Trevor Mack

Every August, I pack my lighting gear and head to NC State to set up for a two-day head shot day.  All the winter and spring athletes come in anytime between 9am and 4pm to have their photo take.  Staff are also welcome to come.

Typically I do both days, but travel with football to South Carolina precluded me from doing the Wednesday session.  So my friend and fellow photographer Karl Deblaker filled in on Wednesday.  On the first day, I was getting a couple outtakes and Pat Norris in the media relations office suggested that we keep a collection of all the outtakes on file, and post them to the new blog on gopack.com.  So I wanted to link you to the blog so you can check out the outtakes.

Hopefully this is something we can do on an annual basis.  We thought the fans would get a kick out of the photos.

Andrew Brackman treated by Andy before playing Garner-Webb.

A little bit of blast from the past.  As many of you know, I spent the Spring of 2007 with NC State pitcher Andrew Brackman, who would go on to be drafted in the first round by the NY Yankees.

This is how I remember Andrew best, with his Sidekick device.

Today I discovered a slew of photos that were sitting on my web

server that I forgot to publicly release of Andrew.  Many of these of these are photos that not even Andrew or his parents have seen.  (well, except for the fact that I emailed them to say they are there.)

Towards the end the work I did with Brack, combined with all the other work I did, I got overwhelmed and honestly forgot that I had all these unreleased photos of him.  I hope that all the Brackman fans out there enjoy the new archives of Drew.

For those wondering, Drew is in Tampa right now doing conditioning.  I talked to him a week or so ago over IM and he’s doing well.  Saw a Poison concert last month.

Click here is to see the photos.

Cullen Jones, a graduate of North Carolina State University, along with some guy Michael Phelps, upset France to take Olympic Gold in the 4×100 meter relay on Monday, Aug. 11.  I’ve photographed Jones a few times for NC State and I had no idea that he would turn out into such a phenomenal swimmer as he has now.   But still, a huge congratulations to him for winning an Olympic gold medal.