Wow ... I should be in bed, but, alas, I must blog. Sometimes I feel like my brain cells go to the most creative corners of my mind when I am exhausted. When I most need sleep, they don't allow it. I'm generally a person who needs my eight hours a night, but I chugged 24 ounces of some energy drink and there's no stopping me now.
Covering a World Series is a lot of fun, to put it vaguely. I've covered other major sporting events in teams before but never for a newspaper. Working for a magazine, deadlines are usually a little looser, but with the newspaper it's all about quick turnaround. For those of you not wrapped up in the world of journalism, let me give you a couple of details about our coverage. We have five to six photographers covering each game. In addition, there are two to three editors on site to look at the images and select the ones to caption and send back to the newspaper. [To give you an idea, tonight we sent back 212 images of thousands that we reviewed.] At the newspaper an editor looks at the images and decides how and where to use these images in the paper, usually in conversation with the designer. Much work goes into what you see in the morning when you open your newspaper. Know and appreciate that.
Tonight Jerry, a fellow P-D editor, L.G. and I were some of the last to leave the stadium. The ushers actually had to ask us to leave. I've posted a couple of photos for fun. The first is L.G. crossing the street with his mighty lens. The second is a shot of Jerry during the editing madness. We all feel how Jerry looks in this frame :-) The third shot is me saying hello to all of you from the Bank of America box.
Tomorrow night, wait, I mean tonight could be the big night, the Cardinals just might do it. I'm going to have to fight this energy pulsing inside me and get some sleep. Tomorrow, ugggh, today will be a long day, but boy do I realize how lucky I am to be a part of it.
Covering a World Series is a lot of fun, to put it vaguely. I've covered other major sporting events in teams before but never for a newspaper. Working for a magazine, deadlines are usually a little looser, but with the newspaper it's all about quick turnaround. For those of you not wrapped up in the world of journalism, let me give you a couple of details about our coverage. We have five to six photographers covering each game. In addition, there are two to three editors on site to look at the images and select the ones to caption and send back to the newspaper. [To give you an idea, tonight we sent back 212 images of thousands that we reviewed.] At the newspaper an editor looks at the images and decides how and where to use these images in the paper, usually in conversation with the designer. Much work goes into what you see in the morning when you open your newspaper. Know and appreciate that.
Tonight Jerry, a fellow P-D editor, L.G. and I were some of the last to leave the stadium. The ushers actually had to ask us to leave. I've posted a couple of photos for fun. The first is L.G. crossing the street with his mighty lens. The second is a shot of Jerry during the editing madness. We all feel how Jerry looks in this frame :-) The third shot is me saying hello to all of you from the Bank of America box.
Tomorrow night, wait, I mean tonight could be the big night, the Cardinals just might do it. I'm going to have to fight this energy pulsing inside me and get some sleep. Tomorrow, ugggh, today will be a long day, but boy do I realize how lucky I am to be a part of it.
2 comments:
Hope you had a good time tonight. I read a story on stltoday that said the press box isn't heated/air conditioned??? I can't believe that... for a new stadium? Crazy.
You said: "Sometimes I feel like my brain cells go to the most creative corners of my mind when I am exhausted."
ME TOO!!!!!
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