A Fremont High School Football game with unfamiliar gear.

My good friends at Borrowlenses.com let me borrow a few lenses for the Samsung LPGA tour that is taking place tomorrow in Half Moon Bay. To be exact the lenses are a f4 500mm IS, 16-35 and a 15 fisheye. since its been a while that I have used these awesome lenses I thought to take a walk over to the High School next to my apartment and get acquainted with them. Anyway... its a bit tough to shoot under high school lights already and with an f4 that didn't help but did help to get used to the lens. Enjoy the photos.

CSM vs Sierra College Football

What a great battle with two great community college football teams... CSM and Sierra. Here are some photos of the game... enjoy!

Burlingame against King's Academy Football

Burlingame was having a hard time keeping up with King's Academy running back!



They where down 21 nothing when I showed and still in the first inning. burlingame had a run and made it 14 to 28 but still two touchdowns away.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

"The Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA is hoping that the new Disney movie “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” will inspire viewers to adopt Chihuahuas."


Yay Chihuahuas!!! my favorite dogs!!! HA yeah right... lol

Glass Pumpkins

"Barry Farley, of Fallbrook, holds a glass blowing demonstration on Friday at the Palo Alto Art Center. The art center is holding its 13th Annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and will sell the art over the weekend. For more information on the event visit: www.greatglasspumpkinpatch.com."



Today we where lacking art for our Palo Alto paper and what better than to fill it with glass pumpkins.

Woodside against Seqouia High School Volleyball

Not much happened yesterday... as far as exiting photos mainly meetings and such so I dont think boring photos are called for so here are some photos from the high school game I covered... Enjoy!

Girls Water Polo

As you can probably tell that the water polo season is upon us. Nothing exiting as a story goes so I just wanted to share some photos with you guys!

Basic Three

As exiting as it is that a new library opened in Portola Valley a couple of weeks ago, I just wanted to take the time to showcase the images as an example.



What kind of an example? What am I talking about?



I am talking about the basic rules I apply to my daily assignment and limited time schedule. I mentor a couple of people who would like to learn the photojournalism trade and I preach to them about how to approach a subject and the key to getting a good image out of a subject.



A lot of the time when you are covering a local event you can find your self no wanting to do it or not inspired to get a good image... especially when you only have about 15 min to capture what you need. So what the heck is you basic rule? you may ask.

Wide, close up / medium shot, and detail.

With a wide shot you are basically already covered even if all you other images did not turn out well. This is key because you never know what can happen.

Close up / Medium shot using a zoom or getting close with you wide angle is a very good idea and can be ran with a wide shot or run on its own showing impact

Detail shot can be used as a background or a filler or a billion other things it can be used for.

Those basic shots can be found within 15m min. If you have extra time then stick around and get creative... you never know what you can find!

School Issues

"7th grade teacher Daniell Kostenvich goes over some math problems on Wednesday at Cesar Chavez Academy in East Palo Alto. Due to the lack of funds the Reavenswood School District is having a hart time to keep up with technology and basic classroom needs."

more on the story can be found here: http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-10-2-ravenswood

Civil Air Patrol

The Civil Air Patrol in Palo Alto held an open house Tuesday to showcase their new plane.



"Captain Philip Blank explains how the planes controls work on Tuesday at the Palo Alto airport. The Civil Air Patrol held an open house to introduce their new Cessna 182 aircraft assigned to Group 2, California Wing, serving the greater Bay Area."

Serra High School againt St. Francis Boys water polo

St. Francis High School visited Serra yesterday to duel it out in the water.



St. Francis dominated most of the game holding a large lead in the third quarter.



Boys water polo is naturally faster and more aggressive with more opportunities to capture good photos. I recomend water polo to any one who is starting off in sports photography. All you need for the sport is a 70-200 and you are set.

How Dirty are you???

Just too funny. I went on campus at Menlo College in Atherton to shoot a girls high school water polo tourney and saw this written on the window of the car! I thought it was funny and thought to share it with you. I dont remember if I posted my Chuck Norris photo yet but that is fairly funny as well. If I did not post the photo ill dig it up and post it...