Spot News Inspiration

For this Spot New inspiration, I took something that I am very interested in and did a feature about sports. My inspiration was the NFL Scouting Combine. I have been following it a little bit and I have been looking through all of the pictures. All of the pictures that I have seen have been amazing action shots. They totally freeze time and movement. The website shows all of the pictures from the course of the Combine. For people who are not familiar with football or sports, the NFL Scouting Combine is an event in which college level football players go through a series of tests, physical and mental, and they are scouted by National Football League coaches. They do strength and conditioning tests, as well as mental and drug testing. All of their statistics are taken so coaches can evaluate them and see if they would like to draft the college players to their professional team. I am an avid football fan, so this is always something I look forward to each spring.I love the pictures that were taken because they stop time. Some of the best pictures stop the players in mid aid, and everything about them is frozen. Those are my favorite kinds of pictures. So for my Spot News Feature I chose to photograph a sporting event. I shot the Cazenovia Men's Basketball game and Senior Night against Morrisville State College on Friday, February 20th.

Here is the link to the NFL Scouting Combine Photo Gallery
http://www.nfl.com/photos?eventseason=-1&event=combine

Human Interest

Outside of the Cafe at Cazenovia College, you find the Environmental Club selling Survival Bracelets. These bracelets can be used in a variety of ways including a make shift sling or splint, a tourniquet or fishing line. For a small price you can buy a survival bracelet, and it could even save your life one day.

The Cazenovia Women's Basketball Team takes part in a lot of community service events, and on Sunday February 15th they had a troop of girl scouts come to the Gym. The team talked about healthy eating habbits, and how staying active will have a positive impact on your life. The girl scouts and players decorated paper jerseys with their names and numbers.

Are you a trivia fiend? The Shove Hall Resident Advisers held a trivia night on Thursday February 12th in the Shove Lounge. Students living in Shove came down to the lounge to participate in the fun with the chance to win some great prizes. The RA's set up events like this every week, to give the students that live on campus something to do at night when their brains are fried from studying or if they are bored out of their minds.

The Girl Scouts came to the gym with the Cazenovia Women' Basketball team on Sunday, February 15th. The players and the girls played with the basketballs, shooting around and passing back and fourth. One lucky girl scout had the help of three of the players and she was able to achieve her goal of dunking a basketball.

Human Interest Inspiration

I found this web site called The Travel World, and they have a section all about human interest photography and journalism. This site showed all types of places and events that were photographed in a human interest perspective. These pictures were taken from all over the world. That is one of the other reasons I liked this page so much, I love to travel and someday hope to travel the world. I love taking pictures and would love to travel and take pictures at the same time. Some of the categories that are shown on this website are great, and they range from health to children to poverty, markets and museums. A link to the site can be found directly below. http://www.thetravelword.com/human-interest/