It’s probably not a good thing when you start a blog after midnight with a 6:30 AM wakeup call. But what a crazy fall! Concerts, soccer, football, drive, shoot, caption, edit, post…..
Jambase was having Slightly Stoopid’s drummer RyMo do a blog for their tour, I was asked to shoot them at The Uptown Ampitheatre in Charlotte. Had great access which made for a good shoot.
From there, it was time to begin the soccer season with Winthrop at Charlotte. Charlotte now ranked 13th in the NCAA tournament has had a great recent run, although Winthrop made it to the second round last year.
Next stop was Bank of America Stadium for NFL exhibition football, the Panthers against the Steelers. Few starters, but good experience for someone with limited experience shooting this sport!
Variety is key…the Georgia Theatre, great venue for Moon Taxi, Black Taxi and the Barlettas. Although Moon Taxi was the headliner, to me, Black Taxi absolutely rocked the place! Black Taxi below:
Moon Taxi
The Barlettas
Back to Charlotte and the Fillmore for one of my new favorite bands, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. It was Grace sitting in with Furthur at All Good that gave me my first Rolling Stone picture!
One week later, a complete switch and the Panthers against the Giants. Picked this game because of how competitive I was sure the Giants would be…oops! Tough sun that day, but that’s life.
Cam Newton simply has an
amazing presence when he
comes on the field!
College football next, so different from the pro game. More electric, fans crazy and at UGA almost no place to shoot from, particularly in the end zone. North Texas is not a great team, but UGA did their best to give them a chance.
Touchdown…celebration!!!!
Rain, rain, go away…but that’s life.
Back to soccer, Winthrop had a lot of away games before coming home to play Brevard in Rock Hill.
LOVE THE HAIR!!
From Rock Hill to Clemson, SC to see the Tigers of Clemson play Furman at home. Clemson has had a tough few years but clearly coming back with a much better team/program!
Header for a goal!
Now back to pro football. My great predictions continue. At the beginning of the season I selected the Giants and the Falcons as two of the pro teams I would shoot based on prior records and the high likelihood that the game would be very competitive….oops again. The big rivalry between the Panthers and the Falcons is not much this year.
The tough schedule continued as I went back to UGA for another game. Really a fun place to shoot, great environment, great media room, great fans and great homecoming game against App State.
DAWGNATION….and long time cheerleaders!
Thursday night game at Clemson playing Georgia Tech. Very cold, Clemson media room is a joke, but again, the college environment is amazing.
Regular soccer season coming to an end. Winthrop needs a win to make the Big South Tournament. They beat UNC Asheville but lose in the first round of the tournament. Oh well, next year.
Most recent effort was on Monday. MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS……HELL YEA!! Brady, Newton, Smith, Talib, who could ask for anything more.
Aqib Talib and Steve Smith talking to each
other about where they will go out to for
dinner after the game, haha. I was afraid
for the official!
I knew Steve Smith would be a
target. He was and came up with
a 42 yard reception in the first
quarter.
Controversial ending to the game. Flag picked up, but it’s over, no use talking about it further.
But this hit was amazing. Ted Ginn couldn’t have gone down harder if he had run into a brick wall!
So finally a pause. Caught up with the blog. Been a great fall so far. USC vs Clemson in Columbia on November 30th, Clowney’s last home game. Women’s soccer final four in Cary after that and who knows what else. I work is play and play is play then you have a great life!!
