Action Packed Weekend

Friday night was under the lights once again. This time all the way to the outskirts of San Angelo, Texas, to photograph the Aubrey football game in the colder and damper than last week stadium in Clyde, Texas. Thank goodness Clyde had LED lighting in their stadium, and I still get good results even though the push is to 3200. I’ve been pushing a long time …

Aubrey high school sports football action photography.
My rules for sports are simple, and violated here in the interest of peak action. The rule: Hands. Ball Face. Two-out-of-three worked this time.

Two more couches made the grade this past weekend, and it was like a community thing — just two blocks apart. Denton seems to have “couch hatches” where they just come up from nowhere, and then they’re gone. I am two couches away from my “First 50 Couches” project being complete, with as much as whimper as a bang.

I will be adding to my Denton Stock Photography this week as well. The images are from the Denton Farmer’s Market and the most recent UNT Homecoming Parade. Funny about that parade; it looked like the last homecoming parade – almost exactly – and that must have been more than a decade ago. Strange how some things never appear to change, isn’t it? The same can be said for photography, but much more concisely: IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE. That may be hard for today’s youngsters to believe, but it’s true.

I can imagine someone has even taken it on themselves to spend two years of their valuable lives chasing down couches on streets somewhere other than here in Denton. I can imagine it, but I have never seen it, but because I have never seen it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done. Take that to heart.

High School Football – YUP Still Got it

So the big guy with the rollout leading block number 73 – that’s the guy I was photographing Friday night under the lights in Fort Worth, Texas. The Aubrey Chaparrals came through in the end, and the end took a long, long time.

That’s because a total of 98 points were scored in the game, and for anyone who has photographed a football game — the higher the score, the longer the game. And when the temperature of 38-degrees is leaving frost on the trainer’s table (behind the players) … the challenge is compounded by appendages that don’t work as they should.

My attire was worthy, except for the fact of my frozen fingers, and by the middle of the fourth-quarter, a frozen camera sending me error codes for what I assume was “too cold to function.”

Funny story is that when I was sitting down and editing during halftime, the parents came up behind me and introduced themselves. But the first thing the Dad said was, “I love your fly fishing videos!” I was taken aback of course. I was expecting a gushing and proud parent, and I got a fellow fly fisher! I regained my senses, and realized that not only were these the parents of the player, but the Dad was also an avid fly fisher. Small world.

HOW TO SHOOT FOOTBALL – LESSON 1

I guess I could tell you my secrets, and if you have any sense at all, you will figure it out just by looking at the image above. HINT – angle, it’s about angle. Feel free to contact me if you want to know what “ANGLE” is, and I will be happy to tell you – voice to voice.