See the full gallery here: http://store.justinacuff.com/g/maryville_vs_karns_2010_05_01

After shooting the South Doyle vs Farragut rugby match, I decided to stay for one more game.  This game was for the Conference Girls Cup Championship.  Both teams played real solid each half.  In the end though, it was Maryville coming away with the 13-10 victory over Karns.

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See the full gallery here: http://store.justinacuff.com/g/karns_vs_bearden_2010_04_29

Thursday night was a special throwback night at Farragut High School. I was assigned to cover both games in the double header.  The first game was Karns vs Bearden and the second game was Oak Ridge vs Farragut.  Popcorn, soft drinks, and hot dogs were only 50 cents. The teams all wore old-timey uniforms and used wooden bats.  This gave me one of my first opportunities to capture a broken bat at the high school level. During each of the games, there was also a silent auction to benefit the National Parkinson Foundation.  Karns won the first game 7-1.

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See the full gallery here: http://store.justinacuff.com/g/karns_vs_powell_2010_04_06

If you are a subscriber to the RSS feed of this blog, you may have noticed over the past few weeks the images were being resized to 50×50 pixels.  I had installed a plugin called WPTouch which is supposed to make the blog more accessible via devices such as the iPhone, Blackberry, and Droid but it was messing with more things than it should have. Now the thumbnails should be back to their old standard size of 300×200.

Tuesday I wanted to get out and shoot some softball. I looked on the schedule and saw Powell was hosting Karns.  I hadn’t shot any softball yet so it would be a good opportunity for me to practice before I got assigned to shoot a softball game.  Living in Powell, this is also a very convenient school to cover.  Both Powell and Karns are in the coverage area of the paper I shoot for, but usually another photographer gets assigned to them while I primarily get assigned to cover the West Knoxville schools.  Covering softball is kind of like covering baseball, but on a smaller field.  This also affords photographers that may not have much reach via their 70-200mm lens a chance to shot pretty tight with minimal cropping afterwords.

I normally like to shoot a few innings behind the backstop near home plate.  Powell’s field didn’t really allow that so I spent most of my time near the end of each dugout.  I didn’t stay very long, mostly because I was mainly interested in getting some practice in and had some other things I needed to take of that night as well. Powell ended up with the 1-0 win over Karns. Here just a few photos from that game.

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As of late, I’ve been doing a lot of sports photography but I haven’t done any blogging about it. (Shame on me!)  Quite a few have figured out the link to my sports galleries at http://store.justinacuff.com/g/sports.  Back in August of 2009, I was very fortunate to get offered to be a stringer doing Sports Photography for the Shopper-News primarily covering the West Knoxville area schools. Instead of trying to blog about each game way after the fact, I’ve decided to select a few images to display here and link over to my store for proofs.

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If you are looking for an individual game, please click below.
Dobyns-Bennet High School vs Farragut High School (2009-08-21)
West High School vs Hardin Valley Academy (2009-08-28)
Karns High School vs Clinton High School (2009-09-04)
Grace Christian Academy vs Gibbs High School (2009-09-11)
Farragut High School vs West High School (2009-09-18)
Knoxville Catholic High School vs Webb School of Knoxville (2009-09-25)
Heritage High School vs Farragut High School (2009-10-02)
West High School vs Knoxville Catholic High School (2009-10-16)
Bearden High School vs West High School (2009-10-22)
Powell High School vs Central High School (2009-10-23)
Alcoa High School vs Christian Academy of Knoxville (2009-10-30)
McMinn Central High School vs Christian Academy of Knoxville (2009-11-06)
Bearden High School vs Farragut High School (2009-11-13)
Farragut High School vs Maryville High School (2009-11-20)