Good Bye Mr. John Wooden, the world’s a better place because of you!

Friday June 4th the world lost one of the greatest men of all time.  If you’ve never read, heard or known anything about Mr. John Wooden I would highly recommend heading to the bookstore or anywhere you can find a book about him or by him… buy it, it’s worth the money.

Having known who Mr. Wooden was for quite sometime already, I was greatly privileged to hear him speak at an IBM Sales Kick Off meeting that I attended during my time at Big Blue… WOW.  That’s all I can say.  He was a tremendous man; inspirational to the very core of his being and he wanted to share that with everyone.  He will be remembered in a great number of hearts and minds.  Thank you Mr. Wooden for the mark you’ve made on the world.

Action Schedule…

We’ve been very busy trying to get all our league shoots printed and delivered…  I haven’t had a chance to get out much and shoot action… it will all be starting with a fury this week…

Tuesday, June 1st, CVLL Major Cardinals vs. Pirates

Friday, June 4th, CCLL Farm Giants

Saturday, June 5th, TAHO Swim Club (South Lake Tahoe Swim Center) all day

Saturday, June 5th, CCLL Minor Cubs

Sunday, June 6th, TAHO Swim Club (South Lake Tahoe Swim Center) all day

Monday, June 7th thru Friday, June 11th CVLL, CCLL or STLL (schedule not yet available… will update as it becomes know…)

Saturday/Sunday, June 12/13  Carson Valley Girl’s Softball Tournament

See you out at the fields!!

Carson High Varsity Poster

After attending and photographing six games and a lot of Photoshop work… it’s done!  All 17 of the fellas in the top action section and the individual photo from photo day as well with names and numbers.

To the team, thanks fellas for welcoming me into the dugout!  I hope this will be something to help remember and cherish your years playing ball for your school.

Contact me for orders.  We’re doing 16×20 or 24×30 prints.  Remember, 30% of the sale of these posters will go back to the team!!

Baseball and… Snow?

Mother Nature… are you kidding me!

I was supposed to shoot the Carson JV Baseball team and deliver Carson Varsity Posters tonight… but I woke up to 6 inches of SNOW on the ground!!!  Supposed to be 70 degrees by Saturday.  Ahhhhhh, Spring time in Northern Nevada!  Still waiting to hear if the games tonight are cancelled….

High School Baseball Action Shoots…

Yikes!  We just figured out that I’ve got the next three days to get the majority of our High School Baseball shooting completed!  Our schedule and the two high school schedules aren’t friendly with each other so here’s the next three whirlwind days!!

Thursday April 1st  Carson High Varsity at Home

Friday April 2nd Carson High Jr Varsity at Home

Saturday April 3rd Douglas High Varsity and Jr Varsity AWAY at Bishop Manogue (double header, I’ll cover one game of each team)

See you out at the field!

Follow us on Twitter!

Hi All, if you know me, I’m not a huge fan of “social networking” sites… Twitter, Facebook, MySpace…  Well… I’m going to be giving Twitter and Facebook a try this year… more Twitter than anything… so, go to www.twitter.com/instaimage and “follow” us.  During the spring season we’ll be offering “Twitter Only” discounts… so if you’re following us… you’ll know about them and be able to take advantage of them!

How’s that sound?  We’ll see how it goes!

High School Baseball Action!

I LOVE baseball season and it’s finally here!!!

I’m going to get a jump on the action shots for the Carson Baseball team during their game on Friday Morning (March 12th).

I’ll be out at the three Carson v. Douglas games on March 18th (3:45 at Carson) and March 20th (11:00 & 1:30 at Douglas).

I’m working on some very cool collage posters this year for the teams.  I’ll post them here when I get them finished.  They will be for sale and 30% of the proceeds from the sale of these posters will go back to the teams as a donation!!

See you out at the field!

Team or League Photo Shoot Schedule

Just an update on our schedule for the spring.  I will be out shooting action again, I’ll post a schedule for that when we get closer and there are actually schedules available.  We’ve added two softball leagues and Carson and Douglas High School baseball this season so I’ll be running all over the two valleys shooting away!

So far our league/team shoots will be:

Carson High Baseball  March 8th (weather permitting, this will slide day by day until we have good weather)

Douglas High Baseball  March 22nd

Carson Valley Little League  March 27th

Excel Athletics  April 10th

Carson Girl’s Softball April 10th

Carson City Little League  April 24th

Carson Valley Girl’s Softball May 8th/May 10th

Action Photography Early Bird Discounts

Sign up for Action Photography by March 27th and receive the following discounts

10% Discount for Individual Players!  Pre-order by March 27th with a minimum order of $50 and receive 10% off your final order.

20% Discount Team Bonus!  Five or more players from the same team, pre-order by March 27th with a minumum order of $50 each and receive 20% off your final orders.

Contact us for details.  In the upper corner of this page click “back to main site” to return to the home page to find the discount link.

welcome to 2010!!

Hello everyone, we’ve just gone through a major server “occurance” and all of our past blog posts have been… lost… so needless to say, 2010 is going to be a fresh start!!

Throughout 2010 we will be posting discount “opportunities” here on our blog, they will be very specific and have a limited time to be used so stay tuned!  We will also be offering similar and actually more discounts via Twitter so be sure to check us out there as well.  http://twitter.com/instaimage  If you see us out at a game and you have access to Twitter… you might want to check us out there.

This coming spring I’m going to be pretty busy running around the “valleys”… so if you’re interested in action shots make sure you see me or contact us ASAP!!