Simply, it started because my wife Cheryl was elected president of the Booster club and they needed someone to shoot button pictures and I was the only person with experience with a camera. And by experience I want to give a brief background of me and the camera.
I had my first working dark room at the age of 16, and by dark room I mean old school chemicals, enlargers and the red light you see in old movies. My father was a professional photographer when I was about 5 and he had all this gear stored away that I brushed off and figured out how to use.
This was around 1982.
Back in those days you had to develop your negatives before you could make prints with this huge enlarger and dunk them in smelly chemicals. I again had a working dark room in 1997 before digital came around.
I have been shooting with a camera since Jr. high and was on the Blazer and Fairbury yearbook as a photographer, I was on the SCC paper as a photographer, and worked for the Fairbury Journal News for a summer before going off to UNK to be a graphic design major.
In other words, I know a lot about cameras.
So my wife recruited me to shoot button pictures and one day I decided I would try shooting football again. The last time I had shot a game would have been in 1983 and 1984 when I graduated from Fairbury.
It was pretty cool getting back on the field, and luckily nobody told me to get lost so I shot and shot and shot. And now I am in my second year of shooting and started a Facebook page to feature those pictures. I hope you have seen and liked the page.
I would like to thank the school and the coaches for giving me the same access as the local paid media and hope I am doing the athletes justice with my work.
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