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Notre Dame football practice

March 25, 2012

Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees takes off on a run during a spring football practice on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at the LaBar practice fields. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Notre Dame freshman quarterback Gunner Kiel smiles as he talks to members of the media after a spring football practice on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at the LaBar practice fields. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

South Bend Rally for Religious Freedom

March 24, 2012

Alicia Nagy, center, listens to a speaker with her children Julia, 3, and John Bosco, 1, during the Rally for Religious Freedom on Friday, March 23, 2012, on Jon R. Hunt Plaza in downtown South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

A woman prays during the Rally for Religious Freedom on Friday, March 23, 2012, on Jon R. Hunt Plaza in downtown South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Darin Dahms in “The Player King”

March 24, 2012

I recently shot a portrait of Darin Dahms for an advance the Tribune ran on his play, “The Player King.” The production is a one-man play written, directed and performed by Dahms about Edwin Booth, the brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. I used a pretty simple lighting setup: one Canon 580 EX fired through a shoot-through umbrella at about 1/32 power. Dialing the power down this low allowed me to mix in the ambient from the theater’s house lights. Since it was a one-man play I wanted to show Dahms alone on the stage in front of the theater’s seats. After the portrait, I shot a quick video interview with Dahms explaining the play.

Darin Dahms poses for a portrait dressed as Edwin Booth, the brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth, on Monday, March 19, 2012, on the stage at the Battell Center's auditorium in Mishawaka. Dahms is set to perform in "The Player King," a one-man play inspired by the lives of Edwin Booth, Junius Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Following the Lincoln assassination, Edwin Booth is forced to leave the stage and questions whether he will ever be able to return. The play will be performed one night only at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 23. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Darin Dahms rehearses a scene from "The Player King," on Monday, March 19, 2012, on the stage at the Battell Center's auditorium in Mishawaka. The one-man play inspired by the lives of Edwin Booth, Junius Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Following the Lincoln assassination, Edwin Booth is forced to leave the stage and questions whether he will ever be able to return. The play will be performed one night only at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 23. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Urban kayaking

March 24, 2012

I was pretty desperate for a feature on Thursday. We’ve had some unseasonably warm temperatures in South Bend as of late so I wanted to shoot some people out and about. Luckily my fellow button-pusher Robert Franklin mentioned that the local kayaking club was planning on taking to a stretch of river in downtown. Three members made runs down the river, and I got a few decent action shots of them hitting some waves along the way. One frame from that ran on the front page of Friday’s Tribune, but I liked this frame better as a sort of juxtapose. Hopefully I’ll get another feature out of them before fall, but I imagine I’ll have to avoid kayaking features for a few weeks now.

Members of the East Race Kayak Club cross Colfax Avenue as they make their way back to the launching point on the river on Thursday, March 22, 2012, in downtown South Bend. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

Richard Mourdock receives Indiana Right to Life endorsement

March 24, 2012

Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock stopped in South Bend on Thursday to announce an endorsement from the Indiana Right to Life PAC. Mourdock is campaigning against fellow Republican and incumbent U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana’s May primary. The winner of the primary will face U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., in the general election.