"University of Denver Director of In-Event Production & Promotions Angel Field rides a tricycle during a test for a promotion in Magness Arena Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008."
I've been carrying around one of my cameras and a wide-angle lens everywhere I go hoping to make images, like the one above, that I usually never would have thought of. I should have been doing this a long time ago.
I love my job.
When I'm not making images or in class you can probably find me on the 4th floor of the Ritchie center working for Denver Sports Marketing. We work hard at preparing for and executing promotions run during Pioneer athletic events. However, it's not all work, we like to play too. The best part of my job is the people I work with. In addition to my boss Angel (above) and Alexis, manager of events, I work with an amazing group of students. Several of us have been working together since we were Freshman and now we have been training the underclassmen to take over in our places.
We all have fairly consistent schedules so we work with the same people in the office. I work a few days a week with Caressa, one of the freshman girls. Basically she's one of the funniest people I know and a complete riot. She'd probably kill me if I posted a picture of her so I'll refrain from doing so. She isn't that lucky in the office because I'm constantly snapping off frames of her. She secretly loves it, haha. We have a blast taking pictures, folding t-shirts, putting up posters, proofing scripts, filling the cheer bag, delivering flyers, writing new promotions, setting up the marketing table for Thursday afternoon women's basketball and laughing at each other for no particular reason.
Today was no different and purely comical. Even Angel got into the act by riding a tricycle around the office, down the elevator, past the varsity locker rooms and onto the basketball court to do a test run for a promotion that we did later that night at the Men's basketball game. They won by the way, seventh in a row at home and tied for first place in the division. The women also won in a OT thriller in the first game of the double header.
I worked the women's game and then shot the men's game, well the first half of it anyway. I went up to the press box to edit my take from the first half and got a little carried away talking to one of the photographers from the AP. I'm just a kid compared to the people who have been in the photojournalism industry for a while. I love to pick their brain when I can and learn as much as possible in hopes of getting to where they are today. Jack and I got to talking about the future, or lack there of, of the industry and what I could/should be doing to make a living in the currently struggling industry. I understand that it is going to be almost impossible to survive but I would rather make photos than sit at a computer with a 9-5.
If there is one thing that I'm confident about it is that I have a passion for making images. It doesn't matter if they are of Caressa having a dance party on the main concourse inside Magness or Tiger Woods draining a 65-footer to win the Masters. I can't wait to make images for a living...no matter what it takes.
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