Here are a few more photo from Sunday’s Engagement Session with Phil and Britt. I know you cannot see anything but their feet in the first one, but I just wonder. . . . what were they doing while they were hiding behind that train car?
Now they are going to look all innocent, but WE know what you were just doing!
Wow, how did my watermark end up in the puddle . . . . hmm, now that is literally a watermark now isn’t it!
We are right in the middle of the High School basketball season, but before you know it “Senior Night”, the night of the last regular season home game will be upon us. For senior night one of the traditions of many schools is that the seniors will create and display a senior poster for people to view at that last game. I thought it might be fun to come up with a few of my own. I randomly picked a few seniors, here is what I came up with.
This first one features Priest River Senior Guard Jaden Barrett.
For this one I could not find a vector graphic that even closely resembled the Spartan mascot of Priest River so I decided I needed to spend the time to make my own replica of the one that is displayed in the PRLHS gym.
Next is Sandpoint Senior Wing Cole Fuhrman
No, I did not create that bulldog graphic, I bit the bullet and forked out the money to buy one with an unlimited reproduction license.
Lastly check out the poster of Sandpoint Senior Guard Erik Nikssarian . . . .
Eric, the Basketball Roster spells your name Erik but on facebook you have it Eric, I concluded that you probably spelled your own name right when you created your facebook account, but if I I concluded wrong let me know and I will fix it!
When I took this shot I remember seeing this lane open up and Eric bursting through it, I used an effect to try to give him the same sense of motion that I saw through the lens of my camera. Whether or not I was successful, you be the judge.
Over the Christmas and New Years break break my family and I have been near the coast in Northern California visiting family. On the last day of our visit we had a bright ad sunny day to go and visit the beach together. Of course I brought my camera! After a short time at the beach I decided to give myself an assignment, that assignment was to use the harsh direct sun light to create some dramatic lighting for some black and white photos. Here are a few of my favorites from the day.
Here is the favorite of grandma Juju and great grandma Pat. I was seeing spots for a while and had difficulty focusing (my eyes) after shooting a few into the sun, but it created a fun effect and some interesting lens flare.
Originally I was planning on focusing my black and white venture on landscapes, as you can see my focus shifted quickly to my kids! But, none the less, here is one landscape photo to round out the post.
Basketball season is well under way and this week I had the pleasure to photograph the first games of the season for the three Sandpoint Bulldog Boys Basketball teams as well as the Boys and Girls teams for the Kootenai Thunder, a local Christian sports organization. I wanted to share a post tonight of a few of my favorite photos from those games, but . . . . . they are not of basketball players, they are of a few of the fans, in particular the youngest of the fans.
Here are a couple from the Thunder Games
I have heard of referees receiving bribes, but I think these two bribes were much more valuable than any cash payment!
Not only does he bribe the ref, but he also like to entertain the photographer. I love it when kids like to ham it up for the camera!
Not to be outdone by his friends near by, this guy begged me to take his photo as he literally “hung out”!
Now a few photos of another entertainer, this little guys is well known for his entertaining half time shows at the Sandpoint volleyball and baseball games.
I know as of late I am getting a reputation as a sports photographer, which of course is a part of what I do, but really I just love to photograph people. I love to capture the action of sports and the interaction between families; The emotion of victory and the emotion of relationships; The milestones of championships and the milestones of life in general; The once in a life time moments that happen on the field or in the corner chapel. We are surrounded by the beauty of God’s creation here in North Idaho, but I still find the most fascinating part of His creation is that which was created in His own image, people!
The parents of Kanyen Bauer (the SHS Boys Varsity Soccer starting Goal Keeper and IEL Keeper of The Year) approached me about getting a large print of one of Kanyen’s saves. I figured I could come up with something even better than a large print, so I worked up a montage of the play to be printed as a 16×24 on metallic paper and mounted as a standout display. The finished product was delivered to the Bauer family after being on display at the Boys Soccer banquet where it received rave reviews from all who saw it! With Christmas shopping gearing up I thought it would be a good idea for me to start dropping some hints about possible gift items, perhaps a custom photo montage might just fit the bill. Take a look at this one, your screen is not quite the same as that metallic paper, but it will have to do. Click the photo for a larger view.
Here is a quick preview to the gallery of photos from the first round of 2010 State 4A action featuring Sandpoint vs. Kuna. Kuna jumped out to a very quick 2 goal lead, but the Bulldogs kept their composure and chipped away, starting with this goal on a penalty kick by Nichole Pagano:
The bulldogs tied it up with this goal by Ellie Engel, here is a four shot sequence of the equalizer.
Then in overtime the victory came with this goal by Meghan Pagano. Not a very good shot by the photographer, but a great shot to win the game by Meghan!
Then of course the celebration!
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Great game Bulldogs, way to stick with it after being down by 2, keep up the good work!
The last couple of days have been filled with many hours of editing and uploading sports photos, I am happy to now report that I am caught up on the sports photos and am posting the links to the galleries here in my blog. On a technical note, I will set up the links so that they will open in a new window, that way if you want to view more than one gallery you will not have to navigate back to this page.
Boys Soccer: Sandpoint vs. Moscow
Volleyball: (JV) Sandpoint vs. Lakeland
Volleyball: Sandpoint vs. Lakeland
Football: Sandpoint vs. Lakeland
Football: (JV) Sandpoint vs. Lakeland
Sandpoint Junior Tackle Football: 5th and 6th Grade
Sandpoint Junior Tackle: 8th Grade
Sandpoint Junior Tackle: 7th Grade
I have been having a great time attending and photographing the Sandpoint Bulldog Soccer teams this fall. Here are a few photos from the recent matches (JV and Varsity) against Lake City High School. There are many more photos available for viewing and for ordering at: http://jasonduchowphotography.zenfolio.com/
Let’s Start with the Boys and Girls JV matches
Now on to the Varsity action, unfortunately it did not take long for it to get too dark to get decent photos of the boys, but I was able to get a few before it was too late, including this one of Tanner Williams first of three goals in the game.
Here is another batch of photos from the World Wide Photo Walk. The last post I shared with you my favorite people photos from the walk, this time I am going to share with you the remainder of my favorites from the day. I am really looking forward to next year’s photo walk, maybe if there is enough people interested we can get one up and running in Sandpoint! I will start with what was my favorite non-people photo. This one was taken in a toy store on sherman avenue and I really like how it turned out.
That is HD for Harley Davidson, not High Definition.
Some artwork on a boat docked on the boardwalk. Skull are not really my thing, but I loved the vibrant colors.
Today was so much fun! My friend Shea and I joined attended the World Wide Photo Walk in Coeur d’Alene today and we had a great time! The photo walk was held in over 1,100 cities around the world and had over 33,000 people registered to participate. The idea is to get together with a group of people and walk around, take photos for a couple of hours and then hang out for a while and talk photography. Today I took photos of many different things, but my favorite thing to photograph was people. I enjoyed meeting a number of folks in my walk and many of them agreed to let me take their photos, if you are one of those folks thanks again I appreciate it and had a wonderful time capturing a little bit of your world today! For tonight I am going to post my favorite people photos from the day.
I know that Dog’s are not people, but here is bonus photo go add to the mix.
