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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Little Wolves Open Football Season
Tonight, I stepped away from my usual sideline duties of NFL, college or even high school football, today I was working an assignment for a client and friend Gary B. Lee, he operates the Loranger High School website. Besides running a website that serves the athletic community of Loranger my client Bonidee Photography and Design [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bobcats clinch playoffs with 104-103 win over the Hornets
The Hornets after looking sluggish in the first half down 60-38 came out swinging in the second half out scoring the Bobcats 40-19 in the third quarter and held as large as a seven point fourth quarter lead before falling to Charlotte 104-103. The Bobcats with the win clinched their franchises first playoff birth the [...]
Falcons seventh inning comeback
Today I am going to share with you some photos from the final inning of a 4-3 seventh inning comeback by the St. Thomas Aquinas Falcons over Pope John Paul high school. St. Thomas began the seventh inning trailing Pope John Paul 3-2, and the Falcons comeback began with their first batter of the inning [...]
