Hoops- On the Road in the SEC...
posted by Gameshots, 2/16/2009 04:21:00 PM
SEC Road trips for basketball are always important and usually memorable. Pictured above is Devan Downey hitting the game winning shot while being closely guarded by Jodie Meeks (23). To go into Rupp Arena and come out a few hours later with a victory is not something that many visiting teams get to experience. Recently we've been to Knoxville, Lexington, Gainesville, and Tuscaloosa and every trip has been memorable.
The drive to Lexington, although through steady snow flurries, was smooth with no traffic situations encountered. The entire region of central and northern Kentucky (as well as elsewhere!) had just experienced the worst ice storm since the bad one of 2003. There were hundreds of thousands of people without power and some remained without power a week later.
The next morning, I was out before dawn to take a few pictures in the horse country. The temperature was between 6 and 8 degrees, the sky was clear, the wind was calm and ground fog was everywhere. These were perfect conditions for some winter-time pictures!
A barn at sunrise with ice on everything including the fences and trees.
A few horses waiting for some hay to be brought to the field.
This horse is outside the WKYT-TV, channel 27 offices in Lexington. The icicle from the chin helped create an unusual photo.
They say the best time for landscape photography is within thirty minutes of sunrise or sunset. This is for a variety of reasons, none of the least being the great lighting at that time of day. This day combined so many good elements of landscape photography it made a "can't miss" type of morning: Sunrise, fog, cold temperatures, snow, and ice.
This man was out for his Saturday morning jog that began with temperatures around zero and had now warmed up to seven degrees. I got a few directions from him as far as what roads were still bad and which route would work best and he kindly consented to having his picture taken. His breath had frozen on his features and clothing but he was enjoying the morning.
Garnet Army invades Alabama...
These pictures were taken at the Alabama Game. Cameras often do not handle light as well as the human eye does. However, with good software you can do some interesting things with light in a photo. Note in this picture the four members of the Garnet Army directly above Devan Downey as he shoots his free throw. I enhanced the light for the photo (in an oval pattern) to brighten the dark area of the coliseum for better visibility.
In this picture the Garnet Army was directly above the hands of Evaldas Baniulis as he shot the free throw. The students were standing and active for the entire game. I enhanced the light for this photo (in a rectangular pattern) to brighten the dark area of the coliseum to make them more visible.
Every free throw was done exactly as if it have been in the Colonial Life Arena.
When the free throws were made, the routine/reaction was done EXACTLY as if they had been standing in the Colonial Life Arena.
Since the lighting was so poor, away from the court, I ventured up for a closer photo. To me, the short trip up the stairs was worth the effort.
Driving in winter weather can always be a memorable experience.
The drive to Lexington was in the snow flurries, no problem, rather pretty. The drive home after the Knoxville game with freezing mist and flurries, as we came through the mountains was a bit more adrenaline rush. The drive to Gainesville, Florida, where it took over a half hour to drive through downtown Gainesville, as the sign 'Do Not Block the Intersection' meant absolutely NOTHING to the local drivers. Then this week I set a personal record, as we drove to Tuscaloosa, when it took over three and a half hours to get through the Atlanta area with various wrecks on the Interstates. Coming back from Tuscaloosa, after the game, we encountered DENSE fog between midnight and 1:30 in the morning.
This week, the next stop on our current tour of the southeast begins early Wednesday morning as we head to Starkville, MS.
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Hoops- On the Road in the SEC...
SEC Road trips for basketball are always important and usually memorable. Pictured above is Devan Downey hitting the game winning shot while being closely guarded by Jodie Meeks (23). To go into Rupp Arena and come out a few hours later with a victory is not something that many visiting teams get to experience. Recently we've been to Knoxville, Lexington, Gainesville, and Tuscaloosa and every trip has been memorable.
The drive to Lexington, although through steady snow flurries, was smooth with no traffic situations encountered. The entire region of central and northern Kentucky (as well as elsewhere!) had just experienced the worst ice storm since the bad one of 2003. There were hundreds of thousands of people without power and some remained without power a week later.
The next morning, I was out before dawn to take a few pictures in the horse country. The temperature was between 6 and 8 degrees, the sky was clear, the wind was calm and ground fog was everywhere. These were perfect conditions for some winter-time pictures!
A barn at sunrise with ice on everything including the fences and trees.
A few horses waiting for some hay to be brought to the field.
This horse is outside the WKYT-TV, channel 27 offices in Lexington. The icicle from the chin helped create an unusual photo.
They say the best time for landscape photography is within thirty minutes of sunrise or sunset. This is for a variety of reasons, none of the least being the great lighting at that time of day. This day combined so many good elements of landscape photography it made a "can't miss" type of morning: Sunrise, fog, cold temperatures, snow, and ice.
This man was out for his Saturday morning jog that began with temperatures around zero and had now warmed up to seven degrees. I got a few directions from him as far as what roads were still bad and which route would work best and he kindly consented to having his picture taken. His breath had frozen on his features and clothing but he was enjoying the morning.
Garnet Army invades Alabama...
These pictures were taken at the Alabama Game. Cameras often do not handle light as well as the human eye does. However, with good software you can do some interesting things with light in a photo. Note in this picture the four members of the Garnet Army directly above Devan Downey as he shoots his free throw. I enhanced the light for the photo (in an oval pattern) to brighten the dark area of the coliseum for better visibility.
In this picture the Garnet Army was directly above the hands of Evaldas Baniulis as he shot the free throw. The students were standing and active for the entire game. I enhanced the light for this photo (in a rectangular pattern) to brighten the dark area of the coliseum to make them more visible.
Every free throw was done exactly as if it have been in the Colonial Life Arena.
When the free throws were made, the routine/reaction was done EXACTLY as if they had been standing in the Colonial Life Arena.
Since the lighting was so poor, away from the court, I ventured up for a closer photo. To me, the short trip up the stairs was worth the effort.
Driving in winter weather can always be a memorable experience.
The drive to Lexington was in the snow flurries, no problem, rather pretty. The drive home after the Knoxville game with freezing mist and flurries, as we came through the mountains was a bit more adrenaline rush. The drive to Gainesville, Florida, where it took over a half hour to drive through downtown Gainesville, as the sign 'Do Not Block the Intersection' meant absolutely NOTHING to the local drivers. Then this week I set a personal record, as we drove to Tuscaloosa, when it took over three and a half hours to get through the Atlanta area with various wrecks on the Interstates. Coming back from Tuscaloosa, after the game, we encountered DENSE fog between midnight and 1:30 in the morning.
This week, the next stop on our current tour of the southeast begins early Wednesday morning as we head to Starkville, MS.
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Paul Collins. Paul has been a GamecockCentral photographer since 2005, with a focus on Gamecock football, men's basketball and baseball. He may be reached by email at paul(at)gamecockcentral.com. Replace (at) with @.