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Prop 8 Rally
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
keith johnson. Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
keith johnson. Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
kim farah, lds spokesperson. Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
kim farah, lds spokesperson. Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons.
kim farah, lds spokesperson. Salt Lake City – Mormons against the LDS Church’s active involvement in support of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in CA) delivered letters and a petition in opposition to church actions to the LDS Church Office Building Friday, October 17, 2008. The crowd included Peter and Mary Danzig, who resigned their church membership after facing discipline for writing a letter to the editor; Andrew Callahan, who faces excommunication for his opposition to Prop. 8; and members of Affirmation, a support group for gay and lesbian Mormons. -
Warren Jeffs turns into Bat Boy
Just sitting in my office scanning the news tonight, and what did I see? It wasn’t the amazing story in the Weekly World News that caught my attention (Bat Boy Sues Batman in Paternity Suit). It was the photograph. Never thought I would see a pool photo from the trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs used in the Weekly World News, and definitely never imagined that they would PhotoShop Bat Boy’s head onto the FLDS prophet’s body. That’s my photo on the right of a similar moment from inside the courthouse. If you don’t know who Bat Boy is, you haven’t been reading the Weekly World News, the nation’s #1 newspaper dedicated to stories about aliens, Bigfoot, and the famous Bat Boy.
While the story is comic fiction, the last line could just as well have been written about Jeffs’ defense attorney Wally Bugden. It reads:
When asked to comment, the defense attorney simply furrowed his brow, shook his head and walked away.
You can see the article here at the Weekly World News site. It will make you register to see the Bat Boy story, but it’s free. -
Final Fight! – Layton vs. Davis
When you’re going to write about photographing a high school football game AND the 1989 arcade game Final Fight, where to start? Obviously, with Final Fight. Here’s the plot as it appears on Wikipedia (with my favorite parts in bold): Final Fight is set in the fictional American city of Metro City “sometime in the 1990s”. The story centers around the kidnapping of the Mayor’s daughter, Jessica, by the dominant street gang in the city known as the Mad Gear Gang, which seeks to bring the Mayor under their control. The Mayor, a former pro wrestler named Mike Haggar, refuses to give in to the gang’s demands and sets out to rescue his daughter with the help of her boyfriend, a martial artist named Cody, and his friend, a modern-day Bushin ninja named Guy.It’s a common videogame premise, where you select from the characters you want to play. Each has a strength and a weakness. There is the ultra-fast guy who can’t take a punch. There’s the all-around average player. And there’s the big heavy dude who is super strong but super slow. In Final Fight, the fast and skinny is Guy, Cody is the average, and Haggar is the big slow brawler. For far too long I’ve been playing Final Fight as the former pro-wrestler Haggar and too often I’ve also been showing up to shoot football games as Haggar, loaded down with three cameras and all the weight that entails. It’s been an effective strategy with a lot of great photographs, but I felt it was time for a change. So for this game I selected Guy and went the light-weight approach, carrying just two cameras. On one I mounted the smaller and lighter 300/2.8 and the other camera had a 16-35 wide angle. I went without a monopod and made sure to down a large Coke and a couple of candy bars for even more extra speed.
While the 300 didn’t give me the same reach as the 400 I usually would use, I stayed close to the action, mostly shooting within ten yards of the line of scrimmage.
Above: Davis’ Troy Hinds celebrates sacking Layton QB Camren Applegate.
My biggest technical hurdle was the dark, horrendous lighting. Just look at those weak lights! And it varied all over the field; every third frame had a horrible reddish hue. I switched to shooting RAW for the second half when it got dark just so I’d be able to correct the color shifts. Still, it was very dark and for a while I played with the artistry of a slower shutter speed. That was a mistake when Davis made this touchdown:
The 300 worked well throughout. While its reach wasn’t as tight as I’m used to with the 400, there’s not much you can do with either lens when the action takes off clear across the field. Shooting loose can sometimes add to the shot, like this touchdown where the marching band adds a nice detail:
But back to Final Fight, here’s the description of Guy (again from the Final Fight page on Wikipedia): Guy is the fastest, yet weakest member of the group, in which he can unleash fast punches against his opponents and use an off-the-wall kick to knock them down. So true. When Kimble Jensen made the a late interception to seal the win for Layton, I was right up close and in place for the shot. Call this one my very own off-the-wall kick to knock them down:
Full Disclosure: For almost twenty years I’ve played Final Fight as Haggar and I probably won’t change, so Alex… you’ll still have to play as Cody.
