Posts Tagged ‘ CHN ’

As I mentioned in Up in Flames, I spent Saturday morning shooting firefighter training for the Chapel Hill News. The local volunteer fire department in Hillsborough, together with some other local departments, teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to practice with live fire exercises. I was assigned to shoot a Hillsborough town official who...
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I just returned home a few hours and a shower ago from shooting some live fire training exercises for some local volunteer fire departments. In particular, I shot the Orange Rural Fire Department from Hillsborough, NC.  I still smell like smoke form the fires! This is my first processed shot from the batch. I...
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Up in Hillsborough tomorrow, the fire department is doing some live fire training: Fire Department to Train Saturday with Practice Fires in Town. I just received the assignment to shoot the training. Fun with flames. If I am not in the hospital, I will be back tomorrow with some hot shots. Wish me luck!...
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For every assignment that I shoot for the newspaper, I submit a series of pictures so the editors can choose what fits their needs the best. I always submit to many. For my recent assignment shoot the basketball game, I submitted seven though they only asked for five. I have a difficult time deciding...
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I have another Chapel Hill News assignment this weekend. Tomorrow morning, I am heading to Chapel Hill High School to shoot the Regionals. The Tigers have some strong contenders going in. I have never been to a wrestling match, never mind shot one. Wish me luck! Any advice? If you find this post useful...
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This morning, the Chapel Hill News published another of my photos. This shot is part of the story, Wildcats make the grade, from the basketball game shoot that I have previously mentioned. Here Wildcat Hannah Elledge (#12) goes up for a layup in the first half of the game. I had the flash, my...
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I am off to shoot hoops tomorrow. The Chapel Hill News has asked me to photograph the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats’ basketball game at Jordan High. I shot an ECH men’s b-ball game for the News just before Thanksgiving. Let’s see if I can learn from that experience to get some better shots....
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As I mentioned last week, some of my photos from last week’s prep basketball game were to be published in the Chapel Hill News. These two made it onto the front page of the sports section, accompanying the article,  “Old Friends, New Rivals“. I took a few hundred shot that day, whittled that down...
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I shot my first basketball game last night. I learned that I have a lot to learn! First, though, I need an equipment upgrade. I need longer, faster lenses and some more strobes with Pocketwizards. I brought my trusty 285hv with my not-so-trusty Cactus triggers. This was less-than-optimal. The battery recycle time was not...
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I am heading off to Carrboro High to shoot their varsity men’s game againgst East Chapel Hill tonight. I am underequipped, so with me luck. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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We have been taking our puppies to the local dog park here in Chapel Hill and occasionally I lug the camera with me. On one of those days, I caught Vega, a Husky who gets along well with our two dogs, curling up in the water bucket to cool off. She does this regularly...
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The Chapel Hill News published a nice spread of my photos from a shoot this past Saturday for an article on the rise of the sport of disc golf in the area. I documented a round of disc golf for the shoot with UNC’s Carolina Disc Golf Club. More images from the shoot are...
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Published in the Chapel Hill Nees on Sunday, May 11, 2008 with the story, chapelhillnews.com | What am I bid?. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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Franklin St. Jazz, originally uploaded by oberazzi (Tim O’Brien). If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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I look his at the end of the same Durham Bulls’ 8-3 loss to the Columbus Clippers on 8/1/2007 wheere I took Changing Bulls. Like Changing Bulls, it was also published in the “Your Best Sports Shot” series in the local Chapel Hill News, coming out a few months later on November 14, 2007....
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