University of Miami's Jacory Harris will start on Saturday

Quarterback Jacory Harris returns from a one-game suspension to step right 
into the starter’s role for UM’s home opener, called the "ineligibowl" on Saturday. 

Through the Eyes of Former White House Photographer Eric Draper on 9/11

White House photographer Eric Draper talks about his experience photographing George W. Bush on 9/11. Draper says, "It was a moment of utter disbelief."

Round Two of Think Tank Photo Contest!

The fine folks at Think Tank Photo want your guess in their TTP10 contest.
How many images will ten round one winners take on an 8gb Lexar 600x memory card in one day. You can start guessing now via the link below... Also! There may well be a spot prize for those that SHOUT about the competition using the hash tag #TTP10 on Twitter... oh la la!
Get your votes in NOW!
http://conta.cc/oVfjv0

Good luck and may the best shots be yours!

Awesome Image Voted Top Ten by Think Tank Photo and Lexar Media

 

Think Tank Photo in conjunction with Lexar Media choose a photograph by Al Diaz for their Ten Most Awesome Images competition.

The contest continues.

For round two of the competition the ten winning photographers will shoot with a 8gb Lexar 600x memory card for a day or two, as many or as little images as they like.

There will be a public ‘Guess’ at how many images, collectively, were taken by the winning ten. That winner will win a bag of their choice (excluding the Logistics Manager, sorry!) from the Think Tank Photo website… AND an 8GB 600x Lexar Memory card!

PUBLIC GUESS STARTS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5^th. PUBLIC GUESS WINNER ANNOUNCED FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9^{TH
For contest rules click here.}

Al’s winning image was published on assignment for the book “A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces.”

Al says, The most awesome moment occurred moments before taking this image at the US Coast Guard Training Center. "Before sunrise and half asleep, I stumbled my way towards the mess hall to photograph the trainees at breakfast. The entrance was packed shoulder to shoulder and layers deep of raw cadets. The Chief Quartermaster hollers, make way! An entire company of men and woman stomped their boots then slammed their backs up against the wall, three deep on either side. I walked straight up the middle into the kitchen and spotted the eggs. 

To light up their expressions I placed a strobe on the side, fired by using my Pocket Wizard remote flash triggers.” 

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, knock out eight, it's Octomom in the ring!

Dropping the f-bomb, shooting the bird, Octomom dukes it out with local bartender Cassandra "Patience" Andersen at the Ocean Manor Resort on Miami Beach in Fort Lauderdale on August 20, 2011.

I never wanted to be a tabloid photographer or paparazzi but here I am banging away, shooting frames of Nadya Suleman, aka the Octomom, who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets. The controversial mom conceived them through in vitro fertilization.

Miami Herald writer Glen Garvin called the boxing match “an evening bizarre even by the standards of manufactured media events in what will doubtless be remembered as the golden age of faux fame.”

Using my finely honed photojournalistic skills I scanned the boxing ring, anticipating where to capture the most compelling images, while angling for a view of the crowd and their incredulous expressions.

That’s when the pseudo prosumer photographer piped up and asked the fight promoter to keep the media on one side of the ring so multiple flashes would not mess up his pictures.

Are you kidding me? I love it when I catch an errant strobe in the background. Sometimes you have to stand your ground so I piped up, expressed my concern and stood in a spot that would make famed photographer Robert Capa proud.  He once said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”


Capa may not have had "pulp journo" in mind but I can apply his approach just the same.

Photographer Al Diaz works the ropes. Photo by Michael Laughlin.

“Reggie, Reggie, Reggie!” Henne and Bush give Dolfans reason to dream.