The Golden Bear

On Monday, May 5, I was fortunate enough to shoot the Jackson T. Stephens Charitable Golf Tournament kids clinic and golfing legend Jack Nicklaus was there to conduct the clinic.
Getting to see the Golden Bear was one of the highlights of my career. I was just glad that Tiger and his caddie Steve Williams (not to be confused with Dr. Death Steve Williams) wasn't there! ha ha

spring sports

This is my first post in a while (at the urging of Marc Henning!).

I've been busy with trying to get the paper out each week, going to the new office in downtown Little Rock on Tuesdays while also covering sports in Cabot, Lonoke and Carlisle. It can be difficult to do a 16 page paper on Tuesdays (minus 4 classified pages and the editorial page -- thanks Jesse and Geoff) then do three sports pages in Lonoke and Cabot each week.

All the photos were shot with the 40D and 70-200 2.8. The pitcher I used a 1.4 TC. I was pretty proud of these photos, which all ran in the paper this past week.

Mark

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.