MCLA Championships

This past weekend I went to Denver to cover the MCLA Division I and II semifinals and finals.  The championships were held inside the Dicks Sporting Goods Park, home of the Colorado Rapids of the MLS. 

The Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) is a national organization of non-NCAA, college lacrosse programs. The MCLA currently operates in the US and Canada with 213 teams in two divisions, across ten conferences.

This year Utah Valley University made it to the finals after beating Westminster in the semifinals.  UVU lost to St. Thomas in the finals.

BYU advanced the quarterfinals and lost to the eventual champions, Michigan.

Michigan - 2010 Division I Champions

St. Thomas - 2010 & 2009 Division II Champions

Complete game galleries are on my website:

www.haslamphotography.com/Sports/Lacrosse

Eagle Scout

My neighbor asked if I would take his picture as he needed an 8x10 to display at his court of honor.  His tuff of hair sticking up I thought about taking out, but left it in as it is just a part of him.  There was not a lot of time to spend with him as any teenager in their scout uniform isn't trilled to get their picture taken.   

Popular Sport Images

Here are some of my recent sport stock photos:

Acoustic Ipod

The other night I was looking for something new to shoot for stock and saw my son's guitar sitting in his room.  There has to be millions of stock guitar pictures so I was still looking for inspiration.  I then started surfing the stock sites and most guitar pictures were of people playing the guitar with focus on their fingers.  My son was listening to his Ipod and started think how to mix the two, then the idea hit me to have the Ipod play the quitar.  I'm not sure about it, but the end result is odd, different and unlike anything I have seen on stock sites.

To see these or any other images, click here.

MCLA Cover Shot - April 2010 Issue

I just got my copy of the April 2010 (volume 3, issue 4) of the MCLA Magazine which has one of my photos from the UVU Westminster game as the cover.   As you can see the snow was coming down pretty hard.

Also in the issue there is a half page shot with the University of Utah and Westminster again.

US Lacrosse Visa Platinum Card from U.S. Bank

My most popular lacrosse image was found in use as the background picture on US Bank's US Lacrosse affinity card.

Since I am a customer of US Bank for over 10 years (and they are one of my former employers), maybe they can cut me a break on the interest rate.   I wonder how many of there cards have been issued?