This weekend I photographed a college football game–Missouri Tigers versus the Furman Paladins–along with John Schreiber, for the Columbia Missourian.  It was only my third or fourth time photographing football, and my first college game, so it was a little different.  I was also using a Canon 600mm f/4 L IS lens from CPS, which made things extra different.  But it was a lot of fun, and there’s a web gallery here.

While at the game, I was assigned to get a feature photo of the crew of “Big Mo,” an over-sized drum on a trike that is used to lead cheers of “MIZ–ZOU” at the games, as well as run up and down the end zone with the cheerleaders after a touch down.  At the end of the game, David Champlin started dancing with the Golden Girls, who are a more “sparkly” version of the cheerleaders.  The result was the photo above.  Sadly, it will never find its way into the Missourian, so I’m posting it here for all to see.  I suppose it’s better this way.

Secondly, I thought I would post this portrait of Anthony Fitzgerald and Arnold Cromwell, two custodians–one from Hickman High School, the other from Rock Bridge High School–to be featured in this week’s VOX Magazine in the “On-The-Job” section.  I was happy with the final select, but also felt that the image  below worked fairly well.  I do wish I had some more time with them to get a moment between the two, but at the very least I feel that this was a respectful presentation of the two men.