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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jazz drop Hornets 114-103
The Hornets kept pace in the first half, but a rough third quarter prevented New Orleans from completing a fourth quarter comeback as the Utah Jazz kept pace in the Playoff race with a 114-103 win over the Hornets. New Orleans drops to 35-45 on the season, with one home game remaining on Sunday against [...]
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   [...]
Good Bye Scott Fujita
It is just a month after the New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV and one of the most familiar faces on the team is a Saint no more. Linebacker Scott Fujita the first player to join head coach Sean Payton with the Saints in 2006 became the first player to [...]
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 [...]
