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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another Look at the Oil Spill Coverage
Once again I have fallen a bit behind in updating my blog, but it is only because I’ve been incredibly busy, and just so you no coverage limits mentioned in my last entry have been removed so it was back to work. Below check out some select images of what I’ve been up to in [...]
Oil Spill Coverage Made Difficult with New Policy
Oil breaches past hard boom that surrounds Cat Island off the coast of Louisiana on Monday, June 14, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to impact areas across the coast of gulf states. (AP Photo/Derick E. Hingle) Are you used to seeing photos like the one above I shot on assignment with the [...]
Oil Spill by land, sea, air and a visit with Kevin Costner
Ok, I know the title of my blog entry today may have you confused, but for this blog entry I am combining recent spill coverage all into one entry. Normally I post a blog following each assignment, unfortunately I have not had the time and have been forced to neglect my regular updates. So since [...]
Oil Blankets Grand Isle Beach, Cleanup Begins Again
Wow it’s been a busy week, and I barely have time to sleep let alone blog, I’ve been adding links from publications of one of my recent assignment through Bloomberg News, as I drove out to Grand Isle for a second time, and arrived to see heavy oil had impacted the closed beaches. I knew [...]
From Above the Spill
On Tuesday I covered by sea, on Wednesday I took to the air with the U.S. Coast Guard in a HC-144A Coast Guard airplane with along with a large group of journalist and photographers to get a birds eye view of the storm. Early in the day things did not look good, severe storms were [...]
Cleaning up the marsh in Cocodrie, Louisiana
I was back on assignment for the oil spill on Tuesday, this time it was a 2 1/2 hour drive to a small fishing town of Cocodrie, Louisiana where I would get to take my first ever air boat ride, this oil spill seems to certainly be providing me a lot of first as a [...]
New Orleans Saints OTA’s Underway
The New Orleans Saints 2010 season is officially underway as the team has begun a series of OTA’s or Organized Team Activities at the team’s practice facility in Metairie, Louisiana. Today was the first day the media was allowed to attend the practice session and I was hoping despite the heat that the team would [...]
Oil Spill hits the beach
After about twenty days away from coverage of the oil spill I was back on assignment with Bloomberg News of Tuesday, well at least for a day. In my previous coverage I really hadn’t personally seen the oil impact an area, as the oil had stayed off shore, this time I found oil and it [...]
Louisiana Lafayette knocks off Texas A&M in softball regional
On Sunday my assignment for Texas A&M softball continued as they reached championship Sunday against Louisiana Lafayette, but in order to win the regional tournament the Aggies would have to beat the Ragin’ Cajuns twice. In the end Louisiana Lafayette needed just one game on Sunday and eliminated Texas A&M with a 6-1 win over [...]
Texas A&M remains alive, eliminates LSU in Regional
This weekend I have the fortune to work for the University of Texas A&M who needed a photographer to cover the weekend NCAA Regional softball tournament hosted by LSU at Tiger Park. Today was my first time working directly for a university, but I have worked for some high schools, and basically the coverage would [...]
Championship Sunday – 5A Baseball
It was a crazy Sunday, I was scheduled to shoot the 5A Baseball state championship game at Turchin Stadium in New Orleans at 10am. I awoke in the morning to a torrential down pour at my home in Hammond, Louisiana so I switched on the TV to check the news, and saw a live interview [...]
