I have photographed many seasons of Soccer games and I thought I would try my hand at some Basketball.  You can view PSA soccer pictures online here.

Photographing basketball was quite different from soccer though.  Basketball is played indoors with limited light and depending on the age of the children playing the playing rules are different, so often there were bunches of kids together going after the same ball.  It was a fun learning process, using different flashes and camera settings.

Below are a few pictures from the 2007-2008 school year.

Through WBFJ (Local Christian Radio) I won tickets to the Winter Jam 2008 concert.  Then I won the Winter Jam Super Fan drawing giving me front row seats and full access to back stage.  We met with almost every artist (Pure NRG, Mandisa, Skillet, BarlowGirl and Mercy Me).  NewSong was also there, but we didn't get to meet with them.  It was quite a fun event and to experience it from the front row and back stage was amazing.  We even toured a tour buss and a guided tour of back stage. 

Because the lighting is so different on stage at a concert, I didn't know what to expect when photographing it.  But I think I did real well for photographing my first Concert Event.  Below is just a sample of the nearly 300 pictures I took that evening.

  Pure NRG (Pure NRG OnLine)

  View all the PureNRG pictures here.

View all NewSong pictures here.

  

 

View all MercyMe pictures here.