Posts Tagged ‘Conifer’
Death Race Competitor Portrait
© Matthew Jonas 2012/Evergreen Newspapers 2012
Yes. You read that correctly. There is an actual event called “The Death Race.” It’s a 24-48 hour endurance race that features some unique challenges. These can range from carrying a 20 lbs stump for several miles, crawling through mud under barbed wire or memorizing and reciting bible verses after climbing up a mountain. Yeah. I’m dead serious about that last one. (Get it? You’re so smart!) If you are looking for more info on the race, check out www.youmaydie.com.
Community Recycling in Conifer
© Matthew Jonas 2012/Evergreen Newspapers 2012
I suppose that I am a little strange but I always get excited when I get to cover a community recycling day. Sometime the most mundane sounding assignments can present opportunities to make really fun pictures.
2011 Year in Pictures: News, Features and Portraits
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
2011 flew by. It was a busy year. This is a selection my favorite (not necessarily my best) news, features and portraits from 2011. Enjoy.
Weather Art
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
Like any good photojournalist, after a good snow storm, you make weather feature pictures where ever you can. Covering the same area for the last 4 years has its advantages – you have a mental address book of all the good sledding areas. I started off going to the areas I knew would produce good pictures but I also kept an eye out for a few new unique locations along the way. It worked out pretty well. Special thanks to my Subaru for driving me through areas that my last car would have easily given up in. Click through for more pictures. Enjoy.
State Cross Country Remote Camera Outakes
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
I set a remote camera during every race I had to cover at the 2011 CHSAA State Cross Country Championships this year. I had some success and a few failures. Speaking of failures (WARNING: Rant Approaching), CHSAA has once again made covering the finish line nearly impossible for photographers. They continue to insist on having non essential personnel clogging the finish line. It is the most disorganized event I cover each year. I dread having to cover it. I know I’m not alone in this respect. (Rant over) Anyway here are a few select pictures from my remote along with some explanations.
More Fall Colors
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
Here’s a few more pictures I made in between assignments in Evergreen and Clear Creek County this week. Enjoy.
Fall Football Preview Portraits
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
About 6 months ago our sports editor, Michael Hicks, came to me with an idea for the fall. He wanted to put together a multi-page, pull out section filled with previews for the fall high school football season. I was immediately on board. It has been a long time since we had tackled anything this big. Newspapers with a circulation size as small as ours do not get to work on projects like this often. As everyone is well aware, the newspaper business is a little unstable right now. With that instability comes budget cuts and physical page count and size reductions. Getting a full color, multi-page section is a difficult pill to swallow for most publishers, especially if there is a lack of committed advertising to offset the cost.
Wildfires, Structure Fires and Pipe Bombs
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
What a week! In the span of 3 days I covered a bomb found in a mall, a wildfire and a structure fire. My job is never boring that is for sure. Here’s a collection of pictures from the chaos. The photo above and the following 2 are from the Myers Gulch house fire.
A Couple From Sports Assignments Last Week
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
Its been a busy weekend with several wildfires (I’ll have an upcoming post about covering that in the future) and lots of scheduling conflicts. I am also in the middle of moving to much cheaper living arrangements due to the rising cost of, well, everything lately. So anyway, I apologize for the lack of my regularly scheduled updates. Here’s a couple from sports assignments last week.
Favorite Basketball Photos From the 2010/2011 Season
© Matthew Jonas 2011/Evergreen Newspapers 2011
Basketball season has come to an end. All of the teams we cover have been eliminated from the playoffs. It was a long season. I must have shot 30 games this year. Out of those 30 games only a couple of them were not lit. My light kit (blogged about here) worked great for most assignments. Every year my timing gets better and I enjoy the challenge of lighting different gyms more and more. I have selected a few of my favorite pictures from this season. You can see a few more over at my sportsshooter.com member page here. Thanks for looking.
