Saints Kickoff Preseason Against 49ers
Preseason officially kicked off last night, and I must say I never looked forward to a preseason game so much, I can’t say the same for my colleagues but I enjoyed every minute of having football back. Of course the second half was kind of brutal to make pictures with most guys being third and [...]
A Look Into Saints Training Camp
The NFL Lockout has ended and football has returned, and now that I’ve concluded my coverage of New Orleans Saints Training Camp I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite images from through out camp. Training Camp is not something that need to be covered every day, I probably attended a few too [...]
NBA Playoffs Return to NOLA
It was an exciting NBA season, earlier this month I took a look back at the 2010-2011 NBA regular season for the New Orleans Hornets, now unfortunately following an elimination at the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers its time to look back at the Hornets playoff run. I guess it is hard to be [...]
Experiencing NASCAR at Talladega
Last weekend I finally got my first chance to experience shooting a NASCAR event, I admit, I’m not a big follower of the sport and have only casually watched a few races but, I’m not one to turn down a great opportunity, and I’ve seen colleagues namely Mark Rebilas come up big by capturing a [...]
The New Orleans Hornets Season In Photos
Well the regular season for the NBA is coming to a close and as the New Orleans Hornets gear up for a return to the playoffs I wanted to take a look back over the season and some of my favorite shots over the past seven months of covering New Orleans Hornets basketball. The season [...]
Vote for the Honeybees – NBA Dance Challenge 2011
It is that time of year again, The New Orleans Hornets dance team the Honeybees are competing in the NBA Dance Challenge but now are facing a worthy adversary this week in the Los Angeles Laker Girls, it’s time for the fans voice to be heard, and I’d like to help out my lovely ladies [...]
Revisting Super Bowl XLIV
Today I find myself reminiscing on my experiences at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Fl it will be one year ago tomorrow that I had my first opportunity to shoot a Super Bowl. Being a photographer at the Super Bowl was one of my goals since I entered into the profession, but making it more [...]
Pictures of the Month – January 2011
I’ve been a little behind on updating my blog, and thought I’d add a new feature of Pictures of the Month throughout the year to go along with my regular blog feature posts. In January I started out with the final game of the season with the New Orleans Saints, along with a look at [...]
2010 The Year In Pictures
It has been a pretty wild year, and I have experienced many things I will never forget, I feel I have grown more in the year of 2010 as a photographer than ever before and I can only hope 2011 is half as good to me as 2010 has been. My photos contain mostly sports [...]
Hornets Sting Mavericks
The New Orleans Hornets were back at home against the Dallas Mavericks after suffering their first loss of the season at the hands of the Mavericks on Monday night in Dallas. Entering the game with the NBA’s best record at 8-1, it has been an exciting time covering a winning Hornets team and Wednesday night [...]
Hornets The Surprise Team Of NBA
When I last blogged about the New Orleans Hornets it was following Media Day, and about all I knew was the team had an infusion of new talent, what I didn’t expect was the Hornets to be the NBA’s hottest team to start the season. The Hornets jumped out a franchise best 8-0 start before [...]
Court Is In Session – Hornets Return
Well it’s about time to tip off for the 2010-2011 New Orleans Hornets, NBA season, the Hornets have infused some new blood into the squad and if they can remain healthy they should once again challenge for a playoff spot in the Western Conference. Recently the Hornets held their annual “Media Day” at the New [...]
The NFL Is Pretty In Pink
The month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the NFL shows their support through their Crucial Catch Campaign As part of the campaign, NFL players and coaches throughout the league will wear pink issued equipment even the fields are touched up with pink ribbon logos. Among one of the more interesting scenes from [...]
Football, Football & More Football
I have been pretty busy the past two weekends, sorry I’ve fell behind in blogging so today I figured I would catch up by sharing my favorite shots from the past two weekends, as a prepare for a weekend that will include four games in three days over two states. So let’s not waste any [...]
Back To Death Valley
Another football season is under way, and on Saturday’s during football season you’ll find me regularly on the sideline for LSU football. Over 90,000 rowdy fans pack into to “Death Valley” otherwise known as Tiger Stadium, the atmosphere of college football is unlike anything else. Last Saturday, I was assigned to shoot the Mississippi State [...]
Super Bowl Champion Saints Kickoff 2010 Season
Football is Back, and the New Orleans Saints the defending Super Bowl Champions (I just can’t say that enough) would host the NFL Kickoff game in a rematch of the NFC Championship game from last year against the Minnesota Vikings. The silver fox otherwise known as the Moses of the NFL Brett Favre the leagues [...]
Friday Night Under The Lights
Tonight it was back to work for my client Bonidee Photography & Design and this time I was off to cover “The Hammond Cup” a rival match between the Hammond Tornadoes and the St. Thomas Aquinas Falcons at Strawberry Stadium in Hammond. St. Thomas Aquinas normally plays their home games at Strawberry Stadium but for [...]
Five Years Later
Five years ago I was not on the sidelines photographing the New Orleans Saints, courtside at a New Orleans Hornets game or on the sideline of Tiger Stadium for LSU football, I was a fan of all the above but was not covering college or professional sports anymore. Five years and a day ago I [...]
Hornets Welcome Trevor Ariza
Last week the New Orleans Hornets traded away their rookie phenom Darren Collison as part of a four team trade in which the Hornets acquired Houston Rockets forward Trevor Ariza. The trade came as somewhat of a surprise and although I hated to see a talented player like Collison depart from the team, in the [...]
Summer Brings Multiple Magazine Covers
If you ask any sports photographer where they would like to see there images appear in a publication, you will probably get a lot of replies as “Sports Illustrated,” SI is considered to be the pinnacle of success for photographers and having your images selected for publication in SI is quite an honor. One of [...]
On Board The Develoment Driller II Relief Well Rig
On Saturday August 7th 2010 I was assigned to probably my coolest assignment since I began coverage of the oil spill for my client Bloomberg. It took over a month of trying but I finally was able to schedule a seat on a helicopter through the Joint Information Center in New Orleans to go out [...]
The Saints Sideline Exploding – My most requested shot
On the 24th of January while covering the NFC Championship game between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings I was in the end zone when Saints place kicker Garrett Hartley lined up for the kick, the biggest kick of his short career. I did not have an angle on the field goal itself, [...]
Super Bowl Champion Saints, March into Training Camp
Well it’s been a crazy few months covering oil and immediately after getting off a helicopter from an embed with the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive I headed straight over to the opening day of training camp for the defending Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints. My flight back from the Decisive landed after the conclusion [...]
The Source From On Board – USCG Cutter Decisive
I arrived at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport around 12:15pm on July 30th for my assignment with Bloomberg News, for the next 24 hours I would be embedded with with the crew on board the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive out near the source of the BP Deep Water Horizon well site. My flight on a [...]
