We've been thinking about getting a dog for quite awhile, and this little girl just fits right in. Well, except for the fur. The mountains, and piles, and heaps of fur. She's a shepherd-husky mix and in the middle of dropping her winter coat. Holy cow our vacuum cleaner is getting a workout!! But how can you not love that face?? Her name is Rain, but Kelly and Molly have already re-christened her 'Weasel', which personally I like a lot better.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Defence in Depth
Great shot of just how stacked the defence (yes, I know I'm using a 'c' in defence, thank you firefox spellchecker!) can become during a penalty kill.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
So I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out!
Yeah, it's one of the most often discussed aspects of hockey--the fighting. At some point every year or two a big discussion comes up about banning fighting in the sport. If you ask me though, the sport would be lesser without the fights. I'm not trying to say that I like the violence or want to have the world thinking that everyone can solve their problems by beating each other up, but within the context of the sport, fighting must really be understood for what it is, and that's _part of the sport_. Very rarely will a hockey player fight because he's pissed off at another player (though that does happen). More often the fight happens to serve a very specific purpose--to send a message to the other team, to repay a cheap shot that the ref might have missed, or simply to fire up a team that's down and give them some spirit. No matter what the reason, the hockey fight is an integral part of the sport, and I love that though we have referees, they can't see everything at once and the sport still has this mechanism for self-policing.
About the photo: Another of Kelly's photos, this is Sebastian Geoffrion, grandson of Bernie Geoffrion, an NHL Hall of Famer who played with the Canadiens and Rangers for years. Check his story out on Wikipedia sometime, it's a really interesting read!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
New Faces
The Ice picked up a couple new players in the past week. Mike Cichy came to the Ice and made an immediate impact, picking up a couple goals in his first home game.
Thanks to a separated shoulder and a sick kid, John was stuck at home for this game, so all of the Jan 16 photos are courtesy of Kelly.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Happy New Year!
Yeah, speaking of Zac and his party, there's the man of the hour (and looking quite dapper in his new suit!).
New Year's Eve Party
After the hockey game at Conseco, Kelly and I changed into our party clothes and headed up to Zac's place to ring in 2009! This is at the stroke of midnight.
Max Attack
Okay, it's a cheesy post title, but hey, my coffee hasn't saturated my brain tissue yet! This is yet another of Kelly's shots, one of Max Cook trying a wraparound. He didn't score on this opportunity, but it was a great scoring chance.
Gwiddy-sticks
One of Kelly's photos, a shot of some of the players' sticks lined up in the hallway outside of the locker room.
'Fito
Chris Palifito, starting goalie, during the pre-game introductions. This is one of Kelly's 'signature' shots from Conseco.
New Year's Eve @ Conseco
I've always had a love/hate relationship with shooting Ice games in Conseco Fieldhouse. On one hand, the arena is first-class. Maybe not an NHL-caliber venue, but at least good enough for AHL or IHL. On the other hand, the place is just massive and there's no easy way to get around, so shooting a game there is three hours of climbing stairs and waiting for elevators and running down long underground tunnels.
Still, the lighting is superb once you're tied into the big strobes and have figured out where the fall-off areas are (the regular lights are surprisingly yellow), and as I said, the place is just beautiful.
This is a shot of Sebastian Geoffrion's first fight of the night. He ended up with two fights on the evening.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
OOF!!!
This, friends and neighbors, is why spearing is a 5-minute major penalty in the game of hockey!! :-)
Was in the box as usual last Friday night. Check comes over the boards and into the box with me, and I look down to see the blade of a hockey stick jamming me in the side. I had a split-second to think 'Oh man, that's going to bruise' and then the guys were pulling themselves back out of the box and were on their way.
This photo was taken three days later.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
A Noted Absence
It's a strange thing, how fluid time can be. Strange how it can slip through your fingers without your even really realizing it. Strange that your kids grow up so fast. Strange that your parents get old. Strange watching parents and friends die.
It's been a very weird few weeks, which at least partially explains my absenses from the blogging world. My father has been very ill for several months, and everyone in my family is coming to grips with the fact that his journey is nearly at an end. (Strange also that no matter how close someone is to death, we still grasp at euphemisms and metaphors for the actual final act to avoid actually talking about or saying the word 'death'.) We've all come to make our peace with the situation in different ways. My mom wants to see him no longer suffering through the constant surgeries, the growing weakness and mental instabilities. I want to remember him the way he was, independent and strong and seemingly all-knowing. My four-year-old daughter, Molly, wants to know that he'll be in heaven taking care of the baby we lost last year.
And just as we were preparing ourselves for this loss, and taking solace and comfort in our friends, we lost one of those friends. Mike Schupay, the president of the Indiana Ice and a good friend, passed away quite unexpectedly the day after Thanksgiving from a heart attack. He had handed Molly a hockey puck at the game on her birthday not even a week before.
So as you can certainly imagine, lately it's been a struggle just to get out of bed in the mornings and get moving for work. By the time I make it home it's even more of a struggle to take care of the usual household chores, much less anything extracurricular like blogging or getting the Christmas cards ready to send. I hope to improve on my productivity a bit in coming weeks…get caught up over the holiday break.
We'll see. In the meantime, keep my Dad in your thoughts, if you would. I'm going to miss him terribly.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Wayne's kiddo
Just had the opportunity to photograph my buddy Wayne's little girl. She's about 15 months old and cute as can be.
Thoughts and Ramblings
Well as usual I make all the promises to myself to keep up on both of my blogs, and of course it goes longer and longer between posts. I whine about how busy things are, and truly they are. On average I have about a half hour a day to do everything that needs to be done, after paying the bills and doing the laundry and processing the photos and finishing up stuff for the day job and... Well you get the idea; I'm sure nearly everyone out there is about in the same boat.
I'm still doing photography as much as I can, which isn't nearly as much as I'd like lately. Hockey games and the odd family portrait here and there are about it. I'm still loving being back in IT full time though, so it's just a trade off. I just wish there were about 37 hours in the day.
Anyway, as usual I hope to post more, if not commentary then at least photos piped through from Flickr. :-)
Peace out for now, all you good people!
I'm still doing photography as much as I can, which isn't nearly as much as I'd like lately. Hockey games and the odd family portrait here and there are about it. I'm still loving being back in IT full time though, so it's just a trade off. I just wish there were about 37 hours in the day.
Anyway, as usual I hope to post more, if not commentary then at least photos piped through from Flickr. :-)
Peace out for now, all you good people!
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