Back and Boxing

Life update: I am back in Victoria, Tx working as their staff photographer. So far it has been a little on the stressful side. Growing up is hard. Enough said.

On to the fun stuff: Victoria enjoyed the return of professional boxing on Friday evening. I’ve never shot boxing before and unfortunately in the important fight (and the first one I got to shoot) the local boxer knocked out the other guy in a minute and 31 seconds. Good for him…bad for me. I had lots of fun anyway so here are some of my favs.








Local kid making his professional debut. He is an eighteen-year-old Senior in high school.






Bloody face. I may or may not have gone home that night with this man's blood on my shirt. Welcome back...

Question

Do these football players have to cut themselves out of their shoes at the end of the game?

Crying Boys

I am scheduled to shoot a football play-off game in San Antonio this weekend...again. My only thought is that I hope that they win for the selfish reason that I have run out of ways to shoot crying boys. Here is a sampling from the past week. Please include my past football post in this.

Quiet moment with body language:


Hugging:

Tight, again, body language:


Wider, more body language:



For some variety:

They didn't want to run this photo cause they said that it would upset the readers and there would be angry parent calls. Apparently it is ok to run boys crying and not girls. Oh well. This was from the first cross town high school volleyball showdown.

Symbolism

This is Dorothy. I'm working on a story on her. She has Alzheimer's. (insert puns about going to OZ here.) Sometimes when I try to take a picture of her she smiles at me. Sometimes she does not.



I don't think that I am using this photo but I think that you can draw lots of symbolism from it. Maybe that's just me though? I am currently procrastinating working on the photos for the story because I need help. And to shoot more...but I always need to shoot more. I have less than three weeks of work left here in Texas. (read: I'm feeling the pressure) I had better get on it.

So...Much...Football

Last weekend I had to go to San Antonio and shoot back to back football games. It just about killed me. This weekend I get to do it again. What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger right? The two teams playing were Victoria West High School and Victoria East High School. One lost, the other won. They ran these two in the sports section. I liked the polar opposite-ness of two photos that were taken of football games just hours apart. One side of town is victorious the other...they put up a good fight.



Victoria West’s Ebb Garrett, left, is comforted by his teammate, Xavier Ramos, after they lost their area round playoff game to Weslaco East 35-42 ending their season Saturday at Jerry Comalander Stadium in San Antonio. ANGELI WRIGHT/AWRIGHT@VICAD.COM



Victoria East’s Jaime Thomas celebrates with the trophy with his teammates after they beat Mission Veterans’ Memorial 54-40 in their regional playoff game Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio. ANGELI WRIGHT/AWRIGHT@VICAD.COM

Rocky Horror

I can make you a man.



I wish that I could have participated and drank wine instead of working.

...My life...

Meteor Shower

Wednesday night/Thursday morning I went with one of my co-workers to check out a meteor shower. It wasn't quite dark enough but I saw like 8 of them. We were silly and every time we saw one we jumped up and down. If only we would have had boys and a blanket it could have been very romantic.

I didn't get any on my camera but I still dig these two photos.






Miss Julie Zavala, looking at the stars...
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