Soccer Portrait

With the Women's World Cup going on in Germany right now I thought I'd post one of my images dealing with soccer.  I also wanted to show the pieces I used to get to the final image.  The portrait was shot in my family room with a light kit and a brown sheet as my backdrop.  A couple weeks later I was getting into my car after an assignment and saw some games going on, so I shot a couple of the lights hoping they might work.  I did the image in both color and black and white.  I like both but prefer the black and white image.  Go USA!!!

Jimmer -- Teach Me How To Jimmer

I work for BYU's newspaper The Daily Universe.  I had the opportunity to cover a half dozen basketball games this season.  It was an amazing experience.  Anyway, with the NBA draft last week I thought it would be fun to post some images of him from this past year.  Congratulations, Jimmer Fredette.

BYU Basketball 2011

I started getting photographs together of Jimmer and I immediately knew that I wanted to include images of the rest of the team.  So here they are:

As a convert to BYU basketball this year I thoroughly enjoyed covering the games (they've always been my number three team: 1. UNLV, 2. Whoever is playing Duke, and 3. BYU, but this year I jumped on the bandwagon and was with them all the way).  I must thank the two missionaries, Jimmer and Jackson, on giving me a team to root for as my Running Rebels talked too much smack but couldn't back anything up.  Congratulations to the team on a great season.  It was amazing working in the Marriott Center this year, I thank the fans for coming to each game with so much enthusiasm and excitement.

And for those wondering, I have always been a BYU football fan.  That has never changed, and it never will.