Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Michigan at Stanford, 26 March 2013 (NCAA round 2)

Scott Uyeno

Scott posted 53 shots to this Flickr set, mostly action like this of Mikaela splitting a pair of defenders,

..or this, of Chiney in the same fix:

Michael Li

Michael, shooting from just behind the visitor's bench, couldn't get much action but posted a dozen shots to a Flicker set including this one of Kim Barnes Arico trying to keep morale up:

Looking down-court in the second half, he did catch Jos shooting one of her five threes:

David Cortesi

We shot the first half from the loges, then in the second half moved to vacant seats behind the Stanford bench, and got a few shots to put in a Smugmug gallery of which the most fun is this:

Jos has just shot her second trey (note the elegant flip of the wrist) but the faces along the Michigan bench behind her are just priceless.

Baranduin Briggs

Despite a cold Baranduin posted 71 pics to a Smugmug gallery, including several shots of hero-of-the-night Jos Tinkle in action, like this:

Between that one the following, there are several pictures of E. Payne being her delightfully manic self, but we'll close with:

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tulsa at Stanford 24 March 2013 (NCAA round 1)

Michael Li

Michael has a typical photographer's grump, "I shot 8 for 49. That's 16 percent." (That's about normal in our experience.) He posts the 8 shots he likes to a Flickr set including this one of a rebound:

The set also includes a great shot of "Captain 'Cane" the Tulsa mascot.

Scott Uyeno

Scott somehow kept his regular-season seat for this NCAA game (who did you bribe, Scott?) and despite complaining of brighter light at Maples throwing his exposure off, posted 47 pics to this Flickr set including this one of Chiney at work:

and lots more good action like this of Amber getting a held-ball:

Baranduin Briggs

Continuing the theme of photographers carping, Baranduin says that in a rush to get to the game, she grabbed the wrong camera, a Panasonic instead of her usual Nikon, so the pictures are maybe not up to the usual standard. What do you think? The Smugmug Gallery contains a lot of shots that show the intensity of this game, like this of Mikaela securing a rebound:

and you gotta love this of Chiney receiving a foul call:

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Baranduin's Pics of the Pac-12 Tournament

Well, the PAC-12 tournament is history. Ancient history, as online sports journalism measures time. I took a camera to every game but didn't have a good angle and mostly just watched. So other than the day-1 pics in the previous post, I got nothin'. Well, some nice shots of the Chihuly glass and such, but nothin' basketball-wise except the day-4 pregame and postgame shots later.

Baranduin Briggs was there, sitting almost at floor level, although with "large-headed" people in front of her. She put together galleries of the four days as follows.

Briggs, Day 1

For day one, Baranduin practiced her action shots and got some nice under-the-basket shots from all four games, but also gave a lot of attention to the mascots, the fans, and cheerleaders. All this in a Smugmug Gallery with action like this,

And other stuff:

Briggs, Day 2

Day two, and first up was a session that included a Cal/USC game. Pics of that game in this here Smugmug gallery including this of a soaring Brittney Boyd.

With players like that, you'd think they'd never lose, right? OK, buckle down; there's a Stanford game to play! Baranduin put shots of that and the following Colorado/UW game in a this Smugmug Gallery. It includes Stanford action like this,

And CO/UW action like this:

Briggs, Day 3

Semifinal day, and Baranduin put pics of both games into this Smugmug gallery. The first includes action shots of the Cal/UCLA debacle,

Followed by pics of the Stanford/Colorado game, like:

Briggs, Championship Game

Baranduin put her pics of the championship game and after in this Smugmug gallery with action shots like this, which pretty well sums up the day Chiney had:

And a little post-game whoop-te-doo:

Cortesi, Championship Day

Our smugmug gallery of pre-game and post-game pics has already been linked from Marian's story of the game. It includes this of Mikaela, who had just fouled out, greeting Jos at the end of the game:

And that was the tournament, pretty much.

Friday, March 8, 2013

PAC-12 Tournament Day 1

David Cortesi

We put 13 shots from inside and outside the first day of the tournament in this Smugmug gallery including the Space Needle, cute kid on a fountain, a dunk exhibition, and this of Michelle Plouffe finishing a breakaway: