Day 3: State Wrestling

The third and final day of covering state wrestling. I covered the tournament for 6 different newspapers. It was a lot of work, but fun. Nothing like an adreline rush of 5 papers needing photos on deadline! I still shot like crap. I think I was tryinmg to do too much at once and my photos suffered because of it.....but, I got everyone the photos they needed, met all deadlines and everyone was happy.

This is from the 189 match. The kid in the middle blew out his knee in the semi finals and could barely wrestle in the finals. He tapped out 3 different times before they called the match for injury default. Afterwards he could not even stand up to get off the mat. The winner, right, helped him up in a true showing of sportsmanship.

Since none of the people I was shooting tonight showed any kind of emotion, I kind of like the above photo, something different from the action which all looks the same after 3 days.

Now I am off to Mexico for the rest of the month! Yeah! See you in March!