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Ye Olde Take My Picture March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment On Sunday, I photographed the Medieval Fair at Reaves Park in Norman, Okla. I took pictures of a character called King Henry I as he knighted people in the center of the park, and after a few of the ceremonies, he turned toward my camera for an ‘official’ picture. If either one of you has forgotten about our... Read More

Emotional basketball March 29, 2010 Staff Photographer Bryan Terry was on the road over the weekend, covering the University of Oklahoma’s women’s basketball team. The Sooners beat Notre Dame last night and will advance to the elite eight in the NCAA tournament. Meanwhile, back in Oklahoma City, the Thunder lost to the Portland Trail Blazers. The... Read More

The Big House March 27, 2010 Early this month, I covered several state basketball tournament games at the State Fair Arena, better known as the Big House in the month of March. Over the course of two weekends, I took 9,234 pictures in succession to create a time-lapse video of the state games. Not all frames made an appearance in the final... Read More

Best of the Year March 23, 2010 The Oklahoman Staff Photographer Jim Beckel has placed in NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Contest. Last year, during an outbreak of wildfires, Beckel was sent to a neighborhood in Midwest City that is less than half a mile from his home. Beckel described a scene of chaos, but what caught his eye amid all the... Read More

Pictures I Like-Basketball Edition March 14, 2010 Looking through our photo archive after the weekend, it was hard to find picture that wasn’t taken at a basketball game. Here’s a couple of pictures from the high school championship games that jumped out at me, but really, there isn’t room on the blog for all the pictures I thought were good. Check out the... Read More

Full-court Press March 11, 2010 The Oklahoman’s photo staff is busy covering high school, college and professional basketball. Bryan Terry and Chris Landsberger are in Kansas City covering the Big 12 tournament, Nate Billings photographed the Thunder last night and Sarah Phipps, Steve Sisney and Nate will cover the state high school... Read More

A quick update March 10, 2010 Last Sunday I wrote about the activists who staged a campaign outside the Chase Tower in Oklahoma City. Their hope was to convince Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn to lift his hold on Senate Bill 1067. After camping outside the building for 11 days, the group got word on Tuesday that Coburn had lifted his hold.... Read More

Welcome to the Big House March 07, 2010 Follow these links to galleries from the finals of the Oklahoma high school state basketball tournament: Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class B Boys, Class B Girls “Congratulations! It is Championship Saturday and you have made it to the Big House,” 12-year announcer Steve Daniels proclaimed to a large... Read More

People On Sundays-campaigning March 07, 2010 There’s more than 50 of them. They are mostly on the north side of the building where  the wind isn’t as bad, packed into bright sleeping bags and blankets. Nobody’s moving at 7:30 a.m.  Clasps on flags ping against poles at Park and Broadway. Thirty minutes later, cell phone alarms start chirping... Read More

State basketball tournament March 06, 2010 The state high school basketball tournament is one of the favorite events of our staff to cover. There is often a lot of negotiating among us to get to see who will get to cover the championship days because of the high potential for great pictures. For a photographer, the reaction photos are the best thing about... Read More