Mike Lloyd Jr

This is Mike Lloyd Jr, a BYU basketball player who is red shirting this year. This was shot in the Marriott Center with a 50mm lens at f4. I was laying down on the ground to get the angle I wanted with the bleachers. I had our Intern Mark Johnston who is 6'5" hold the light way over Mike's head with a light stand so we can get this angle of light coming right from above (thanks Mark). Mike was fun to work with.

State Wrestling

Photographed the State 4A and 5A high school wrestling finals Friday night. Lots of images, lots of wrestlers and a few good bouts. This one is the 160 pound match between Springville's Sebastian Lucio and Tooele's Monte Schmalhaus. I had a woman who was also photographing approach me and she said that I took a picture of her son at the finals two years ago and that she loved the picture that I took of him in his winning match. She liked the photo so much that she decided to take up photography herself and photograph wrestling. She said she liked my wrestling photos more than anyone else's at the paper (I'm not sure I would agree with her) and that she follows my work in the Herald. I was flattered to meet another fan.