Alex the Photo Blog

Yes, sadly it says “2009″ above.  I made the dumb mistake of passing up 2010 Masters practice round tickets because I couldn’t find anyone to drive out there with.  In retrospect, I should have made the drive by myself and met up with my parents who were livin’ it up in the IBM cottage with free food and drinks…  I know.  Dumb.

However, I do have some photos to show you.  Because I didn’t have the blog up and running this time last year, I figure I can share some of the photos I took from the 2009 Masters’ practice round.  As you may know, the practice rounds are the only days where they let anyone in with a camera (but still no cell phones).  There’s no real competition that happens other than a few side bets I’m sure, but all the players have a good time hanging out with each other and generally interact more with the crowd.

I guess the Masters crew is also a little more relaxed during the practice rounds as well… and as always- click on the pictures to expand them.

As part of the “crowd interaction” players often attempy to skip the ball across the water on #16.

“Do we really need to keep score during practice rounds?” 

I couldn’t tell if the make on this lawnmower said Gillette or Norelco:

Nothing ground breaking here, just wanted to post some of my favorite photos from 4th of July weekend in Bowling Green KY.  It’s late, I know, but I want the world (or my 3 friends) to see them. 

These are from the world famous Corvette Museum.  AKA: The only thing in Bowling Green, KY.

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Scott Kelby has a pretty fun photo contest up on his blog.  Basically, enter your best sports photo and if you’re chosen, he’ll fly you to an FSU football game, rent you nice lens, get you a media pass, and have you shoot side by side with professional sports photographer, Mike Olivella.

Sounds like fun to me.  Here’s my entry.  I shot it back in college when I worked for The Vanderbilt Hustler (student paper).  Didn’t have the money for digital, so I shot it on Fuji Neopan 1600 ISO film.  Worked well, even with the grain.  Click the photo to see it on flickr, then you can click here to see the rest of the entries.