Although I'm not a sports reporter, last year I had a good time covering a football game. Umatilla was in a playoff game in Coos Bay against Gold Beach and I offered to cover it. (It was a good excuse to surprise my mom for her birthday).
It was a fun experience, so I offered to take some photos of the Vikings season opener Friday night in Umatilla. Well, I found out rather quickly it was MUCH easier to take photos in the bright sun (the game I covered last year was in the afternoon) than moonlight.
Anyway, I got a few decent shots, (one ran in the East Oregonian on Sept. 5 and another is supposed to run in The Hermiston Herald on Sept. 9), but
these two I just took for the heck of it because I thought they would be pretty cool.
I borrowed a detachable flash and shot the Umatilla - Grant Union game. I entered the first two and the copy desk chose the one on the left to run. It was representative of the game. Grant Union, unfortunately was all over the Vikings.
