Finishing School

After four years of preparation it is almost time for me to go out into the real world and get a job. This is not a promising idea in the current job market, but regardless of the state of the economy my graduation date is drawing ever nearer. I've kept myself busy in the past months surviving my last photo class at Ohio University, which while being the most challenging course I've ever gone through ended up forcing me to remember and use all the skills I've acquired while here and also showed me what I need to work on in the next three months. I'll post some of the work I did during that class and some more recent things soon! Good Luck to all of you out there preparing to enter the work world!

Pikes Peak Marathon

The Pikes Peak Marathon is like no other marathon I've ever seen. Runners start at 7 am in Manitou Springs and head for Barr trail up Pikes Peak. They sprint up the mountain with an elevation gain of almost 6,000 feet and back down again. Thats 26.21 miles up and down one of Colorado's 14'ers. The only thing more amazing than realizing people actually do this is finding out that the winning time this year was 3:36:54 (which is apparently slow).

U.S. Senior Open Championship

A mother deer and two fawns run across the fourteenth fairway during the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs August 3, 2008.

Jay Hass tees of on the seventh hole of the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs August 3, 2008.

Joe Ozaki marks his ball's place on the fourth green during the 29th U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor Sunday, August 3, 2008.

John Cook hits across the water hazard on the eighteenth hole during the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs August 3, 2008.

Juan Quiros and Greg Norman wait for the ok to continue play at the eighth after a short weather delay during the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs August 3, 2008.

Tom Watson putts on the fourth hole during the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs August 3, 2008.

Eduardo Romero embraces Fred Funk after winning the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs August 3, 2008.

State Games of the West Triathlon

Saturday I covered the State Games of the West Triathlon which along with being a great event to cover photographically offered something unique, there were two blind athletes competing. My first reaction to the assignment was "How?" I guess I underestimated them. Accompanied by a helper for each section of the triathlon Gil and Ivan were amazing.

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Hill Climb 2008

Hill Climb Fan Fest

Sky Sox and Hill Climb

Thursday morning my alarm clock went off at 2:15 am and after dragging myself out of bed, at an hour that many people around me were just calling it a night, headed off to Pikes Peak for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb practice. The Hill Climb is a race up to the top of the peak along the road that visitors drive daily making the ascent in about an hour and a half. The racers do it in around 10 minutes. Despite being deprived of sleep it really was worth getting up to the 16 mile point of the race to shoot as the sun was coming up.







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