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Thursday, April 16, 2009

About 250 Portland Trail Blazer fans camp outside the Rose Garden as they wait in line to buy tickets for the playoffs. The first person in line showed up at noon and will have to wait a full 24-hours in line.  Bruce Ely/The Oregonian
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About 250 Portland Trail Blazer fans camped outside in the cold at the Rose Garden to wait in line to buy tickets for the playoffs. The first person in line showed up at noon and will have to wait a full 24-hours in line. Thanks to Tom Boyd for the heads up on this. I was supposed to go in the morning, but Boyd heard on the radio that people were already out there after tonight's game. I decided it would make much better pictures in the middle of the night than in the daytime.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Goodbye

NBA official Jack Nies gets a hug from the other officials as he wraps up a 29 year career as he retires. Photo by Bruce Ely of The Oregonian
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During the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder I overheard Portland Trail Blazer GM Kevin Pritchard ask official Jack Nies if the game would be his last. Turns out that it was indeed his last game of a 29 year career. I thought it made a nice picture as the other officials working the game gave Nies a hug.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Blazers vs Lakers

Brandon Roy shoots over Kobe Bryant as the Portland Trail Blazers face the Los Angeles Lakers at the Rose Garden.  Bruce Ely/The Oregonian
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Doesn't get much better than the Lakers at the Rose Garden. The Blazers are really playing their best ball of the season as they enter the playoffs for the first time since the 2003 season.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Blazers clinch playoffs

Portland Trail Blazers guard Steve Blake passes the ball to LaMarcus Aldridge. Photo by Bruce Ely of The Oregonian

Went on the road with the Portland Trail Blazers to photograph them clinching their spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2003. There was talk about great locker room access if all went as planned. Well, it didn't go as planned. In fact -- worse case scenario happened. The spot was clinched with the Suns getting blown out by Dallas before Portland even played.

Since it was not a Blazers win that clinched it for them, the PR folks decided not to let me into the locker room. What made it worse is that Portland lost to Houston. So, I had to try to get pictures of the team making the playoffs in a game that they lost. Ugh.

Anyway, I photographed this picture of Steve Blake on the trip.

Access is so important and so difficult to get in professional sports. For that reason alone I think photographing professional sports is way overrated.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Remote control

Picture of Portland Trail Blazer center Joel Przybilla blocking the shot of Mike Conley of the Memphis Grizzlies. Photo by Bruce Ely of The Oregonian CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW
I think my remote camera bailed me out tonight. I didn't have much that I liked from my position on the floor. Here are a few others from the same remote camera. It was mounted on the standard just below the level of the backboard.

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I hate to put too many restraints on this blog. I'd like to keep it to sports photography, but I'm affraid I will run out of things to say pretty quickly. So, my plan is to post both old and new pictures from my adventures in photography.

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