April – Pictures of the Month
It’s once again time for my photos of the month feature and enjoy this month’s feature, because I don’t know how many events I will be covering in the near future with the end of basketball season and the un-certain future of the NFL with the current lockout situation. Anyways the month of April was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pictures of the Month – March
In the month of March I pretty much went without a day off, on assignment for MLB Spring Training in Florida for most of the month, I was pulled away from baseball several times, twice to shoot the Miami Heat and another time for a few days to shoot for the NCAA Tournament Tampa Regional. [...]
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 [...]
Pictures of the Month – February 2011
It’s been an incredibly busy month for me, I wasn’t expected to be doing much at all in February as it is a slow time for me with only a little NBA and NCAA Basketball to cover, but in early February I got the unbelievable assignment of traveling to Florida to cover Spring Training MLB [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Hornets Fantastic Finale
The end to a long NBA season for New Orleans Hornets came to a close last night at the New Orleans Arena as the Hornets snapped an five game losing streak with a 114-86 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. New Orleans for the first time in a long time dominated a game from start to [...]
Wizards cast a spell on the Hornets
Just two days after beating the best team in the Western Conference of the NBA in the Los Angeles Lakers the Hornets dropped a game to one of the worst team’s in the NBA the Washington Wizards who had lost sixteen consecutive games coming into the night. The Hornets kept the game close throughout and [...]
Hornets sting the Lakers
The Hornets once again pulled off the unexpected, already eliminated from the playoffs the Hornets came out strong and held off a late rally by the Lakers to get a 108-100 win over the Western Conference’s top team on Monday night. It was another one of my most anticipated events of the sports year, it [...]
Vote for the Honeybees in the NBA Dance Bracket
In my coverage of the New Orleans Hornets, basketball players aren’t the only thing to shoot, the Hornets if you don’t know already have an incredible team of NBA dancers called The Honeybees. Every March, just around the time of the March Madness of the college basketball season the NBA puts out their own bracket [...]
King James visits New Orleans
Tonight was one of the most awaited sporting events of the year, as the Cleveland Cavaliers and NBA superstar LeBron James made his one and only appearance in the Crescent City as his Cavs came to town to face the New Orleans Hornets. I was quite excited about shooting this game and I wanted to [...]
Published by L.A. Times
Did my daily quick search for clips today and discovered that I had an image on the front page of the Los Angeles Times Sports page, I think that is a first for me so I’m kinda excited to have an image on the front page of one of the nations largest newspapers. Check out [...]
Hornets sting Mavericks 115-99
If you can expect anything from the New Orleans Hornets, it is to expect the unexpected. The Hornets holding onto their playoff hopes by a thread returned home for the first game in a five game home stand and they opened up with the Dallas Mavericks one of the NBA’s hottest teams. The outlook for [...]
LA Times features Collison image
I recently came across a great website resource for tracking some of my recent published images, the website http://www.pressdisplay.com allows users to search a variety of the United States and world’s most recognized newspapers through a daily electronic edition. In searching my own name I found a photo I took last week during a Hornets [...]
Hornets slip to Nuggets
The New Orleans Hornets playing with only eight active players tonight, played a competitive game against the playoff bound Denver Nuggets, but didn’t have enough firepower to keep pace as the Hornets fell to the Nuggets 102-95. Check out a slideshow of tonight’s images below. 03-12-2010 Nuggets at Hornets – Images by Derick Hingle   [...]
Hornets hold off Warriors
The Hornets started fast and to borrow a phrase from the New Orleans Saints, last night they “finished strong” as rookie Marcus Thornton carried the New Orleans Hornets with 28 points to a track meet 135-131 victory over the Golden State Warriors. Below is a look at the action from last night’s victory at the [...]
Hornets slip to Grizzlies
The slide away from a playoff spot continued on Wednesday when the Hornets blew a fourth quarter lead and fell to five games out of the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot with just over a month remaining in the regular season. Below check out my favorite image from the night followed by my [...]
