Cry, Cry, Again....and Again

So many emotional photos, so little print space. Our local high school, Pine View, suffered their first loss of the season....too bad it was the state championship game. Wasn't exactly a close one either, with Timpview winning by a score of 50-7, extending their winning streak to 28 and claiming the state title in 3 of the last 4 years.

By the end of the first quarter I was already looking for my storytelling photos, which at that point were most likely going to be non-celebratory photos, in other words, I was looking for the criers. I ended up finding plenty of them at the end of the game. Now was the hard part, which ones to send to print. So, which ones would you choose?












It wasn't all tears, I did still manage to get a few good action shots also:

Time to vote!

Editors note: It is my birthday today, and normally it would be a day to celebrate. But for some reason the college students that I teach believe me to be in my mid-30s, even though I am actually in my mid-20s. So now I am left wondering, "Am I really aging that badly?" Long story short, I may have to fail them all on their mid-term exams.

It was time to vote again today, and it was my job once again to illustrate the act of voting. It is always somewhat difficult to make an interesting photograph from people standing at the polls. One angle I decided to take was that of an interesting reflection I noticed near the polls. Here's what I came away with:


That worked out okay, although my paper may not find it suitable to run as a centerpiece photo. So I always make sure I gather plenty of different angles at an event in order to tell the entire story. This photo may make for a more accurate centerpiece:

I managed to get some decent interaction from the subjects in the photo while still keeping in mind my composition at an interesting angle.

I'm getting too old for this....