It looks like today’s finally the day that my sister has her baby, making me an uncle, my parents become proud grandparents, and Abby and Spencer become wonderful parents. Here is a quick maternity session we did a few weeks ago.
maternity – Images by Adam Cairns
I shot the Suburban East Swim League all-league meet at Hilltop Pool last week. This assignment definitely took me back to my days as a swimmer and coach at the Catalina Swim Club.
Youth Swim – Images by Adam Cairns
Just got my Photoshelter account up and running. This is a bit of a test post to see what the slideshow looks like. It’s from this week’s Columbus Crew game against the Kansas City Wizards. Hopefully this new workflow will result in more blog posts and much better archiving on my end.
As far as the game, it was a physical match, as can be seen in the images of Steven Lenhart’s broken and bloodied nose. Seemed like most of the calls went against the Crew, which definitely frustrated the team and fans. They lost 1-0.
I just got back from a wonderful honeymoon with my new wife in the Dominican Republic. Here’s a collection of iPhone snaps from around the resort where we stayed.
Unfortunately these aren’t the types of hits the batters were looking for. Before this season, I’d seen a lot of batters hit by pitches but didn’t take the photo of those actual pitches. I guess you could call it luck that I’ve shot it three times this year, two of which came from different games on the same day.
And one near miss:
I’m not exactly sure what Anheuser-Busch wanted me to take a photo of, but it said “photo opportunity” so I took a picture. Check out my flickr page for more photos from the brewery tour.
In lieu of last night’s health care reform vote, I figured this would be a topical post. Two groups of protestors gathered outside the office of Ohio Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy last week to vocalize their positions on the issue. Most of the protestors stayed on separate sides of a divided driveway, but those few who crossed over were met with some heated argument.
We didn’t have a photographer assigned to the protest, and I hadn’t even heard that it was taking place. I was actually on my way back to the office from another assignment in Grandview when I stumbled across the protestors making signs and setting up. With nothing else assigned for me to do the rest of the day, I pulled into a nearby parking lot to see what the fuss was all about. We don’t cover a lot of news events at the paper I work at, so given the historic significance of the debate, I’m really glad I stopped.
To determine who makes it to the state meet, swimmers first had to place in the top four at the district meet at Ohio State’s McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. We had two photographers covering the meet, but each of us was still responsible for getting multiple shots of 10 different schools. Here are some moments I caught between races and of swimmers that weren’t necessarily on my assigned list.
Standard poodle Haku narrowly escaped the crashing sled run of these two young ladies during a snow day in Marysville on Feb. 11. I don’t know that I can remember a winter with snow on the ground this many days. Hopefully Buckeye Chuck was right, and spring is just around the corner.
Let’s start 2010 off right by posting my monthly highlights. January is right in the heart of high school winter sports season, so that’s mostly what I’ve been shooting. There were a few other gems of editorial assignments too. Just click on the photo to view the next picture in the gallery.
