College Basketball Season--editorial coverage

Since the University of Washington Huskies played the Georgetown Hoyas today, I thought I would begin a series that features a shoot fro October that features three Husky guards: Venoy Overton (Senior), Isaiah Thomas (freshman-phenom-turned-Sophomore), and Abdul Gaddy (true Freshman). The editorial piece (written by Todd Dybas, now of the SeattlePI.com) and cover adorned the November issue (College Basketball Special) of Sports Northwest Magazine.

Back in June, I started to shoot editorial coverage, portraits, and story pieces for Sports Northwest Magazine--a local sports rag. Unfortunately, SNM has stopped providing coverage...and with it, the Seattle metro area lost another media outlet.

(Ironically enough, the editorial outlets with access to the local events seem content to use the "Googles and Amazon.coms" of the world--press-wire, the associated press, and Getty-- for images. It is an interesting lesson in economics with the "fallen" using the very tools that were their destruction, yet still touting the necessity to support LOCAL outlets.)

But, I digress.

Since a select few images get published, despite the tremendous amount of effort that goes into editorial sports coverage, I want to run a series of entries and present images I enjoyed. In particular, I will try to share the "idea" behind the image and the art--since most editorial outlets do not like to publish images that attempt to step outside traditional editorial coverage (a trend that I hope changes RAPIDLY...Sport Illustrated and ESPN The Mag are leading the charge).

to be continued...