My 2024 Highlights - What a year!

2024 has been an incredible year for my photography. I continued covering sports for VivaLoudoun and the Loudoun Times weekly newspaper as well as yearbooks for high schools in the northern Virginia area. This keeps me so busy that the joke at my career job is that photography is really my full time job! Hmmm. Sometimes I think there is some truth to that.

There were many highlights throughout the year, but the top two are come from :

I covered the boys and girls Virginia High School League basketball state championship games and the University of Richmond. Shooting in a college arena is wonderful. My photo of the Woodgrove girls celebrating their championship win was the first page highlight for the Loudoun Times. The photo also appeared on the cover page a second time at the beginning of 2025 for the  paper's "Year in Photographs" paper. 

The Loudoun Times entered one of my photos in the Virginia Press Association photography contest and my photo of a winning touchdown catch was awarded first place sports news photo in their non-daily newspaper category!

I was hired to shoot the throwing events at the Atlantic 10 college track and field championships at George Mason University. It was a great experience despite the pouring rain throughout most of the weekend.

I was also hired for a soccer tournament and several individual games with the VA Revolution soccer club in Loudoun County.