Pinnacles National Monument
A couple of weeks ago, I revisited Pinnacles National Monument – a site that I briefly stopped at in June of 2008. This time, I took the entire day and hiked starting at the Old Pinnacles trail head to the entrance of the Balconies Caves, then back out and around via the Balconies Cliffs, past the Chaparral Ranger Station up to the High Peaks via the Juniper Canyon Trail to the Tunnel Trail. [...] Continue Reading…
Charleston, South Carolina
I recently traveled back to the east coast to visit my family and spent some time in Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA. I had been to Charleston just over two years prior, and was pleased to have two very nice days to revisit many of the areas I had previously photographed under better light. [...] Continue Reading…
NHL Hockey: St. Louis Blues at San Jose Sharks
I’m starting to have a lot of fun with this whole hockey thing. Last week, I shot the St. Louis Blues vs. San Jose Sharks at HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA. I shot at the Sharks Head ice-level photographer hole locations for the first and third periods and up top for the second. [...] Continue Reading…
NFL: Washington Redskins at Oakland Raiders
December 13, 2009; Oakland, CA, USA; Oakland Raiders running back Justin Fargas (25) leaps over Washington Redskins defensive tackle Cornelius Griffin (96) for a touchdown during the second quarter at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Washington defeated Oakland 34-13. [...] Continue Reading…
NCAA Football – Notre Dame at Stanford
Stanford’s Toby Gerhart is the real deal. So is Notre Dame’s Golden Tate. Last night Gerhart and his Cardinal defeated the Fighting Irish 45-38 at Stanford Stadium in what was a photographer’s (and fan’s) treat. [...] Continue Reading…
Coach Al Groh
Today, my alma mater, the University of Virginia, dismissed Al Groh as the football coach after a 3-9 season. As a sports photographer, I’ve covered Coach Groh over the last five years — compiling a wide range of images. [...] Continue Reading…
A good football game in the WAC
I was assigned to shoot the Idaho Vandals at the San Jose State Spartans on October 10th. US Presswire wanted me to shoot Nathan Enderle, Idaho’s quarterback (pictured above) who was the WAC offensive player of the year in 2008. [...] Continue Reading…
San Jose Sharks NHL Home Opener vs the Columbus Blue Jackets
The San Jose Sharks hosted the Columbus Blue Jackets at HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on October 8th. This was my first NHL game shooting, and the first since I watched the NY Islanders play the Pittsburgh Penguins at Nassau Coliseum over a decade ago. [...] Continue Reading…
Washington at Stanford – NCAA Football
In my short time shooting PAC10 and WAC football, I’ve noticed a couple of key differences from the ACC, Big East, etc. The first, the weather — it’s almost always 70 degrees and awesome outside in Palo Alto. Second, there’s a ton of offense — or put another way, there often is lot less defense (i.e. no 7-5 UVa v UNC games). [...] Continue Reading…
Texas Rangers at Oakland Athletics – Major League Baseball
The above image is of Oakland Athletics infielder Daric Barton (10) sliding into home plate during the second inning against against the Texas Rangers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on September 22, 2009. [...] Continue Reading…
San Jose State at Stanford – NCAA Football
The nice thing about early season evening / twilight games is that there are often a few select spots in the stadium where late afternoon sunlight sneaks through the stands and on to the field. [...] Continue Reading…
Boise State at Fresno State – NCAA Football
The #10 ranked Boise State Broncos came to Fresno State for a Friday night NCAA football game under the lights. This was my first game since moving west, and I drove the three hours from the Bay Area for this game. Really glad I wore shorts because it was over 100 degrees at kick off (6pm). [...] Continue Reading…
A day at the races – Infineon Raceway – Sonoma, CA
A co-worker of mine generously gave me her ticket to today’s Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway. This was my first Indy Car race and I had an absolute blast! [...] Continue Reading…
Alcatraz Island
Saturday I went to Alcatraz Island (and later Angel Island) with Shannon and hundreds of other tourists on board the ferry from Pier 33 in San Francisco. It was an early morning but an unusually clear and moderately warm day in the Bay Area. [...] Continue Reading…
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Shannon took me to Monterey over the weekend and we visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Cannery Row, etc was also fun… nice to be shooting again after a hiatus from moving to California. [...] Continue Reading…
Sherlock arrives on the West Coast
So, after two trips across country: one by air, one by land; Sherlock and I finally made it out to California. I took him to Poplar Beach / Bluff Top Coastal Park, near Half Moon Bay, yesterday for a couple of hours. Sherlock met his first California Sea Lion… [...] Continue Reading…
2009 Foxfield Spring Races
The weather treated the thousands of party-goers in the infield pretty well — it was 90+ degrees and sunny. The racing was fun and also sad when a horse had to be put down for breaking his leg. Toughkenamon jockeyed by Carl Rafter [...] Continue Reading…
A great night in Charlottesville – Dave Matthews Band
Tonight was a night that I was looking forward to for a long time. Putting objective photojournalism aside, I have always wanted to photograph Dave Matthews and his band. I’ve been a fan since the early 1990’s [...] Continue Reading…
A Not-so Friendly Spring NCAA Soccer Game
This past weekend, NC State scrimmaged Virginia in a spring “friendly”. In the first half, there was a scuffle where Chrystel Bakong (8) from NCSU got into a mix up with UVA’s Jonathan Villaneuva (10). [...] Continue Reading…
Tony Bennett introduced as UVA’s new basketball coach
Today was UVA’s unveiling of it’s new men’s basketball coach, Tony Bennett. [...] Continue Reading…
