Finally My Final Final

It’s been quite the semester and I think that for me it has culminated nicely in the form of my video final for this class.

This weekend we made that grueling drive up I-35 to Denton to play in the annual Jingle Bell Hell tournament and a good time was had by all at most times. While we really could have done without the wind, we had a good time and our team really progressed by leaps and bounds from our first game Saturday morning to the time we left having won both of our games on Sunday.

This was my first tournament back from knee surgery and I think that I personally started playing with a bit more confidence each game and even got off three clean throws between defender’s legs.

While we didn’t win any trophies or ribbons, the fruit of our labors was a fortified sense of camaraderie really shines through in the video we made Saturday night while hanging out and relaxing between tournament days.

Enjoy!

 

Football – free (from the preseason) at last!

Last night the Cowboys survived a shootout with the Giants and that inspired me to go back through the pictures I took when my little brother and I went to the opening preseason game against the Colts. I remembered hearing something about a bug being thrown on Tony Romo while he was being interviewed and found Awful Announcing’s take on Pam Oliver’s handling of this situation:

I came to realize that in my picture-taking I snapped a shot of Pam Oliver interviewing Tony Romo just as Romo was trying to get the bug off his uniform. Talk about coincidence… I mean…I totally meant to do that.
The part of the pictures I like best here is Roy Williams and Terrance Newman turned around laughing at Romo and his bug problem at the top of the frame.

 

Blogs I Read

Digital Photography School is a blog that provides tips and techniques for digital photographers as well as news that its readers find important.  The blog gives each entry a designated amount of space for the preview view and each entry has a “Read the rest of this entry” link at the bottom of it.  This is useful because photography tips usually are not the type of things that take up a few sentences, they require examples and the author includes them and at the end of each entry links to related and similar posts are included, which I think is a nice touch.  This blog also has a nice navigation at the top of the page to find posts relating to whatever kind of help you might be seeking as a photographer.  The writing works in that it does everything you can ask for instructional writing to do, which is convey its point without coming across as condescending to its readers.  I found this blog as a result of this assignment, but have now subscribed to it and plan to make as much use of it as I can because I think it will come into use for my photography portfolio class this semester.

Hashmarks by Matt Mosley of Dallas area sports-writing lore (well, maybe not lore, but he is a familiar voice on local sports talk radio and a former DMN writer) is a football blog on ESPN.com, as a result his blog is just another piece of content wedged into the standard ESPN.com visual structure.  I have been reading Mosley’s blog on a fairly regular basis since he started it back in May and it is interesting to see how he’s adapted his writing to the fast, short and sweet style of blogs.  His writing is fairly casual as is the writing of most opinion-based sports writers and most bloggers in general.  Pictures are sporadically used, most likely on the assumption that his readers have already had their share of visual on the topic he might be covering elsewhere on the ESPN website.  He tends to pepper his posts with links as needed and does it neither to excess or too sporadically.  He tends to update just about every time something of matter happens in the NFL, which at this time of year is quite often.  This blog is an easy read and, for me, a fun read because I have a great interest in the NFL and I will likely read it for as long as it stays online.