2011 Spring Sports photo list

The spring sports season is at hand and if your scroll past my list of previous sports seasons you will find the galleries of games I've photographed in the spring of 2011.

For those who are looking for galleries from past seasons, here are those links.

Winter 2010-11

Fall 2010

Summer 2010

Spring 2010

Winter 2009-10

Below are the games that have been posted under the spring 2011 portion of my website www.coldhollowphoto.com. Games with an asterisk qualify for the 99 cent instant download (remember these are unedited images) or the $1.99 4x6s (which are edited before printing). Click here for more details.

H.S. Baseball

Stowe at Enosburg baseball, April 7, 2011*

Peoples at Fairfax baseball, April 19, 2011*

Champlain Valley at MVU baseball, April 22, 2011

Richford at Fairfax baseball, April 29, 2011*

Enosburg at Winooski Varsity baseball, May 7, 2011*

Lake Region at Winooski, May 14, 2011*

Stowe at Richford, Varsity baseball, May 17, 2011*

BFA-Fairfax at Winooski baseball, June 3, 2011*

Blue Mountain vs. Danville baseball final, June 10, 2011

Northfield vs. Fairfax, D-3 title game, June 10, 2011*

H.S. Softball

Stowe at Enosburg softball, April 7 2011*

Peoples at Fairfax Softball, April 19, 2011*

Champlain Valley at MVU softball, April 22, 2011

Richford at Fairfax baseball, April 29, 2011*

Stowe at Richford Varsity softball, May 17, 2011*

St. Johnsbury at BFA-St. Albans softball semis, June 7, 2011

Far Post soccer

U-14 Girls Premier at Golden Goal, April 9, 2011*

U-15 Boys Club at Golden Goal, April 11, 2011*

U-14 Girls Club at Golden Goal, April 10, 2011*

U-14 Boys Club at Golden Goal, April 10, 2011*

U-15 Girls Premier at Golden Goal, April 9, 2011*

U-12 Premier Girls at Golden Goal, April 9, 2011*

U-13 Girls at Golden Goal, April 9, 2011*

U-15 boys at Golden Goal, April 9, 2011*

Nordic Cup photos*

Track and Field

Track at Milton H.S. April 15, 2011*

Division II track and field championships, June 4, 2011*

Youth baseball

St. Albans Red Sox vs. Fairfax Red Sox, L.L. May 6, 2011*

Winooski at BFA-Fairfax, middle school, May 6, 2011*

Fall sports photo list

The following are the games that have been posted on my website www.coldhollowphoto.com. Games with an asterisk qualify for the 99 cent instant download (remember these are unedited images) or the $1.99 4x6s (which are edited before printing). Click here for more details.

To see the summer 2010 sports photo list click here. To see the 2010 spring sports photo list click here. To see the 2009-10 winter sports photo list click here.

Youth football

August 28 - Milton vs. Chittenden East 7/8 (Jamboree)*

August 28 - Milton vs. Fairfax, (Jamboree) 5/6*

August 28 - Fairfax vs. Milton Flag 2 (Jamboree)*

August 28 - Fairfax vs. Barre, 7/8 (Jamboree)*

August 28 - Fairfax vs. Winooski 7/8 (Jamboree)*

August 28 - Fairfax vs. Winooski 5/6 (Jamboree)*

Sept. 4 - Milton vs. Essex 5/6*

Sept. 4 - Fairfax vs. St. Albans 5/6*

Sept. 4 - Milton vs. Essex 7/8*

Sept. 4 - Fairfax vs. St. Albans 7/8*

Oct. 9 - Chittenden East at Milton, 7-8*

Oct. 9 - Burlington at Fairfax, 7/8*

Oct. 11 - Steelers at Milton Flag*

Oct. 23 - Steelers vs. Patriots 7/8 playoff game*

High School Football

Sept. 3 - Mount Anthony at BFA-St. Albans

Sept. 4 - Fair Haven at BFA-Fairfax*

Sept. 10 - Otter Valley at Milton

Oct. 15 - Rutland at BFA-St. Albans

Oct. 16 - Montpelier at BFA-Fairfax*

Oct. 22 - South Burlington at BFA-St. Albans

Oct. 23 - Springfield at BFA-Fairfax*

Oct. 29 - BFA-Fairfax at Winooski*

Nov. 5 - Rutland at BFA-St. Albans

Nov. 13 - Bellows Falls vs. Windsor - coming soon

Nov. 13 - BFA-St. Albans vs. Hartford

Nov. 13 - Rice vs. Middlebury

High School girls soccer

Sept. 10 - BFA-St. Albans at Milton

Oct. 9 - Richford at BFA-Fairfax*

Oct. 12 - Enosburg at BFA-St. Albans*

Oct. 22 - Lake Region at BFA-Fairfax*

Oct. 27 - Enosburg at Hazen*

Nov. 3 - BFA-Fairfax at Stowe*

Volleyball

Oct. 15 - Vt. Commons at Enosburg*

High School boys soccer

Oct. 19 - Middlebury at Missisquoi

Oct. 21 - Richford at Enosburg*

Oct. 23 - Winooski at BFA-Fairfax*

Oct. 29 - BFA-Fairfax at Winooski*

Nov. 2 - BFA-Fairfax at Peoples*

Nov. 9 - BFA-Fairfax vs. Leland and Gray*

If you would like to be notified when these are posted, please email me: shawn@coldhollowphoto.com or leave me a comment at the bottom of the post with your email address. Thanks!

99 cent downloads now available for select folks

As my business has continued to grow, I've been trying how to find a way to reward those teams, schools and leagues that hire me to do their sports photography.

I think I may have found a way.

Starting immediately, any photos I take for any league, school or team that hires for their posed photography business will be able to instantly download any action image from any games they play or just 99 cents. Also, I've dropped the cost of 4x6s by a buck and I am offering CDs of all the images I take of any one player in any one season for just $34.99, plus tax.

I also can do photo collage posters for $49.99. Shoot me an email - shawn@coldhollowphoto.com - if you have any interest in these unique gifts.

A couple of logistical things: I no longer edit photos before I upload them. Wish I could, but I'm far too busy at this point.

If you download an image, it will not be cropped or edited. You will have to do that once you get it. If you order a print or a CD, those images will be professionally cropped and edited before you receive them.

Here's the difference between unedited and edited photos.

This is the original image as it appears on my website:

Here's a cropped and edited version:

Here's an alternative crop:

As you can see there is quite a bit on enhancement than can occur with these unedited photos.

If your current school, team or league photographer isn't offering these services and you would like to switch to our service, please let me know. We are pretty tightly booked, but we can always find a way to make room for more customers. If you would like to see samples of our work, letters of reccomdendation and sample price lists, please contact me and I'll get them to you ASAP.

A little of this and a little of that

I've posted the latest Little League all-star photos from Friday on the website and should be able to get some more games in later this week.

I'm teaching a photography class in Montgomery each Tuesday in July. If it goes well, I may try to do the same in other communities. If you know of a town that might have some interest in hiring me, let me know.

My goal is to help people progress from taking pictures to making photographs by learning more about the manual settings on their camera and by using some tried and tested tips and techniques (say that three times fast!) I learned along the way.

Also, I thought I'd share a couple of photos.

One is of a good friend Jim Hill - who said he won a bet for showing up at a little league game with his cute-as-a-button daughter Lizzie dressed like the naked cowboy - only with short - thank God. This photo is apropos of nothing, but I know it will annoy Jim and I live for that.

Next, here are some fireworks photos from the Lake Carmi fireworks show. There's nothing I enjoy photographing more than fireworks. That's all I got for now - stay safe, hug your kids and keep cool --- Shawn

Making progress

Whew! What a crazy six weeks or so!

Between league shoots, processing, weddings, family portraits, etc ... and trying to carve out a personal life it's been a long time between posts. I've not forgotten about Examiner.com, but something had to give as spring turned to summer.

That said, I'm finally finding my footing (and am encouraged by the number of people calling to book their senior portraits) and wanted to touch base clean up a few things.

First of all, I'm aware that Little League tournaments are gearing up and I plan on getting to as many games as my schedule allows.

Secondly, I think I've caught up on all uploads and updates on the spring sports page, but if you think there's some photos that have been missed, please let me know.

Against my best wishes, I've opted for uploading unedited photos to get my shots up as soon as possible, but I'm going to press the point that you can crop any photo you like to your wishes. Several folks have done this, but I want to make it clear that it's easy to improve on the shots I'm posting and the quality is not compromised when you crop the photos.

I'll be creating a new summer sports photo list and will provide links to whatever Little League, Legion, Voltage, etc ... games I attend there as time goes along.

In closing, thanks to you all for your business, for checking out my blog and for your patience with the delays in uploads. We are a very busy work in progress and if I had my druthers I'd blog more, but I have to balance the time spent writing with the duties that are paying the bills.

Take care!

Shawn