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sporting kansas city

A Major League Soccer field is about 75 yards x 115 yards, and within the confines, some great action takes place.  Frozen at high speeds it can look like a ballet performed by finely tuned young...

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. . . the D800, Flex TT5s, and some more sports shots

I continue to explore sports shots lit with speedlights.  Here are some equipment comments and some recent examples from a few recent shoots.  Except for the soccer shot, I used my FourSquare and SB900...

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sports variety

More exploration of sports and sports related shots, this time the grit of boxing, a bit of fitness, high school track, and a baseball theme.  All were taken with a Nikon D800, and except for the...

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sports to the max . . .

Sports, action, competition . . . and it feels like the trio have taken me from Tehachapi to Tonapah taking shots of athletes of all levels in action in all types of sporting endeavors.  Great fun....

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zazzle store

We are in the final plans to open a virtual “store” on zazzle.com to test the marketing of some of my images, stylized, on different products including tee shirts.  The images below will be in the...

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above and below

“Keep moving,” we are told so we do not get locked into one perspective for a shot.  Try different angles, try orienting the shot for landscape and then portrait and try different ways to frame the...

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crashed ice. TT5s, and speedlights

It was a weekend of Red Bull Crashed Ice competition in St. Paul, Minnesota.  If you don’t know Crashed Ice, you don’t know adrenaline.  Check it out here.  Red Bull can really stage an event.  Totally...

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intensity . . . emotion

Arthur Ashe observed:  ”You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”  In the faces of the...

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freestyling

I made it to Northwest Montana again this March and I set up a freestyle skiing shoot with a couple of the guys for a morning at Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana.  Packing for the shoot took a bit of...

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rites of spring

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring...

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the relays

The 2013 Kansas Relays are history now but if you have never seen the event, mark your calendar for 2014.  Maurice Greene, a past competitor at the Relays said:  ”In America, we have three major sports...

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