Summer Again Bring Multiple Magazine Covers
I did a blog similar to this last year right after landing my first Sports Illustrated cover, I had been planning to do another tearsheet blog for over a month, as I had several NFL and College football preview magazine covers, but I held off on doing the blog waiting to see if I would [...]
Photos of the Month – July
Well I can’t tell you how good it feels to be back to football, and for me it was really important for the lockout to come to an end since my livelihood depends on the return of the NFL. Usually the hot and muggy Louisiana summer time training camps is not something I look forward [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Saints Tune-Up For Regular Season
Last Friday I was back at the Superdome for the New Orleans Saints preseason home finale against the San Diego Chargers, I was happy to have the third preseason game in New Orleans this year because typically the starters play into the third quarter and it is the closest thing you will see to a [...]
Super Bowl Champion Saints Back In The Dome
The last NFL football game I shot was the biggest game in New Orleans Saints history, Super Bowl XLIV the last time I saw the Saints in the Superdome was the NFC Championship game in January. Yes it has been far too long since I’ve shot Saints football, and on Saturday night the Super Bowl [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Saints Get Super Bowl Championship Rings
I have recently been swamped with covering the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and when I caught a break I usually ended up with an assignment for another client, I am glad I had the evening off from the oil spill when the New Orleans Saints received their Championship Rings for their 31-17 win [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Super Bowl Champs take on softball
On Wednesday night I took on an interesting assignment that featured players from the New Orleans Saints NFL football team playing softball to help out a teammate in Heath Evans raise money for the Heath Evans Foundation to help victims of sexual abuse. The charity softball game organized by Saints fullback Heath Evans attracted about [...]
PGA Tour back in New Orleans with the Zurich Classic
Well, sorry folks there has been a bit of a lull in updating the blog, why you ask? Unfortunately since the end of the NBA regular season I have not had much work. I was originally scheduled this weekend to travel out of town for Talladega Alabama’s Nascar race weekend, that didn’t work out so [...]
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 [...]
