There was a training event today for firefighters in Gwinnett County.  They learned emergency rescue tricks for when a fellow firefighter is down from firefighters from the FDNY.
They let me get as close as I wanted since no real fire was involved.

Gwinnett and Marietta firefighters pull a rope to safely lower a dummy firefighter from [...]

More lit high school women’s basketball action for you all.  This time between Norcross High School and Mill Creek High School.

Generally it helps to jump for the ball when rebounding.

We’ve been doing some end of year portraits for the various high school sports. Two of them are in today’s paper, here is the second.
Amberlie Saxton plays at Mill Creek High School and was part of the state championship winning team this year.

Mill Creek senior Amberlie Saxton was named softball player of the year.  [...]

We’ve been doing some end of year portraits for the various high school sports.  Two of them are in today’s paper, here is the first.
Funny side note, it always makes me hesitant when i get to an assignment and one of the first things the person says to me is, “were you the person who [...]

Better late than never, this week’s installment of the 2 Minute Drill. This week it was with Ryan Robinson of Mill Creek High School.

Final game of softball of the week was Mill Creek vs Peachtree Ridge.

I really like the expression on this one.

Here are some photos I took today at the Mill Creek and North Gwinnett softball game.  The light was great because the sun was getting ready to set so everything had a nice golden tone.  Also, I seemed to always be in a good spot to capture the missed catches and dropped balls.

North Gwinnett’s Sammie [...]

Got back from my first assignment today and was told my second assignment was happening in 30 minutes and once there I’d have a 15 minute window before the player had to leave to get to her game at another school.
On the way over to Mill Creek I quickly brainstormed some portrait ideas in my [...]

The Mill Creek United Methodist Church will be performing in the Verizon “How Sweet the Sound” Choir Competition in the near future.  The paper wrote a story that ran today about it so they had me go out earlier in the week and get photos of them practicing.
I wanted to get something different than the [...]

If anyone ever asks you if there is a castle in Gwinnett, you can say, “Yes, indeed there is.”
Last night I covered two high school football games that both started at the same time.  I shot the first quarter at one, then headed to the other and shot the rest of the game.
These are from [...]