Long Beach Middle School Boys Track

Twice a year Long Beach Middle School's hold their middle school track at Lakewood High. This past Saturday was the Boys League Meet. This meet includes all of the middle schools in Long Beach (approx 27+ school) that compete in both field and track events.

This is my 8th year covering middle school track and each time I try to capture as many of the athletes as possible. The meet usually starts around 7:30am with the field events (shotput / high jump / long jump) and then at 9am continues with the track events. I believe out of the 8 years I've been doing this, this is the most shots I've taken (approx 1100), so needless to say I have a lot of pictures to go through, but in the mean time, here are some of my favorites.

Cal State Long Beach Men's Basketball

Not too long ago, well prior to the start of high school football I was hired by Gazette Sports (an online / hard copy sports paper), which covers the Long Beach area. I was provided CIF credentials for high school sports as well as credentials for Cal State Long Beach. Now throughout football season I covered Lakewood football and would provide them with pictures for their online site as well as their paper, but like all things do football season came to an end for me.

So what now, well that's what I was thinking until I got a text asking if I could cover the Cal State Long Beach Men's Basketball vs BYU. So there ya go, that's how my first time covering a college basketball game came to be. Oh - and there will be more, that I can guarantee.

Ok, now to the game. With shooting high school I have a lot of freedom as to where I go to position myself, that all changed when shooting this game. I was limited as to where I could go and had to deal with a few other photographers. Don't get me wrong, I didn't have any problems, just had limited positioning.

With that said I have to say with this being my first basketball game since last year I am very happy with what I ended up with. So enjoy the shots.

Higham Family Session

Recently I was asked to photograph the Higham family, which to be honest I was little nervous about. I don't really do portraits, especially family portraits, although I want to do more of them I'm concerned about presenting them with good quality images. Not putting much thought into, but later I came to the realization that this shoot covered three generations and it was an honor to photograph them together.

So I will say I am very happy with how these turned out, but you be the judge.