Sunday, April 10, 2011

Orange & Blue Debut - 2011

All the people in D.C. looked at me funny when I said I was going to Florida to see a spring football game, but it was totally worth it. I, along with Gator Nation, have been waiting four months to see what the Gators would look like under new Head Coach Will Muschamp and Charlie Weis at OC. The offense was kind of disappointing, but it is a new system, and the defensive line and linebackers are absolute beasts. 

I went to the game with Pabst and Proemsey. It was at noon and so hot. I was pretty pumped to see that they busted out the Orange jerseys for the Orange defense. I was taking photos basically the whole time and I got a ton of great pics. We got really good seats about tens rows back. I was looking at the photos they had on Gatorsports.com, and mine were better even though I was in the stands and their guy was on the field. I should just move to O-G'ville and be a sports photographer.

At half-time, they unveiled the Heisman winner statues of Steve Spurrier, Danny Weurffel and Tim Tebow outside the stadium. Then, in the second half they played mostly backups on offense, so it was mostly dominated by the defense. I had a great time though, and after the game we checked out the statues. After the game we got food and rested ourselves before going out hard, or as Primz would say, "Doin' what real Gees do!" and I invented a new drink... the 22 oz. Zipperhead, and I am suffering today because of it.

There are a lot of pics in this post because I like so many of them. I took a couple hundred all together, so paring it down was kind of hard to do. These are probably my favorite photos that I have taken, so enjoy.







































Back in Florida

I flew down to Florida on Thursday for the Gators' Spring football game on Saturday. CP picked me up from the airport in Jacksonville and we ate lunch at some seafood place he saw on t.v. or something. It was pretty good, and if it was up to me, we would have hung out a bit longer after eating to take some more photos, but I don't like holding people up with it all. So, after getting a few shots in, we headed to Gainesville, made some steaks and headed to The Salty Dog.

Friday morning and fighting a hangover, I headed over to campus and took some photos. It was about 90 degrees and I was sweating like crazy. I made my way around the stadium, down to Turlington and Century Tower and the French Fries. It was nice to walk around campus, but it really made me miss college.











Friday, April 1, 2011

Tidal Basin

Wednesday, I got off work early and headed over to the Tidal Basin to get a look at the cherry blossoms before the rain moved in and mess all the trees up. The weather was not ideal. I wish it was more sunny, but what can you do.