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Winter sports portraits – 2010

Portraits are so hit or miss for me. Sometimes I can walk away from a shoot more pumped than a documentary assignment. Others, I sweat bullets and get anxious before I am even done shooting. Thankfully, this season’s crop of portraits was mostly anxiety free.

Posted 29 March 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal § 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: , , , ,

Irregular sports

I know soccer and track are not exactly “irregular.” But with a schedule full of baseball and softball, I rarely shoot these off beat sports. This past week was the first time I shot either of these sports this season.

Posted 02 May 2009 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Photo pages

I have not had a full photo page since I was in college working at The Daily Illini (it hasn’t been that long since I was there). Here in DeKalb, I have been given several photo pages by both the news and sports designers.
Here is when the Hinckley-Big Rock girls basketball team won the super [...]

Posted 12 March 2009 † Beck Diefenbach § News § Sports ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,