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Day in the life of Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert
Back at the end of May, I spent part of a day photographing Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert for a “day in the life” type of story for the Irish Sports Report annual issue. These types of stories have the potential to turn into a complete creeperfest for the photographer, but that wasn’t the case with Eifert. He was extremely chill and didn’t seem to mind me photographing him for several hours. Despite my creepiness, he still pounded a few drives more than 300 yards on the golf course, including one that we estimated at 371 yards.
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Red Bull RedBud National motocross
I spent most of my Saturday at work photographing motocross racing at RedBud in Buchanan, Mich. I have to admit that I don’t know much about motocross so the entire event was extremely new to me. I shot the same race three years ago for the Tribune as an intern, but luckily I was much more prepared this time than my previous experience. I really liked photographing at RedBud. The track officials were extremely friendly and didn’t harass photographers and scrutinize their every move (I’m look at you, Indianapolis Motor Speedway “yellow shirts”). This made it easy to move around and look for different shots during the races. Unfortunately, I had a battery die on my 1D Mark III as I was in the middle of the first race, leaving me only with a 5D and a 7D to shoot the second race.
Chicago
I spent a couple of days last week with my girlfriend in Chicago on a much-needed vacation. I’ve been to Chicago a few times mostly on business so it was nice to go just purely for fun. We visited the Lincoln Park Zoo, Shedd Aquarium, Navy Pier and Second City: all places I’ve never been in Chicago. It was a nice way to unwind from a very stressful month of work in June and find some visual inspiration along with way.
The skinny dream
For the past 10 months, the South Bend Tribune photo staff has been documenting the journey of a local woman, Kimmie Trethewey, who underwent bariatric surgery. My predecessor at the Tribune, Marcus Marter, shot a great deal of the story in the early stages, and I’ve had the opportunity to photograph Kimmie the past few months. The story is currently running in the paper as a series so I thought I’d share a few of my favorite frames of Kimmie.