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Glenna Engquist, Wenatchee, gave the photo staff an e-mail about her robin diary and how she saw her first robin this year so early. I went to her home, set up a camera with a 300mm lens and doubler and waited for only a few minutes before the bird appeared, almost on cue, for a photo session. I was expecting hours of waiting and conversation with Glenna and her husband Glenn but our visit was cut short by the robin’s early arrival.
Caught an interesting moment on video Monday at the scene of an accident on Mission St. when Glen Widener with the Wenatchee Fire Department nearly went down on ice. Here’s a still from the scene and a video link but when you get to the link click on the auto accident video.
Glen looked like he came out of it alright but I’m guessing he may have had to make a visit to his friendly chiropractor.
Had an okay night of shooting basketball Friday at Eastmont. It was an exciting game, close till the end, but my best photographs came from an unexpected and unplanned halftime show.
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One thing I noticed from tonight’s Eastmont basketball game was the look on the faces of the Wildcat players when they got into a close game with Southridge in the fourth quarter. The looks reminded me of the faces I saw on Brewster’s championship teams from the last five or so years. There was no panic, no bickering among the team. It was just pure concentration and confidence. And after the win; no celebration but more like a look of disgust at how close the game was.
You may not have realized it but Thursday’s paper contained images on page one and page two that were revolutionary for The Wenatchee World newspaper. On those pages contained photographs produced using frame grabs from videotape. It’s almost like stepping back into shooting film. The photographs by Kelly Gillin and one by myself,
were pulled from our new video camera.
And today’s newspaper’s front page has a frame grab image made by Kathryn Stevens.
This quality means we can begin using the video camera more and more and use video and sound as an exciting tool to tell your stories.
Check out our video page for the videos that came from these stories.
Jay McGuffin’s Goat grapplers sewed up its second consecutive unbeaten season in the Caribou Trail League last night with a dual meet victory over a tough Omak squad. The Pioneers came into the match in second place at 7-1 against the 8-0 Goats. The win secured Chelan its second straight league title. McGuffin is 14-0 in league duals in his two-year tenure with the Goats and the two league titles he has won are the only ones in the 49-year history of the program.Chelan is primed for another postseason run, as sophomores Gage Schmidt and Davey Anderson both earned valuable experience at state last year. Schmidt was sixth at 135 and Anderson was eighth at 160.
The Wenatchee boys basketball team started its practice Thursday night with a drill invented by Brett McGinnis to maximize physicality. Not too complicated really.McGinnis throws the ball into the paint, where three Panther players go at it no-holds barred. First one to make a layup wins. No fouls, no traveling, no eye gouging or punches below the belt. You get the idea. It’s basketball UFC-style.”We did this every day my first two years here because we were so soft,” McGinnis said. “Anything I can do to get these guys playing more physical basketball, I will do.”The Panthers have a tough weekend ahead of them, with a game in a hostile road environment against a tough Richland team tomorrow, followed by a rematch with Pasco at home on Saturday.
Gotta give a shout-out to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights men’s basketball team, who got their first Big East win of the season Wednesday night against No. 18 Villanova. The Knights move up to 1-6 in the league with the win, which came at the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC), which was rated by ESPN as the toughest arena in the Big East for visiting teams.
Before all Wenatchee High School sporting events, the crowd salutes our fine country with a lovely rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by LeAnn Rimes. Prior to the Panthers boys basketball team’s 63-50 win over Moses Lake on Tuesday, I paused while listening because I heard more than one voice singing.Perhaps spurred by the long-awaited return of American Idol to our TV sets, the entire Panther sideline was singing along to the National Anthem. Next thing I know, the fans have joined in.Wenatchee team manager and good buddy Jared Blane says Austin Bryan started the trend earlier this season and the rest of the team followed suit. I must say, I’ve been covering high school sports for a while and I have never felt so proud to be an American while sitting at a press table.Well done, boys.
I have to be honest. I didn’t expect too much from this photo request, covering an awards ceremony of an honorable mention award. And I really just showed up to take a few close-up pictures of bus passes with children’s posters printed on them. Our photo staff is too busy to attend most award ceremonies and the public probably doesn’t want us to use the space to run such a photograph anyhow. But as I waited for that chance to take a macro photo of the passes, the unexpected happened right in front of me and my camera. It was a natural, and visually exciting reaction that will make my week. I’m so glad I was blessed to be in the right spot, camera powered, and wide angle lens on, to capture the moment as Tiffany Snyder suspects she made a mistake on her poster that cost it from being selected as one of the posters to be used as a bus pass. I was able to get four frames off, the first out of focus, before she returned to her normal sitting position.
An even better reaction shot was published in Monday’s newspaper, a photograph made by staff photographer Kathryn Stevens. The reaction from the two students watching the primary subject really frames and makes her picture.
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