Time Machine Wednesdays...I mean Way Back Wednesdays

Last week I started Time Machine Wednesdays in which I would go back in my archive and find a picture from waaaaaaayyyyyy back in the early days of my illustrious photography career. In the 8 days since I've unfurled this guaranteed rating increasing series, I've already made two mistakes. One is that Time Machine Wednesdays lacks the alliteration needed for this to be remotely successful. The other mistake: today is Thursday. So I will attempt to fix both problems by now calling it Way Back Wednesdays and dating this entry as if I posted it yesterday. Enjoy!

This is the photo that started my foray into sports documentary work and my infatuation with Coolidge High School. On August 15, 2006, I took this picture in the Coolidge locker room. The previous day, I talked with then head coach Jason Lane about a photo project I wanted to do that involved documenting the team throughout the season. I showed up about 10 minutes late after getting lost and the first thing he said was, "I knew you were coming but I didn't know you were going to be 15." The gift and the curse of the baby face. I was actually 23 at the time and didn't know I would spend the next 4 football seasons at 6315 5th St. NW.

Shout out to (l-r) Greg "G-Dot" Bagley, Kobi Williams, Wayne Ouzts (sitting) and Alfred Williams.

Time Machine Wednesdays

Every Wednesday, I'll reach way back into my archive to find an image or two to share. This new blog post series is made possible after I finally took the hard drives out of my old desktop computer and breathed some new life into them using a couple of slick, new hard drive enclosures. After struggling past the idea of dynamic and basic disks, the old drives (and images) are up and running.

First up is a portrait of SB taken on April 6, 2008. I rented a 24mm tilt-shift lens from Penn Camera and we wandered around Cardozo High School stopping at a few places to shoot some frames. This shot was taken on the steps of Harrison Elementary School in NW Washington DC. We were originally shooting some stuff for his website, but sadly these images never got used. Shout out to David Burnett, he does the tilt-shift thing pretty well.