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My Year in Pictures Part 4: Sports and Athletes

This is part 4 of a 6-part series of my year in pictures. Part 1: DeKalb County. Part 2: Youth. Part 3: Faces
2010 provided the most regular work schedule to my career, ever. With the addition to Rob Winner to the Daily Chronicle photo staff (from one photog to two) I was able to establish [...]

Posted 04 January 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal § Sports ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Another fortnight

Here is another update of work from the last two weeks. Well, two or three may be older than that, but I still want to share them.
This kid had the most amazing emotions during his reading/writing tutoring session in DeKalb, Ill. This was how he reacted when he correctly wrote the letter “G.”

Posted 29 July 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Feature § News § Sports § portrait ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Caught red-handed!

I have never caught someone stealing one of my photos in person. Whenever it has happened, it has been some Web site taking sports photos (usually NIU football) from this blog. Sports blog sites normally don’t have any art budget and don’t subscribe to the AP, so they take what they want. High schoola also [...]

Posted 17 March 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Ethics § Industry § Sports ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Busy weekend

Hinckley-Big Rock won two very close games to win their second class 1A state championship. My weekend began Friday morning with a road trip with two writers from the Daily Chronicle heading down to Bloomington, Ill., to cover three state tournament games: 2 basketball, 1 wrestling.
The first day was the semi-final basketball game for H-BR. [...]

Posted 28 February 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Girls basketball championships this weekend

For a second time in a row, the Hinckley-Big Rock girls basketball team is going to the state championships in Bloomington, Ill. Last year I followed the girls as they brought back their high school’s first ever state championship… in anything.
H-BR’s Maxzine Rossler does a radio interview after her team won the super-sectional game in [...]

Posted 26 February 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , ,