sports post

Since the last update I've taken quite a few more pictures. This post is going to be all sports, though. I've been gathering hours on the sidelines here shooting the multiple state final games that have taken place this month. None of the St. Louis teams that made it to the state final game won. All losses. Start of with some soccer at the Anheuser-Busch Center and then class 3, 4, and 6 football at the Edward Jones Dome. Lots of sad high schoolers. Oh, and for the last game I shot on Saturday I took the time to go shoot from up high. Managed to get that photo of the opposing team stretching over the goal line for their seventh touchdown. Lots of sad high schoolers.

Up to date

Might as well start this post off with a photo from a fire that seriously damaged a home across the river in Illinois. At first I was trying to shoot this from over the backyard fence, which was the first good vantage point I came upon, but I noticed people just kind of standing around in the yard so I walked around the block to the front and just walked right back to where the action was. I wish I could shoot more fires up close and wide like this. I was able to get off quite a few shots before someone noticed me and told me that, for my own safety, I needed to go back out to the street. The second shot here is of construction workers at a new building that I was asked to get a shot of. I did the basic building mug shot, but had this nagging feeling that I needed to try for something more. Luckily, my next assignment was at the building next door so I hung around and tried to make something more compositional and feature-ish. Up next is a portrait of a 96-year-old woman who originated the linguine recipe pictured in photo number four. The fifth photo is from a slow feature hunting day. These guys are cleaning one of the old buildings at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery while a stone fox on the adjacent building looks on. Got the Gateway Arch in there, too. Now if only it were ethical to photoshop out errant light poles. Next is a shot of a young woman who is fixing to open her own shoe shop downtown (it's the red building behind her). Silhouette shot of an F-15 Eagle in the Missouri National Guard hangar at Lambert Field. <<<(that was not actually a sentence) I think I made some sort of offhand remark about how I thought interns were supposed to shoot all of the high school sports assignments. So, last week I shot high school football and soccer.











And here is another Soundslides you can check out on STLtoday.com. Just click the photo to watch it.

News, Sports, Features

I've been keeping busy lately and my phlog updates have suffered as a result. The first two photos are from a four-alarm fire in Festus, Mo. a few days ago. The third news shot is of search and rescue crews investigating a building that collapsed last week. Luckily, no one was trapped inside. The fourth shot is from a regular section called "At Work With." This guy works for Critter Control. I also got to shoot my first NFL game this weekend. Here's a wide-angle shot of the 0-8 STL Rams on their way to the most recent loss. Photo number six is a feature I got during a rainy weekday on the north side of town. I thought it was worthwhile to shoot since they were cooking out in the rain, plus I thought I could do something cool with the mural on the side of the building across the street (it's a skyline of St. Louis - always easy to recognize by the Arch). I never did get what I wanted with the mural, but this seemed like a nice moment. United Auto Workers went on strike at the Chrysler plant outside of town so I spent the day out at the picket lines.










Lastly, I put together a soundslides from the 2007 Greater St. Louis Marching Band Festival at the Edward Jones Dome on Saturday. The marching band festival combined with the football game meant I spent most of the weekend walking around on fake grass. Click on the photo below to see the soundslides on the Post-Dispatch Web site.

Month Two of Post Posts

Starting into month number two up here in St. Louis and I've got a bunch of photos I never put up from last month and few fresh ones, too. Here are the highlights, I guess. First off is a fresh shot from this weekend's Scottish Games that I'm happy about. Then I've got two pictures I shot at a carnival celebrating Rankin Technical College's 100th anniversary. I liked the first one, but my editor wanted the second one (a different shot entirely actually ended up running). I've also got some food photos that I promised two posts back. The first one is the one that ran, I think. The second is my favorite because I think it looks like it is from 1984. Lastly, some shots from a baseball practice being conducted by one of the two teams that will be competing this weekend in an effort to break the record for World's Longest Baseball Game.

Constructing Photos

One month into this internship and I'm already preparing to send out another slew of portfolios for an internship in the Spring. Hassle. Something I shot at the beginning of last week ran today. There's a winery south of St Louis that is building houses on site for people to buy and live in. The idea is to create a little village at the winery/vineyard. None of the houses are finished yet, but there is a spa and restaurant done already. The houses are supposed to be reminiscent of the old French colonial architecture in nearby Ste. Genevieve. I basicly tried to get construction photos that showed the expansive view. Try to show a sense of place and not just a bunch of construction photos. Despite it being an overcast day it turned out pretty well, I think.







Of course, shooting at a construction site wouldn't be complete if I weren't given a hard time by the workers. This guy asked to borrow my camera so he could take some shots of me. I told him he was going to have to find his own camera if he wanted to take any pictures. He found one.