UNC freshmen Charlie McComas is overcome with emotion after defeating Johns Hopkins lacrosse in an overtime win.
Better late than never I guess. While cleaning out my hard drive, I realized that I neglected to post photos from North Carolina lacrosse during their overtime win against Johns Hopkins, and their NCAA First Round win over UMBC. Here are the links:
CJ Costabile
Duke upset then-undefeated and #1 UVA Saturday in Durham. Upsets are always fun to photograph because of the emotion that comes out of the games. I went in with the Duke team postgame into the locker room and I could almost get a high out of their energy. It’s a rush that is unmatched.
Here are my Virginia lacrosse vs. Duke photos.
Wow. (btw, check out some of my Billy Bitter photos)
Providence Day could not contain the Chapel Hill High School Tigers lacrosse team.
I’m embarrassed to say that while I’ve photographed a lot of lacrosse, I have never photographed a high school game. I’ve only been doing the D1 college scene. But now that I’m shooting for US Lacrosse now, they are encouraging me to hit the high school scene. This is consistent with US Lacrosse’s philosophy of covering lacrosse from the pros to the grassroots for their publication Lacrosse Magazine.
I took a look at the schedule for Chapel Hill High School and saw they were playing at 10 am at Duke, just before the Duke vs. Georgetown game. I was pretty stoked because usually all varsity high school games are at night under terrible lighting. So to see a day game was a treat. Second. it could have worked out any better having the game just before the Georgetown game and just 20 yards away.
Any way, here are the photos from the game that I took.
edit: I have to take back my first sentence. I did back in 2002 while living in Washington, DC take pictures at Gonzaga high school to test out a new lens I bought.
Colin Sherwood
I put up some photos from UNC’s 20-7 win over Denver. Fairly good game, although my photos aren’t as good as the game was. I guess photographers are entitled to bad games too?
Eventually I will get the Navy and Colgate photos up. As well as the Duke vs. Colgate photos up.
Until then, here are the Denver vs. North Carolina lacrosse photos.
Freshmen LSM Mark Staines
For the Inside Lacrosse article, I did some portraits of the players. I was experimenting with some new ground here but was really happy with how they came out. Here’s a link to some portraits of the North Carolina lacrosse team.
(btw, the photo on the left was taken outside in full daylight. The effect was achived by overpowering ambient light with flash.)
Ben Hunt on the March 2009 cover of Inside Lacrosse
Inside Lacrosse commissioned me to do the photography for their cover article on Coach Joe Breschi and the revamped North Carolina Tar Heels. The shoot was a ton of fun. I would recount for you what the shoot was like, but rather than reinventing the wheel, I’m just going to link to an article I wrote on Inside Lacrosse.
This is actually my first cover for Inside Lacrosse. Pretty sad that it took this long.
Tyler Hansbrough
So the above picture took me by surprise last night. Normally I would have deleted it because while it’s a nice slam dunk, I can’t see Tyler’s eyes. My mentor always told me that in every photo I should be able to see “the white’s of their eyes”. Otherwise, its a deleter.
But before I hit the delete button I did a double-take on this picture. A split second before the photo was taken, the player on the left had a hold of the waistband of Hansbrough’s shorts. He released them but no doubt I took the photo right between the time when he let go and before the shorts had time to snap back. The odds are 1 in a million.
And no, it is NOT Photoshopped.
Timer
I thought I would do an experiment today and photograph an athletic event, but not actually photograph any of the action. Instead, focusing on the athletes and coaches in those moments between the action. I did it as a challenge to myself to see how I could. Results weren’t bad, but I’m not expecting a Pulitzer either. Still I had had fun; it was a great way to see swimming in a new light. I have to admit, getting up close to swimmers with a camera, while they are wearing a Speedo, is a little nerve racking! Takes a while to get comfortable photographing someone when they aren’t fully clothed. But I guess swimmers are used to it and don’t mind.
Enjoy some photos below of UNC’s 169-123 thrashing of Duke.
We knew she was sick, but it is still hard to believe. She was strong. Whenever the cancer struck her, she struck back harder. Always a survivor. When it tried to break her spirt, she came out stronger. The photo below I took in March 2007 when NCSU lost in the NCAA tournament. We all thought it would be her last game as a coach. A year later, she proved us and the cancer who was in charge as she was still out on the court directing her team to victories even a year later. But in the end, NC State head basketball coach Kay Yow lost her battle to breast cancer. It took decades to finally take the strong-willed woman home; but last night it finally won.
As a team photographer, I have photographed many coaches, in many sports and at many schools. Coach Yow I always liked. While doing a photo shoot for NCSU’s athletic department for the W BBall media guide, I had the opportunity to work with her. She was a delight. Patient, friendly and kind spirited. I left that photo shoot thinking what a wonderful person she was. I have not always left with that feeling with other coaches.
Coach, we will miss you. But no one is going to ever forget you. Say hello to Coach V for us.
NCSU head coach Kay Yow in March 2007. (Photo: Peyton Williams/NCSU Athletics)
