Been doing a lot of feature hunting lately as part of my co-op internship with the Daily News. Sometimes I really don’t like just driving around, hoping to come across something interesting. Most of the time, I prefer the moments that happen right when I’m already there, ready with my camera. But then sometimes, you come across every-day moments that you can make look really cool. Nikki, a two-time state championship golfer, makes it look easy.
My best friend Tyler finally officially became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha (also know as “The Pikes”) fraternity at WKU. I’m glad all of his pledge stuff is over with, he’s defiantly going to have some killer stories to tell his kids about.
We all knew it was going to happen, and I was in denial of it the whole time. Football season is over with. I feel like it was just yesterday I was talking about how I couldn’t wait for the season to start, and as soon as it came it was over with. The beginning of this month was the Russell Athletic Gridiron Bowl, better know as the Kentucky State Football Tournament. For the first time in forever, we had three teams local to Bowling Green playing. During the 6 games across two days I saw tough guys collapse in tears, while other teams carried away the winning trophy. What I was really looking forward to, and what everyone in this town considered the finale’ of football season, was when local team Bowling Green High School, who has been completely undefeated, played Anderson and later won the State Championship. They really were the “Perfect Purples”.
A couple of weeks ago all of the schools in Bowling Green had their first bowling match. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association recently declared bowling to be an official school sport, along with football and soccer and all of the other sports we’ve come to know and love (except for baseball, nobody loves baseball). When the official decision was made, I was actually dissapointed because I was looking forward to the possibility of a wrestling team starting in this town in our high schools. Either way, the first bowling match was actually really cool. It’s not like every other “sport” you shoot. I’m just waiting for later on in the season, when things get intense, and a coach flips out on an opposing team just like this scene in one of my favorite movies. More posts to come. Been a busy past two months.
This weekend I went out and shot my first rugby match. Wow, these guys make football players look like total girls. Imagine getting tackled constantly, with no pads or helmets at all. That’s just how intense this sport is. What I loved the most about it is how they toss the ball to to each other, instead of throwing it in the air like a football. Can’t wait to see more this next season. More to come…