James Brosher Photography

Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.

Sports

Girl’s golf player of the year portrait

My main assignment today was a portrait of the paper’s girl’s golf player of the year. The golfer goes to school in Oneida, a town about a two hour drive from Peoria on the edge of the paper’s coverage area. Unfortunately, there isn’t a golf course nearby so the background was the main challenge. On our way into the town, the reporter spotted a sign near the town’s grain terminal that looked interesting. I wanted to show that she came from a rural community so I decided to use the area near the train tracks as the background to help illustrate this.

Iben Thuroe, a foreign exchange student from Odense, Denmark, finished tied for second in the Class 1A girl's golf tournament this year playing for Mid County as a student at ROWVA High School in Oneida. Thuroe, 18, is the Peoria Journal Star high school girl's golf player of the year.
Iben Thuroe, a foreign exchange student from Odense, Denmark, finished tied for second in the Class 1A girl's golf tournament this year playing for Mid County as a student at ROWVA High School in Oneida. Thuroe, 18, is the Peoria Journal Star high school girl's golf player of the year.

Bradley basketball scrimmage

Bradley's Dyricus Simms-Edwards tries to flip the ball to a teammate as Charonn Woods wrestles for the ball during the red and white scrimmage on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, at the Renaissance Coliseum.
Bradley's Dyricus Simms-Edwards tries to flip the ball to a teammate as Charonn Woods wrestles for the ball during the red and white scrimmage on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, at the Renaissance Coliseum.
A Bradley cheerleader runs a flag with a letter "B" onto the court before the women's basketball scrimmage on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, at Renaissance Coliseum.
A Bradley cheerleader runs a flag with a letter "B" onto the court before the women's basketball scrimmage on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, at Renaissance Coliseum.

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Painful stroke

This is a frame from today’s Illinois state boys golf championship over in Normal, Ill. I was assigned to photograph another golfer in this group, but I couldn’t resist getting a shot of this guy’s expression. With that look, one would think that he just hit it into a 10,000 foot crevasse. He missed the fairway right and had to hit between a couple trees, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it looked.

Galesburg High School senior Logan Scott grimaces as he follows through after his tee shot on the 14th hole during the IHSA Boys Golf State Championship on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010, at the Weibring Golf Club in Normal, Ill. Scott landed the shot right of the fairway near some trees.
Galesburg High School senior Logan Scott grimaces as he follows through after his tee shot on the 14th hole during the IHSA Boys Golf State Championship on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010, at the Weibring Golf Club in Normal, Ill. Scott landed the shot right of the fairway near some trees.