SPPL Nevada Quailifer

Here are some pics from the SPPL Event in Mesquite:



Some of the best are being saved for magazine submissions.

PSM February Issue Online

Finally the February issue of Paintball Sports Magazine is online at:

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/44ce12a2#/44ce12a2/1

Check out pages 24 through 29 for all my pics. There are few more scattered throughout. Below is a snapshot pages 24 and 25:

I'll post a few from this past weekend shortly.

Published

I have photographs from the SPPL Finals published in this month's issue of Paintball Sports Magazine. Ian Ebersole wrote the story and I look to cover a few events this year with him. I have been waiting for the online version to post so I could provide a link. Once it is available I will post it.

This weekend is the first event of the SPPL's 2009 season. While it is the "Vegas" event, the field is in Mesquite (on the border of Nevada and Arizona).

Website

Please take a look at my webiste (http://www.haslamphotography.com/) as I have changed hosting to Smugmug. This allows me to easily post all the pictures I take at events and provide different view options. It also provides the ability to buy/sell prints and allow electronic download. I have set it up so anyone can download a picture for 99 cents. All types of print options are available as well as the coffee mugs, shirts, keychains, etc.

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Jr Jazz Basketball

Below are three pictures from this weekends fifth grade game. The faces are what make these shots.

The only way to stop his speed was to grab his undershirt.

I used my D300 with the 50mm f1.8 at f2.0 and 1/500 shutter speed. ISO was at 1000 most the day. There are some nice skylights in this gym. What has helped in basketball is taking my monopod and putting my full ballhead on it so I can shot portrait most the time and easily flip it up to landscape when needed. Sitting on the floor, just to the left or right of the basket gives a great angle for the fast breaks and inside play.

Bald Eagles

My family went up to Farmington Bay for the State of Utah's Department of Wildlife Resources Bald Eagle Day. As we pulled in we saw two sitting in a tree.

Driving down further we came to see where most people stopped and were viewing approximately 20 on the ice.
We saw some in flight.
The last picture is probably my favorite. As we were leaving we noticed one in flight and it landed on the tree where the two we saw first were sitting. While it is hard to see on this small post, the two are looking at the one landing and they don't appear too happy to have a visitor.I was shooting my D300 with Nikon's 18-200, maxed at 200mm. The pictures posted are cropped quite a bit. There were quite a few 400mm and 500mm f/2.8 lens out there. We saw a few rental cars with some serious equipment and not all of it was Canon. There were a few Nikonians out there. It would be interesting to know who the pros were shooting for.

We only spent an hour; however, it was quite fun and very impressive. To see the eagles next to ducks, seagulls and geese you can appreciate the size of these big birds.