Category: Photography

I finally have posted photos from the Duke vs. UNC basketball game. This is a game full of emotions and, as you can see above, body paint!That turned out to be a long night for me, as is typical when Duke and UNC clash in either in Chapel Hill or Durham. The game was at 9pm, but I arrived at 5pm to start setting up remote cameras, laying out various cords that I would need and other set-up. I left the Smith Center around 2am. So it turned out to be about a 8-9 hour day for me and many other photographers.

After the game, Bob Rosato (Sports Illustrated), Jeffery Camaratti (UNC) and Kevin Cox (Getty Images) went for a late night snack at Hector’s just off Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The UNC vs. Duke game is always a huge basketball game in America. It was of course broadcasted live on ESPN nationwide. Steve Kirshner, athletic communications contact for UNC basketball, said that there were 64 photographers covering the game! That is an amazing number, even if we were talking about the National Championships, and reflects the great interest in this match-up. I’m a pretty lucky guy to be able to sit on the floor for that game.

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UNC Lacrosse Project: Cold Practice

Today was the second day of practice for the team. They arrived back to campus last week from Christmas break but were doing weight training and conditioning before this week. Before practice started, North Carolina was having some beautiful weather. 60 and 70 degree days were not unusual to find. But someone upstairs has a sense of humor it seems – just as outdoor practice started, the temperatures began to plummet. With the wind chill, I think we were around the mid 30’s. I was pretty thankful that I didn’t live in the Northeast. I bet the boys at Cornell and Dartmouth have it way worse. I was trying to feel some sympathy for them, but after my feet began to hurt from the cold ground, I stopped feeling most everything.

I didn’t take very many photos today. My fingers were getting stiff from the cold making using the camera uncomfortable. I was also battling the light with darkness now arriving earlier in the day from the time change.

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UNC Lacrosses Project: Why Do It? And How It’s Going.

After finishing the Andrew Brackman project I wanted to start a new project that provided a good challenge. As early as Spring 2007, I knew the project would be about lacrosse. Lacrosse is such an interesting sport in both the play and the equipment. On the field the action makes …

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UNC Lacrosse Project: Junior Dinner

Until Spring semester starts in January, there probably won’t be any further postings on the project. The guys will be starting final exams very soon. I’m not exactly sure what I will do with myself while not working on the project. Acutally, I do know. I have gigabytes of photos to sort through, caption and back-up to my PhotoShelter account. That will probably keep me preoccupied over the Christmas holiday. I’m backing up all my photos online so that they are backed-up offsite just in case my computer crashed or my house burned down. It would be a huge loss to me to loose all the work I’ve done.Tonight though was the junior dinner. Mrs. Haus was a champ to come home earlier today from Ohio State and cook a meal for a hungry set of guys plus a hungry photographer. Tonight she made a chicken casserole, salad, bread and a homemade cherry cobbler.Before the meal, coach Haus’ youngest son Grant was able to once again sucker a player into playing him in a game. This time it was on the Nintendo Wii instead of paper football. Chris Cortina was the first victim and was promptly downed with ease by Grant while playing boxing and football. The other players said goalie Grant Zimmerman’s skills were legendary and he was nominated by the other players to take on little Grant and preserve what pride the players had left. I didn’t see how the Grant vs. Grant match-up played out, but big Grant was showing a respectable performance on the outset. My apologies to the seniors but I will be missing their dinner. I have to be in San Fransisco next week and New York the week after for business.

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