Soccer

Well, it's time for spring sports since basketball is over :( Oh well, I shot this soccer pic with a 70-200 and either 2x or 1.4. I can't remember which one but it turned out pretty good.
Too bad I'm not in Atlanta watching the Hogs like the Lonoke boys coach and In the Loupe boy Marc F. Henning.
go Hogs.

State Champs #1

I shot and covered the Ark. Class 4A state basketball championship at Summit Arena in Hot Springs on Thursday. The Lonoke Jackrabbits beat Hamburg 47-42 to win their fifth state title but first since 2000.
I got some decent shots. All the action shots were shot with available light while a couple of the celebration shots, I used a flash.

Going to the 'Ship!

The Carlisle Lady Bison, the defending Class 2A State Champions, beat Danville on Saturday night to advance to this year's title game, where they will play fellow conference member Augusta at Summitt Arena in Hot Springs.

Here are a couple of photos from the game! Let me know what you think.

Mark

7A State Tourney

I shot the Class 7A state tourney in Conway on Wednesday. All shots were available light at 3200 ISO and 2.8. The lights in the new arena in Conway are pretty good....a heck of a lot better than any of my home gyms

1/2 a game

Cabot and North Little Rock played a half of girls basketball on Tuesday. The game was called at halftime because of the violent storms which hit Arkansas and caused lots of damage and killed a few people.

I was able to get a really good shot of Cabot's Jenna Bailey getting fouled by NLR's Malaya Leggs. Bailey hit the shot for a three-point play. I shot the pic with a Canon 40D and Alien Bee B400. 1/250 sec, F 4.5 at 650 ISO. I was extremely happy with the shot.

HS Wrestling

I shot my first amateur wrestling and I really didn't know what I was doing. Luckily, it was only practice for Cabot HS and I had some decent images. It was also the first time I had used my Canon EOS 40D, which rules! I love WWE wrestling but these kids are working hard in learning the rules and techniques for wrestling.

New update, finally

At the "urging" of fellow coworker Marc Henning, I decided to put up some pics from last week.

I shot a basketball game on Thursday, Nov. 29. I used an Alien Bee B400 with direct flash. There was no way to bounce in that gym. On Nov. 30, I shot the Carlisle-Mount Ida Class 2A state semifinal football game. Carlisle is my alma mater and they came up two points short, which really stinks because I was looking forward to going to the state title game at War Memorial Stadium.

Also, one reason I haven't updated in a while is that I've been doing extra duty at work with my mom not feeling well with her cancer, then she fell a month ago and did three weeks of rehab. Luckily, we got the Carlisle paper each week. I don't know how but we did.

Let me know what you all think.

Mark