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This weekend I was fortunate enough to shoot the WIAA Boys’ State Basketball tournament for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. It was a lot of fun watching these athletes compete at the state-wide level. While I was fortunate enough to see Pulaski win, I also had to see Oshkosh North and Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran lose. While shooting high school athletes, it’s never fun to take the losing photo. However, at this level when I’m shooting I’m thinking about the families that took the journey along with the athlete and am trying to memorialize the moment for them too. Not everybody gets to play at the Kohl Center and capturing that moment to be cut out and put on the fridge is one of the reasons I love being a photographer. So here are some of my photos from this weekend, thanks for looking!

Also if I had a fan of the weekend award to give, I’d give it to this man from Randolph. What a costume!

Today was the third snow day of my college career. While it technically wasn’t a true snow day, I’m glad to see UW-Madison snow day traditions still took place, especially the Bascom Hill snow fight. The challenging part about covering the snow fight is that it feels like an actual fight between the Lakeshore and Southeast dorms. It can be especially challenging to make good frames while trying to duck and avoid snowballs, which I swear were made out of ice this year.

I think my favorite photo I took all day was when I was heading toward Bascom. I walked underneath the Chazen overpass and in between two of the walls that hold the building up was a bike courier waiting for the bus, trying to avoid the cold. It might not be the best frame, but this semester I’ve been trying to carry my camera around in hopes of finding little moments like these.

This blog has veered over into major football territory and I wanted to share something that had nothing to do with the gridiron. These are photos I’ve taken since May that I really like, but don’t really know what to do with. If anything they were taken without a story or anything in mind. I like to think of them as “photo doodles.” Thanks for looking!