This past weekend marked the end of my month-long swing through the state tournaments of Wisconsin and Minnesota as I traveled down to Minneapolis to shoot the Grand Rapids boys basketball team play for the Class AAA championship. The Thunderhawks, despite being ranked third, did not earn one of the top four seeds. The logic...
A lot of what makes a good sports photograph comes from the athlete's face. You might have an awesome shot of a point guard flying through defenders, hands everywhere, player frozen in the air, but if the face is blocked, it more often than not ends up in the circular file. The face is one...
At its most basic level, cauliflower ear is the result of blows to the ear damaging the cartilage and allowing fluid to collect. The cartilage separates from the skin and dies, the ear becomes permanently swollen and deformed and resembles a cauliflower. However, for those in sports such as wrestling, cauliflower ear is almost like...
I spent this last weekend photographing some of the best wrestlers in the country at the NCAA division one wrestling championships in Omaha, NE. My dad had been going to this tournament for ages and this was the first time things came together so that I could go. Most of the wrestlers at this tournament...
