Ronald McDonald All-Star Girls and Boys Basketball

The next weekend I shot some more high school all-star basketball games. Clark gym at RIT hosted the boys and girls Ronald McDonald senior games. The athletes were very impressive and it was fun for everyone involved. I definitely will try to make these games every year. The only problem with the game was the gym lights were so dim that it took a lot of work to get some decent shots. Click here for the rest of the basketball pics...

Section V Wrestling Super Sectionals

I am finally getting to the end of my editing for the winter season and some of the galleries were being finished slowly. Skiing and wrestling took up a bunch of my time for sectionals this year. Anyways, I photographed the semifinals and finals at RIT in the Gordon Fieldhouse but mostly division 1. The semifinals were held early in the day on the 13th of February. Here are a few shots. Click here for the rest of the pics...

The second gallery is mostly D1 Finals but has a couple matches from D2. It also includes all the D1 top 6 podiums and is in the Gates-Chili section of my site. There were some great matches and emotion for the second part of the day. Click here for the rest of the gallery...

December Indoor Track @ RIT

It took a week or so to go through photos from this gallery and put up as many athletes as possible. I finally finished editing down the pics and getting them uploaded to my site. Anyways, trying to get the blog moving again so here are a few shots from Friday, December 11th, 2009 at RIT. Click here for the rest of the gallery.

Super Sectional Weekend

Last weekend was wrestling sectionals at Fairport High School for Division 1 Class AA. This weekend was Super Sectionals, where Section V's best from Division 1 and 2 showcase their talent to qualify for states. Some very impressive wrestlers from Section V. The unfortunate part was not being able to shoot the finals due to hockey sectionals taking place at the same time. I used the same remote method as last weekend and got a few decent photos.

Super Sectionals: Wrestlers

Super Saturday Part 1

Had a very long day of photography Saturday. I started at 9:00 am at RIT's Gordon Field House for the high school track and field event. The RIT Invitational contained many teams in and outside of Monroe County. I have never shot inside the field house so I just tryed to keep all the distractions out and shoot one thing at a time. Anyone who has been to one of these meets knows the commotion of all the different events going on at once.

I found myself trying to shoot as many Gates Chili participants as possible. This meant shooting the pole vault and then a 3200 meter runner as they passed me where I stand. It did get very crazy trying to get all the GC athletes, but I did my best. I also tryed to shoot some of the better athletes as they participated because you could possibly see these kids in an olympic setting sometime in the future. You never know.

Anyways it was very difficult because of the dim lighting, but a few photos came out relatively well with some noise ninja applied. I had to leave early (2 pm) because I had to be at the Chocolate Ball at 4:30 pm and still needed to charge the batteries and get dressed up. You can read about the ball in Super Saturday Part 2....

More Athletes: RIT Invitational 1-31-09