Day Two and the competition is heating up! Some very very closely matched teams out there… Stop by and check out a game or two… or four… 🙂 It’s easy to do, depending on the day there are as many as four games playing at one time!
See you out at the ball fields!!
Photo of the Day! I can’t let this one go… the annual tournament ball on bat photo…
And we’re off…!! The first day of the Nevada District 1 Little League Tournament kicked off today! And like the past few years I’ll be posting a Photo of the Day! Tonight’s was a very simple one, not sure I even need to say much about it! Check it out!
Each night of the Tournament I will post a photo here as well as on Twitter and Google +… Sorry, won’t be posting to Facebook… If you’re the photo of the day, stop by our tent, we have a water bottle for you! See you out at the park!!
Here’s a link to the full gallery of the entire tournament. www.instaimage.com/NVDIST1
You can also get there by clicking the link in the menus on the side.
Photography is a very multifaceted hobby/profession/art… The 2014 NIAA State Track meet this weekend was an event that I went out to try a few things photographically as well as record some important events in the lives of some of these athletes… saw some broken State records… saw some real gut level performances of some kids that clearly wanted that impressive title… “State Champion”… There were a lot of impressive athletes to watch!
Track is very different than most of the other sports that I cover… it’s all about you, the athlete, putting your very best out yet right next to you is the next guy/gal also trying to do the same, who’s the fastest today? Gotta love competition!
So here are some photos that I shot… Congratulations to all the athletes for making “the big game”… I hope our time in Carson for this great event was enjoyable and fruitful for your athletic careers!
Friday “night” this was our sky… cleared up a lot for Saturday but the clouds gave us a nice show and kept the temperature down a bit on Friday…
Carson Freshman Valerie Meyer starting in the 400m. … this was the STATE meet… looking forward to seeing her compete for the next few years! She’s also a great soccer player for Carson High.
Here’s some of that photographic “trial”… slow the shutter speed and pan with the action… 
I’m gonna call him Mr. Carson High Track… Corey Reid competing in the high jump… 
This was a great thing to witness… Randal Cunningham, Jr. was attempting to set a new national mark at 7 feet, 2 ½ inches… he already had won the State Championship but was pushing for more! His sister also won the State Championship… you would think it’s in the blood or something… 😉
Mr. Carson High Track again… here’s the start…
… and the finish… Corey squeaked out a 0.02 second win this time… The Regional final went to the thousands of a second… State Champion Corey Reid! Bet that feels great! … and a shout out to Josie Daggs in the background cheering!
Southern Nevada Centennial’s Tiana Bonds easily striding to her State Championship in the 300m hurdles…
Rivalry games are always entertaining… Darrell called the second of the two games “chippy”… to say the least…I don’t like to be too cliché-ish… but last night, the second of the two games, was very surreal to me… As many know, I was a soccer player… and while I’m learning, the small idiosyncrasies of baseball still fascinate me…. I explained what happened last night to my dad as the type of thing that Disney puts into a animated movie for parents and kids never understand or in some cases even see them until they’re older…. it’s an atmosphere that I can just try to soak in all the new knowledge of the game….
In case you missed it… here’s 4 ½ innings in under two minutes, the GoPro battery didn’t make it the whole game… 🙂
I also shot stills… not a lot, but some… Here are a few from the night… and I’ll tell you right now, it’s my blog and I’m gonna get a little sentimental here today…. 🙂
It was Senior night Wednesday at Douglas and Thursday at Carson (see Ron’s Photos for the DHS Senior Night Photos…). Most of these guys don’t know this but I first started shooting these fellas back in 2007… (you don’t believe me… how about Danny Guthrie 2007, Carson American… here… and there’s more on the site… Hey, Jace, TJ’s trying to copy your hair style from 2007… here ) 🙂 To say it’s been journey, is an understatement. I wish you all the very very best.
This photo… I just liked the way this one turned out… kind of a gritty-ness to it… love that the trees in the back have all filled out, helps those backgrounds. … and I also want to give a special shout out to Dustin… Dustin, in my mind, you’re THE team guy this year. You were always encouraging your team, cheering, you’re fun to be around in the dugout, and even though you played an important roll on the mound, your persona in the dugout will be what I will always remember about you, it’s a very important part of a team… thank you for that! I know you felt you had a rough night last night… but that’s what a TEAM sport is about… your guys pulled it together and put one in the win column on a very special night for you fellas.
When it’s Carson Douglas… Just KNOW that this guy is probably up to something… 🙂 
The play that would send a Carson coach packing… if you want to see the entire play from where I was… it’s HERE… Here are three shots… no way of seeing the plate from my angle… TJ was up to bat (leftie… thus why I’m where I am…)…
The umpire felt strongly… apparently…
uh oh… this can’t be good… 🙂 Guess not everyone shared the opinion of the umpire…
… and I’m going to end kinda where I started above… with a walk down memory lane. While the season isn’t quite over (playoffs start next Tuesday), a new face (to some…) has emerged in the last two games for Carson High. I’ve known him for years… remember those photos from above, same stuff, different year… I know he’ll be a good sport about this… and I look forward to the next three years photographing him pitching for Carson High. Welcome to Varsity Bryce!
Know this kid? Carson City 9-10 All Star @ Governor’s Field during the 2009 Nevada District 1 All Star Tournament.
It’s my first baseball post of the season and we only have one more week in the regular season… Life and business are keeping me a bit more busy than I can really handle right now… the alternative is far worse so I can’t complain…. Stay tuned for some “advancements” coming soon… 🙂
So, I made the trek to Manogue today, one of the Manogue fellas was asking about who/what I was shooting for… this is the fifth season I’ve been making the trip up to Manogue for this series… hard to believe that! Looking back at the first year and comparing those to today’s photos… my has a lot changed in equipment…!
On to the photos… Manogue won today… 10-0 in 4 ½ innings…
No MLB Replay needed here, the umpire got this one right… good call Blue!
This was the first game I’ve seen Chase pitch… the “light” on the pitchers at the Manogue field is quite nice… nearly complete front light… 
I promise, he’s not really this mean looking normally… I just had to post this one… the look on his face is pretty intense!
That is not Photoshop dirt… 🙂
Dom was waiting for the runner to arrive on this one…
Joe’s throw to Josiah… see what happened next with the next image…
Josiah in a rundown back to first… runner out!
Got some OK ball shots today!
Here’s that front light again… nearly no shadows, great stuff… photo geeky stuff, but…
Welcome back to the Mound Jace! His first pitches of the season.
You have to watch out Megan… that shutter can click off a few shots pretty quick! You’re a great sport about it too!
I’ll take it! Another image showed up on www.thepicturesoftheday.com!
After some time of getting all the ducks in a row… I was able to get a remote camera up behind the backboard at the Reno Bighorn’s game Friday, March 21st. You never know what’s going to happen when you put up one of these remotes so it’s kind of a proverbial “crap shoot”… which I guess is fitting for Reno, NV! 🙂
So… after returning from the game and frantically prepping the photos for submission to the wire service I got them all loaded and headed off to bed… when I woke the next morning to check out the status I was very pleasantly surprised to see this!
… and as I told my wife, I wish it meant more than “… it’s on there…” but that’s the life, keep trying to make great photos every time I shoot and see what happens!
Here are a few links from the 2014 NIAA State Division 1 Basketball Tournament in Reno, NV.
You always come away from a Carson Douglas game with some great memories… and Friday night’s games did not disappoint!
In addition to the links to the left under Current Events you can also find all the High School images here…
https://instaimage.com/chs
https://instaimage.com/dhs
Onto the games…
As I was looking through the photos of the girls game a theme very quickly developed… the girls were all flying! 🙂 Take a look and you’ll see what I mean!
Carly driving, or rather “hovering” to the hoop…
McKenna “hovering” down the court…
Kelly shooting for three… and… those toes… 🙂
I played around with a longer lens tonight… made for some very tightly cropped images in camera… sorry, I’ll stop camera geeking out now…
All kidding aside with flying girls and camera geek stuff… The atmosphere for the girls game was great, the girls all played hard and it was exciting to watch… both teams are going onto the regionals, Douglas will host Spanish Springs and Carson will travel to Reno. Good luck to all the teams in the playoffs!!
Onto the Boys game…
I hope people don’t look at me during times like this and think I’m irreverent toward my country when they see me snapping away or in this case making a pano with my phone… As a photographer you’re always trying to make great photos. In my opinion, a packed house with all the attention on Old Glory with our National Anthem playing is one of the very greatest moments in any competition. I’ll be honest, I get choked up sometimes. We take for granted the words and the meaning of it but with everyone of us knowing active military and veterans, it’s a VERY significant moment, God Bless our Troops and God Bless America! And when I started to see how all of this was setting up, I put down my three DSLR cameras on the floor and reached for my iPhone and grabbed this pano of the “moment”. Sometimes it’s knowing what tool will do the best job at the moment… $X’s of fancy camera gear laying on the floor can’t capture this so easily.
Oh, and… see what you missed if you weren’t there! Look at that place!
The boys game was entertaining for an entirely different reason. When Douglas visited Carson James Herrick, Douglas’ 6′ 10″ center made at least three blocked shots inside when Carson tried to penetrate deeper into the key… and it’s been well known all season that Carson doesn’t have much size and would be need to run a quick outside shooting game with the weapons they have… well that all made for some VERY interesting run of play with these two teams!
This first shot is of James making a block inside during the first half… Carson spent most the rest of the game trying to NOT have this happen! Check out the video below this photo, it’s a time lapse of this same play…
Quick and sneaky was the game plan for Carson… here Cameron Price sneaks in from the far side for an easy layup with the inside vacant of The Big Man…
And when Carson did penetrate, get that shot off before The Big Man could get to you…
What do you do when he is over a foot taller than you AND jumps as high off the floor?
Watching these games and knowing these kids is a lot of fun for me. Yea, one team wins and one looses so I’m happy for one and sad for another… but when I get to see them excel at “their” move or play it’s particularly rewarding for me…. This photo is the one photo that I was on the line for tonight. I believe for every year I’ve been covering Austin Evans I’ve tried to make absolute certain that I get him shooting a three… and with him graduating this year I can confidently say, in his last year I grabbed my very favorite of all the years…. Again, check out the time lapse of this shot below, watch closely, it’s quick!
It was also fun to see the adjustment to his outside shot that Carson made… after this one, he had one more opportunity and from my vantage point and to the untrained “Austin follower” it appeared rather cocky but he almost taunted the Carson defender to come at him and when the defender didn’t take the bait, Austin stepped up and hammered a three… needless to say, that didn’t happen again in the game! Carson put a quick scrappy Kyle Denning in Austin’s face from then on…
When you break down a game and study the stats you quickly realize the little things that made the difference. For as long as I’ve been shooting in this area (…since 2009…) Douglas has ALWAYS had a pretty lethal three point game. You take away three point shots from Douglas and the game is equal… it’s the little things right?
Here Pat Johnson shoots for 3 of his 12 points for the night.
Both teams will be on the road for the first round of the playoffs. Douglas will travel to Reed Wednesday and Carson will travel to Spanish Springs. Best of luck to all the teams in the Regional Playoffs!
Just a few video clips, there are a lot of photos in the gallery to the left… Carson Douglas next Friday (Valentine’s Day…) at Douglas… hope to see you out there!