J-E-T-S!!!! JETS JETS JETS

I spent another week at NY Jets training camp and came away meeting some very nice people. One guy was a local photographer named Dave Burbank. He is a freelancer up here in Cortland and does some pretty nice work. Also at practices this week that helped pass the time away were three of my buddies from down in NJ Chris Pedota and Jeff Zelevansky and Dave Bergman and NY Jets Team photographer Al Pereira . So the week flew by and I had some cool shots as well.

Here are a few of my images from the week:

Happy 4th of July

Ok it has been a long time but I am posting this as a tribute to the 4th of July 2010

Who Let the Dogs Out!!!!

I was assigned the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in NYC for the next 2 days and it is a real dog day afternoon. I have fun photographing animals. They do not talk back and are a real hoot to take their picture. Enjoy some of the images I made.

THE YANKEES NEW HOME

What an awesome day, I was assigned the 1st media walk through of the new Yankee Stadium construction tour. It was scheduled for 12;30pm and it was a 4 hour tour of the new House that George is building. I shot the crap out of it and when I was done I had sound and images that needed to be put to together for an audio sound show. The COO of the Yankees Lonn Trost gave the more that 75 media members and photographers the grand tour of the new baby. Up and down we all went and everywhere he took us was just another great moment to take a nice image of a new historic baseball stadium. Enjoy the slideshow.

Tour the new Yankee Stadium

Super Bowl Parade Celebration

What a day, I had just landed at midnight from covering the Super Bowl with fellow Star-Ledger photographers, and I get home hit the pillow and wake up again at 6 am to head back into NYC to get my position for the big Super Bowl victory celebration for the Giants. John Munson and myself met up at his home in Manhattan and headed down together to City Hall. We got into position at 8:30am and waited on the podium til the parade down the Canyon of Heroes ended at City Hall. That was about 1:30pm. So the festivities began and as it moved along I was taking tight shots of all the participants. Well I do not know why by I had a thought that when Michael Strahan came up I was going to need a wider shot so I began shooting with my 70-210 when he began do the "stomp" and jumped up in the air. This was just like at the Super Bowl and I caught it again just like at the Super Bowl. So here are my 2 images of "The Stomp". As the GIANTS STOMPED THE PATRIOTS OUT!!!!!!

ESCAPEE RETURNED TO JFK AIRPORT.....

On January 10th the escaped prisoner from NJ was returned to the states via Mexico to JFK Airport. It went so smooth, the US Marshal's office helped amazingly as they kept us informed as to when and what door this perp was to come out at the Terminal at JFK. It all worked well as he was escorted to the car waiting. I got so close I was amazed and sent the pictures to the desk before he arrived to Westfield where the Star-Ledger had other photographers waiting. A good day and a smooth police photographer situation.....

Giants in Buffalo

I spent what was probably one of the worst weather days in lovely Buffalo for the Giants and Bills. The day started off with the temperature in the low 20's at game time. I was prepared with many layers and my Northface McMurdo and I keep dry as the weather changed from bad to worst. As the 2nd quarter began the skys opened and rain which quickly turned to sleet and then hail as I was shooting this important game. In the images below you can see the weather and how they just kept playing. By the end of the game it was snowing and that was the fun part. Snow and Football perfect together. I sent all my images and made deadline. Then I headed to the airport which was another fun adventure. The flight was scheduled for 7 pm. In short I took off at 12:45am and got back home at 3 am. A long but fun day...........

YANKEES SEASON OVER !!!!

This was an image that pretty much defined the end of the Yankees season. NY Giants Jeremy Shockey disagrees with the call in the 2nd inning as Cleveland Indians' Grady Sizemore #24 is at the plate. This image was caught by me for a split second after the umpire made the call. A ball. Shockey like the rest of the Yankee fans reacted and it was to be a long night.

STEAM PIPE EXPLOSION

What A night. I was dispatched to the steam pipe explosion from Newark. A quick 15 minute ride on most nights turned into a 1 hour and 30 minute ride. When I arrived at 7:30pm the daylight was fading fast and I had 20 minutes to make a picture for deadline. I parked at 36Th and 3rd and walked to the scene at 39Th and Lexington Ave. That was where I came upon this scene. I shot some images and moved them on my computer. I had them to the photo desk by 8:01pm. I then went back to the scene and it was now dark. I looked at this building on the corner of 39Th and Lex and buzzed all the apartments til one buzzed me in. I got on the elevator and went up to the top, it was a 7 story building and a roof that went outside, and with my 300mm shot this image at an 1/80 of a sec at 1250 iso and made the image and went back down the elevator and sent the image back to the office. It arrived by 8:38pm and made the inside big . I was very please to say the least and even told Rachel French, my night photo editor that that image was fuckin sweet, and she repeated it in the office. All in a days work .

To Flash or not to Flash...........

09/09/06: This was a funny night at the US OPEN Women's final. Maria Sharapova first lifts the trophy and the top of it falls off. I was shooting without flash and caught a sequence of the trophy coming apart at the top. If I had used flash I would not have caught every image as I saw later that many of the wire services only caught it after she had lost the top and not the whole expression. To add to this I continued to photograph with just the natural light of the event and she later hugs the trophy and I caught another photographers flash and it made for a nice image as well as she wins the 2006 US Open vs Justine Henin-Hardenne in the Women's Final in Queens, New York. It just goes to show sometimes using a flash to fill does not always pay off.