Long bus ride with amusing football players.

I recently went down to Olympia to photograph a rally some Western alumni, football players and others were having in hopes to grow awareness of the cut of the program and to introduce a couple bills they were trying to get passed.

I forgot to change the settings on my camera from when I shot a basketball game. This is what happens when you leave your camera on the fluorescent light setting and take photos outside:



Even though we don't see faces in this photo, I liked how the signs and the legislative building kind of told the story. I played around with this a lot while I was there.


I saw this guy standing kind of by himself and thought it was interesting.

On this trip, I learned that football players are the blondes of the male species. It was very entertaining.

Football woes

So this year has been a bad year for sports in the Pacific Northwest: lost the Sonics, Mariners were one of the worst teams in baseball, Seahawks finished third in the conference and Mike Holmgren "retired," the Husky and Cougar football teams were terrible, the Tuba Man passed away...the list goes on.

On Jan. 8, the cut of Western Washington University's football team was added to that list. As a huge football fan and possibly pursuing a career as a sports photographer, I was pretty bummed when I heard the news - once I got over the shock. Yeah, I know college is supposed to be about learning, but what's a university without football?

I was asked to write a story on deadline for our student newspaper - The Western Front.
Here's a follow-up to that story as well.

I went digging through some photos of when I shot the Battle in Seattle (when our football team plays at Qwest Field in Seattle against our cross-state rival Central Washington University.)


This photo probably tells a lot about how the players were feeling after they heard about the loss of their program.

I'll be sad to not be able to shoot the Battle next year. It was an amazing experience - being on the field where the Seahawks play. Hopefully one day I'll make my way up so I can shoot there once again.

When will the sports scene in the Seattle area improve? Only true fans will stick around to find out. And as for me, I'll have to find somewhere else to shoot football...and in my dad's suggestions - get better at shooting volleyball.