Anyone who participates or used to participate in competitive sports can remember the tension before the start. I photographed the Washington State Girl’s Swimming and Diving Championships a couple of weeks ago and in between events I became much more interested in the anxiety, excitement, and adrenaline of the competitors before they swam: the nervous […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Keep your Eye on the Bull
“The scandal should start a national conversation—perhaps including congressional hearings—on how the pursuit of athletic glory has created sports subcultures on campuses in which no one is accountable to anyone….there is a common feature: a culture that turns athletes into gods and coaches into high priests. When eyes became so blind as to sweep child […]
Windows to History
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” Henry David Thoreau WWII Veteran Marvin Kruse’s eyes: witnessed the beaches of Normandy when he landed there in 1944, discerned between comrade and enemy during street fights, kept a careful watch on mortars and artillery in 5 […]
All that Glitters
I heard one of my favorite Bruce Springteen songs on the radio yesterday and it still gives me chills – “The Ghost of Tom Joad” with guest Tom Morello. The video can be seen here and even though I’m not a big screeching guitar fan, the guitar solo at the end is insanely incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-c6GphpAeY&ob=av3e […]