aka “March Madness…”Before I could even turn around and catch my breath after last weekend’s work, which began Friday night in
helping out a colleague retrieve strobes from a local college gym after his two games, I found myself right in the middle of the craziness at this level of HS playoff basketball competition. I must’ve photographed 7 or 8 games in 5 days at two different college gyms and had a part in two other games, as I’d installed strobes in the gym at 8AM last Sunday morning. I won’t even get into utilizing a remote camera mounted in the stands for a games this week too. (That’ll be a separate post to follow here later in the playoff rounds.) Let’s just look at some of my favorites from games this past week, beginning last Saturday thru Tuesday night. All the games where shot with arena strobes, which to me, the viewers, players, coaches & sports officials seem to really appreciate. That sure means a lot to me, and justifies all the extra preparation time in climbing ladders, reaching around dusty and dirty pipes and rafters in these gyms to run electrical extension cords, and the physicality itself in just hauling in all the gear and installing the hardware to support the strobes and remote camera(s)… It is all quietly getting me mentally prepared should one of our local teams make it to the State Semi-Finals and Finals again up in Glens Falls, NY in another week or two. Here’s my edited take of HS playoff basketball so far this week. Stay tuned for coverage of two state quarterfinals games at West Point on Saturday. Enjoy. ~cg.
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Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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