Minor League Ball

I've spent the last two nights shooting the final stretch of the season of the Lake Elsinore Storm for a local paper. Although the lighting isn't the best, I really love shooting this level of baseball. you get almost unlimited access and the games generally never sell out so you have a lot of options when shooting from the seats. Which is something I do almost every game due to the size of the park you are better of shooting from the stands then the field.

Did someone say Fooball?

Well its that time of year again, I spent the latter part of last week shooting pre-season High School football. It was a great feeling to get back on the field and shooting practice it was even better to get some daytime shots. With the regular season starting next week I no longer have to worry about what to do Friday nights! at least for the next couple of months.

The Candy Lady

A few weeks ago I had an assignment to photograph a woman and the candy store she runs, this was a real fun one. She had a just about every type of candy you could think of. Some I hadn't thought of since I was a kid, and on top of all that she had soda's for every taste even a chocolate one! that she said tastes nothing like You Hoo! My main thought in photographing this was color! and there was ample amounts of it with all the different sugar laden treats in the store.

Harvest time

Well I shot this about two weeks ago but I haven't had a chance to post so I am doing it now

When an editor from a publication I regularly shoot for, contacted me about doing a 6a.m. Saturday assignment I wasn't to excited, but when she told me it was in wine country I had a hope it might be something to do with the ongoing grape harvest in wine country and my hope can true! I have lived in the Temecula Valley for over ten years now and have never had the opportunity to see the grapes get picked so this was a real treat. I arrived at the winery just before 6 a.m. with just enough light for me to get a feel for how the picking takes place and to give me some time to think about how I was going to shoot it. I already knew I wanted to get a shot of one of the workers unloading a basket into the gondola with a bit of motion blur, but other then that I was just going to wing it! As the light got better I noticed I could see the workers through the other side of the vines they were picking, so I found a good open spot in the vines and waited for one of the workers to fill the frame and clicked away. All and all I was very happy with the way my shots turned out that day, and it was really great to see the process happen.

Murder suspect

Yesterday evening I received a phone call from a reporter asking me if I could make my way down to the Murrieta police department and get photos of a murder suspect being escorted to an awaiting car that would take him to the local jail. The murder took place in February of 1996 and was of thirteen year old girl who had been dating the suspect (at that time he was seventeen). After the girl’s death he ran to Mexico and has been hiding there until August of 2007 when he was found in a Mexican jail under a fake name by a fugitive task force, he was being held for an unrelated crime. I was told that he would arrive at the jail around 5:30 pm and be taken to the car at around 6pm-6:15pm. Well after continually getting updates from the P.I.O. The move didn't take place until a little after 9pm making light a real issue! But the Fox L.A. station was there and their video light really helped me get the shots I needed.

Comic Con 08

So this post is a little over due but I really wanted to share my experience covering the San Diego
Comic Con. It took place July 24th-27th and it was an absolute mad house! It was sold out weeks before the doors even opened and saw around 100,000 attendees! I went last year and I have to say the amount of people seem to have doubled. With a majority of the focus being shifted from the comics and more toward Hollywood's next blockbuster. The true nature of the event seems like it is being lost! On the photo front you'll never find a place with more photo ops on earth, every time you turn around there is some new super-hero doing something human, it s truly a great time! I just hope they do something about the amount of people they allow per day. It saddens me to to say this but I think the convention has really out grown the town that gave birth to it!

Here we go!

So, I have really been against this whole Blog thing for a long time now, but I have found myself in past weeks reading other photographers Blogs and really kinda liking them. So I though I might throw in my two cents! and add to the already over-flooded Internet with my photos and back story's on how I made them. I hope to share my thoughts and experience's as a freelance photojournalist in this ever-changing news landscape.