BLAIR FIELD - Long Beach State's Jason Corder (47) watches as a ball he hit reaches the left-center field wall but gets caught during their game at against Blair Field in Long Beach, Calif. on April 27, 2008. see more photos/buy reprints>>
Cal State Long Beach student Jennifer Iovanovici joined about 100 other 49ers as they watched their team lose - not just lose 121-86 to Tennessee on Friday, but roll over and play dead - ON NATIONAL TELEVISION! See more pictures of upset students>>
It really was like the Super Bowl for a city without an NFL team. I left Long Beach at 10 AM for a 1:30 start time - while it only took a half hour to get to Pasadena - it took an hour and a half to actually get in the Rose Bowl parking lot. Once in the stadium I'm lugging 40 pounds of photo gear up and down the sidelines to cover the game. When I cover a game I really don't care who wins, I'm just looking for good, storytelling images. About halfway through the game USC scores a touchdown right in front of me (you can even see Pete Caroll celebrating in the background) and had they won this might have been on the cover of sports - but they blew it. So instead UCLA is celebrating on the cover of sports and this image is destined to live as ones and zeros in the series of tubes that makes up the internet. Click here to see more pictures >>
Shooting at the Pyramid is always fun - especially becuase it's one of the brightest college venues in Southern California. Because of the shape of the building, a pyramid of course, the lights are basically on the walls. This makes the players side lit and eliminates shadows found in most other gyms that have lights in the ceilings. -- But enough of the technical stuff.
The fun stuff is taking pictures from two places at the same time. If you look at tomorrow's (Saturday, Nov. 18) Press-Telegram sports section you may notice that the two action pictures from this game are from different angles. One from up top and one from the floor.
To be in 'two places at once' I used a remote camera (see arrow in the top image and the close-up to the left).
The remote camera took a picture every time I pressed the shutter button on the camera in my hand. The picture on the left was taken by the remote camera - the arrow is pointing to me.
The result is the picture on the left, which was taken by the remote camera while I was on the other side of the court.
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The Long Beach State 49ers opened their new season in a new building - USC's new building that is - The Galen Center. But, I couldn't see the game because a beautiful cheerleader was blocking my view. Even as the Trojans dribbled up and down the shinny new court workers were waxing floors and wet paint signs hung on some walls. It's a beautiful building - the type of place that would be great for hosting Ballroom Dancing should Los Angeles ever get the Summer Olympics again. Click here to see pictures of the game>>
