I haven’t shot tennis in a couple years. Luckily for me some clouds from an incoming storm provided great light and this player provided a quirky moment during the match when he went after a ball.
