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playbook test

2011-04-29T17:17:00.000-07:00

just a little test to see how my new blackberry playbook works on my blog. l think pretty good!

HVC 171 Keeps On Rolling

2011-03-10T17:38:00.000-08:00

The Heartland Volleyball Club 17's just keep on rolling. The won the Hardblock/Lou's NE Sports Classic Tournament March 6th for their 2nd tournament win in a row.

They started the day off against Northeast NE Jrs winning the the 1st game 25-20, but then dropping their 1st lost in quite a while loosing 20-25. They came back the 3rd game winning 25-20 to win the match.

Then they went on to beat Blair Elite 3 straight 25-15, 25-19 and 25-11. The girls are really playing like winners, and seem to be unstopable at this point. This win put them in the championship bracket.

Their first match in the championship bracket was against the Nebraska Dominators who was ranked 2nd in overall before this tournament so I knew this wasn't going to be easy. HVC won the 1st game 25-20, but the Dominators came back in the 2nd beating HVC 23-25. Heartland had been here before in another tournament against the Dominators, but this time it was Heartlands turn and they won the tie breaker 15-13 to advance to the championship game.

They faced Northeast NE Jrs again in the championship game who played very strong in the opening match of the tournament. Heartland was ready though and won 25-21 and 25-18 to win their 2nd tournament in a row. This win put them in 2nd place in the overall rankings for F17 Silver.

Heartland 171 NWU Challenge

2011-03-02T16:56:00.000-08:00

Well The Heartland Volleyball Club 17's came to play at this tournament. They started off the 1st game of pool play by spanking Orange Crush 25-13, 25-13, and never looked back.

The 2nd match was closer, but the girls never trailed winning both games 25-22 and 25-19 against South Central. They were on cruise control it seemed.

The 3rd match of pool play was more of the same, Heartland beat Lincoln Heat 28-26 and 25-20 to finish pool play undefeated and move to the championship tournament.

Heartland faced a good Star City team, but took both games 27-25 and 25-19 to remain undefeated and set to play the championship match. As things would have it though, there was a time limit on the tournament and there was no time for the championship match. Heartland was awarded champship shirts though, and they were well deserved.

Everyone of the girls gave 110%, there was no way they were going to lose a single game. They had to fight back in a couple of them too, but you could tell they were not going to accept defeat.

Heartland Volleyball 161

2011-03-02T11:33:00.000-08:00

Well, time for some more volleyball. This time it was the Heartland Volleyball Club 16's playing in the NWU Challenge tournament. Their 1st match was against the Orange Crush, and both games were very close with Heartland taking the 1st one 25-21 and Crush winning 25-22 in the 2nd.

The 2nd match of pool play against Grand Island was also a split with G.I. winning the 25-18 and then the Heartland girls bounced back winning the 2nd game 25-23.

The last match of pool play was against South Central and ended in another split with a 22-25 loss and a comeback win of 25-23. They were then 3 and 3 after pool play, but every game was pretty close and could have gone either way.

Heartland advanced to the Consolation tournament were they pretty much owned the day beating Star City 25-20 and 25-20. Then facing South Sarpy and winning 25-17 and 25-22 to win the consolation bracket.

Heartland Volleyball Sweetheart Special Tournament

2011-02-15T16:05:00.000-08:00

The Heartland 171 volleyball girls had another great showing and the Sweetheart Speical tournament in Springfield, NE. They started things off by defeating Bellevue Black 26-24 and 25-10 in the first match. They then went on to beat Lincoln Heat 26-16 and 25-18. The last match of pool play against the Nebraska Dominators started off with a loss 23-25, but the girls came back to win the second game 25-21 to advance to the championship bracket.

They faced Bellevue Purple the 1st match of the championship round who knock HVC out of the championship last week at Digfest. This week Heartland got their revenge by winning 25-19 and 25-22 to advance to the championship match against the Nebraska Dominators. Heartland suffered two tough losses 17-25 and 24-26, but they all played hard and never gave up all day.

Lindsay made several great digs, and Tonya, Heather, Maria, Anna, Amanda, Kali and Katie all played strong at the net. Amber made several nice sets to set up kills too. The parents even got involved to add a little more spark.

Heartland Volleyball Digfest

2011-02-09T11:28:00.000-08:00

The Heartland 171 team played very well in Bellevue's Digfest tournament on Sunday. They beat there first two opponents 25-11, 26-24, 25-17 and 26-24 before losing their first game to Attack 22-25. They rebounded the 2nd game against Attack winning 30-28 to move them into the Championship bracket. They got off to a quick start beating Bellevue in the 1st game 25-17, but then lost a hard battle 28-30 the second game. The tie breaker 3rd game was pretty hard fought too, but ended with a loss 13-15. All and all they outscored their opponents by 29 points and won 6 games and only losing 3, but it was where the loses happened that ended their day early.

YBL Basketball

2011-02-05T15:59:00.000-08:00

A tough battle in the Youth Basketball League between the Pet Hospital and the Fremont Rotary Club today. Pet Hospital won the game to remain undefeated. With one more game left next weekend they look to have a good chance to stay that way for the season.

2011-01-23T17:12:00.000-08:00

More black & white from my Holga. Some good, some just so-so. I'm really having a lot of fun with this like toy though.

2011-01-19T18:17:00.000-08:00

The Heartland Volleyball Club started their season off right. The 17-1 team won the Silver division of the Elite Classic tournament in Omaha.

These are a few photos from their first match vs. the Bellevue Black team. Heartland got off to a good start winning this first match.

1st Volleyball tourny today

2011-01-16T15:51:00.001-08:00

Volleyball has started now and the first tournament was today. The Heartland 17's did very good. I should have some photos up soon. The girls played very good.

Made a new party dress for my Holga

2011-01-15T18:58:00.001-08:00

I found a place that sells replacement leatherette kits for classic cameras. They don't make one for the Holga, but they do sell self adhesive leatherette sheets in several colors.

Latest Senior, Tonya

2011-01-15T17:32:00.000-08:00

Here are a few we took the other day in the snow.

Here are a few photos from Tonya's senior session. We actually started these in the spring which explains why she is wearing shorts in some and it's snowing in others.

2011-01-05T18:53:00.001-08:00

Well I'm having a blast with my Holga, so now I think it's time to dress it up a bit. I found a place where I can buy camera leatherette, so I'm going to make a new party dress for my Holga. I'll post more info and pictures of what I did later.

More Holga Goodness

2011-01-02T13:26:00.001-08:00

These were taken in various locations, some in Tulsa and Some around Fremont. There were no photoshop adjustments done to these. I scanned the negitives and added the watermark is all.

The grafitti is in one of the alleys in downtown Fremont, The Barns and Tractor is near Fontanelle, Ne. The picnic tables are at the state lakes in Fremont, and the train is at the fairgrounds in Tulsa.

Here are a few more from my "Plastic Fantastic" Holga camera.

2010-12-27T19:15:00.000-08:00

As promised I've finished developing my first roll of film from my Holga. Here are the photos, and I'm pretty pleased. Developing the film myself was pretty fun too.

2010-12-20T16:45:00.000-08:00

I've picked up a new camera that I can wait to get some photos with. It's a Holga, a cool little plastic toy camera that uses 120 medium format film. The construction of these little babies is well less than perfect, which is the beauty of the Holga. I'll also be processing the film myself and scanning them, so can't wait to get started. Hope to have some photos posted after Christmas.

Been too long

2010-12-11T19:34:00.000-08:00

It's been a very long time since I posted anything on here. It's not because I haven't been doing anything, more like I've been doing alot and not much spare time.

FEVR and the snow

2010-01-01T17:51:00.001-08:00

This is a local diner train, The Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad. We had somewhere around 18" to 20" of snow and the FEVR had to deal with it. I took these photos a couple miles north of Fremont as the train was busting through a snow drift.

FEVR and the snow

2010-01-01T17:51:00.000-08:00

This is a local diner train the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley railroad

Abandon Buildings

2009-11-16T17:10:00.000-08:00

I was out early last Saturday morning just doing some fun shooting for a change. I'd been told about this abandon school house and old gas station. The gas station is in Spiker, NE. the school house is kind of in the middle of nowhere. I also came across this farm house that looked abandon.

2009-11-07T07:08:00.000-08:00

The last regular season game for the Fremont Tribune Vikings. They ended the regular season undefeated and the number one seed in the playoffs.

But as these things usually go, the week off and most of the practices rained out before their 1st game of the playoffs, seemed to make them a little sluggish.

They played the Packers in the 1st game of the playoffs and the Packers came to play and played their best game of the season. The championship game is Sunday between the Packers and the Lions.

2009-10-24T19:25:00.000-07:00

Well it's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been pretty busy shooting soccer, football, volleyball and seniors. Here are a few from a recent senior shoot. This is Sarah, I really enjoyed this session. She was a lot of fun and wasn't afraid to climb through or on anything to get a good shot.

Soccer Has Started

2009-08-26T18:16:00.001-07:00

Soccer has started, I'm still waiting for football though. Had some bad sunlight for this game, next time I'm heading to the other side of the field. There will be more soccer, football and volleyball to come.

Doe and her Fawn

2009-08-22T14:44:00.001-07:00

I took a little trip out to the lakes this morning to see if I could spot some wildlife. There wasn't a lot out, but did find this doe and her fawn right beside the road. Then in another area there were a few turkeys.

Car Show

2009-08-16T19:31:00.001-07:00

It was a pretty uneventful day today, just doing some work for my regular job. I took some images at a car show in Hooper, Ne. a while ago so I'll post some of those. Some pretty nice rides there.

Vacation

2009-08-15T08:07:00.000-07:00

Two post the same day, got to make hay while the sun shines I guess.

I took a short vacation camping with my kids and grandkids. It was sure good to get away and relax for a few days.

We did some fishing and had some pretty good luck with the white bass trolling from the pontoon boat.

There was lots of wildlife to photograph, mostly Egrets and Great Blue Heron, but tons of them.

It was really good to see my kids and grandkids since I live so far from them, don't get to see them as often as I would like.

Farm Wedding

2009-08-15T07:25:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile since I've posted, I really need to do a better job of this.

I shot a wedding a couple of weeks ago. It was a pretty casual affair at the couples farm, but fun, especially for the kids. The couple Mike and Carla are friends of mine too. Here are a few images.

Spring Fling Tournament

2009-06-06T06:33:00.001-07:00

It's been a while since I've posted anything, but so far no followers have signed on, so probably no harm done.

The Fremont Nighthawks had their annual Spring Fling baseball tournament last weekend. Lots of games played starting on Friday and ending Sunday evening. The Fremont teams did well with Taylor & Martin winning the 13u division and Neuhaus Trucking taking 2nd place in the 11u divisioin.

These were all A and AA teams in this tournament. 5 teams from Fremont and 26 teams in all.

There was some very good baseball played all weekend long, I shot 11 of the games that the Fremont teams were in. I wish I could have made them all.

More Strobist Assignments

2009-05-03T12:28:00.000-07:00

This is the 2nd strobist assignment. We did some experimenting with color correction gels on our off camera flashes. Specifically CTO gels (color temperture orange) These come in different strengths, full, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8.

For this assignment I use Tonya for my subject, a much better looking subject than myself this time. We started with the full CTO which is quite orange. Then graduated down to the 1/8 CTO. I bounced the flash off a white background on Tonya's left and used a reflector to bounce a little bit of light back onto the right side of her face. I'm still undicided which I like the best, but I'm leaning toward the full CTO even though it really intensifies the orange.

Dillon Brothers Double Header

2009-05-03T12:12:00.000-07:00

May 2 the Nighthawks 10u select baseball team Dillon Brothers Harley played a double header against the Millard Hooks. Game one was all Dillon Brothers winning 15 to 5 thanks to some good hitting and aggressive base running, not to mention playing some pretty good defense.

Game two was a bit more challenging maybe too many hotdogs between games or something, but the bats went to sleep for most of the game going in Dillon Brothers last at bat down 9 to 5. But then the bats woke up with the first two batters reaching base and then a 2 run tripple by Tyler Push started the ralley and they didn't stop until they pull out the victory winning 10 to 9.

2009-04-24T08:25:00.000-07:00

Well baseball season has finally begun. This was the first game for the Nighthawks 10 and under team sponsored by Dillon Brothers Harley. They played a very good game leading a double A team that had already won 4 games this year the whole game until the last inning. They were at a slight disadvantage in that this is the first year that these boys have been allowed to steal bases, so they were caught off guard a little in the last inning to lose by only one run. Still they have a lot to hang their hats on seeing as how it was their 1st game of the year and they played well.

Weekends with Wildlife

2009-04-18T14:04:00.001-07:00

On the weekends I like to get out early in the mornings to try and capture some wildlife shots. I live pretty close to a cluster of small lakes and there is usually a pretty good varity of wildlife running around. Here are a few shots from Friday morning. When I took the photo of the Egret it was actually pretty light outside, but I used the spot meter on my camera to meter off the white feathers to render most of the background dark.

The Pelican and Cormorants I took from one of my favorite spots elevated above the lake. The Pelicans migrate through here every year, but this year there wasn't near as many as last year.

Well Baseball starts tomorrow so you will start seeing lots of sports images here soon.

Strobist Assignment

2009-04-17T11:57:00.000-07:00

Well I finished my strobist assignment, and it was a lot of fun. I wish I would of had a better subject than myself, but that was the assignment. We were to take a self portrait using a small flash off camera bouncing the light off a white wall. Well I don't have any white walls in my house, so I used a white backdrop.

The first shot shows my set up then the next one is the final shot. Like I said a better subject would have been nice, but that's the way it goes. It is a lot of work being the photographer and the model at the same time. My garage wasn't the best background either, but there was more room to work with there.

Hopefully we will continue to do more of these assignments, they are a great way to learn new things.

Back from Oklahoma

2009-04-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

Well I had a great time at the Blue Moon Meetup in Oklahoma. And took lots of photos. If I can figure out how to post some I will.

This is Lindsey and Kelsey, they were fantastic. They put up with 80 photographers for 4 days telling them to move here do this turn this way and always had a smile ready when they needed it. I met a lot of new friends and fellow photographers and got reaquainted with several that I met at last years meetup. I'm already excited about next year.

My next project coming up is some Strobist assignments, I'm not sure what they will be yet, but as soon as I do I will post more on that. I'm going to try and post more often too.

My first blog post

2009-03-19T18:10:00.000-07:00

Since I'm very new at this, let me just say that I'm photographer in Nebraska so there will be lots of photos posted in my blog.
I will be going to Oklahoma in about a week to meet with about 80 other photographers so I'm sure I will have lots of storys and photos to talk about when I get back from that trip.