CPOY and midnight basketball game

I watched the judging of this College Photographer of the Year contest, and I saw one of my submissions won an award of excellence in the portrait category.

Last night, the UNM men's basketball team plays a game against Davidson at midnight in Albuquerque. The Lobos participated in the ESPN's 24 hour college basketball marathon. They were down by 15+points at the end of the first half. And they made huge comeback and won the game 86-81.

Here's a picture of a Lobo player celebrating when there's 1.9 sec left in the game.

Football New Mexico vs Fresno State

Football UNM vs FSU from Junfu Han on Vimeo.


I shot my first Lobos football game of this season yesterday.
so bad, the Lobos lost, but I looking forward to cover the rest of the season

hurdle

I shot this photo with a new(old) camera I just got, @Albuquerque Convention Center  during the New Mexico Invitational

NCAA second round

A picture from the second round of NCAA men's soccer game at Albuquerque, NM.
New Mexico 2-1 Duke

one year loseversary

@Thomas&Mack Center, Las Vegas, 2009

I still remember the photo I took last year at Las Vegas after New Mexico lost the semifinal game versus Utah at the Mountain West Conference Basketball Tournament

The girls lost the game to the same team again after a heartbreaking overtime

I am not going to the tournament this year

instead I'm enjoying working as a temporary photo editor at the Daily Lobo, editing other freelance photographers' photos and I don't shoot any assignments this week

hopefully the Men's team could make to NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, then I will get the chance to go and cover it

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six and half hour later will be my last mid-term exam

gonna get some sleep then do some review again

I want spring break so bad

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BTW, I got an email tonight telling me that I am one of the winners of the UNM ISI program summer scholarships.

Thank you Jim Fisher and Catherine Harris for the recommendation letters.

And thank you Jim Montalbano for editing my project proposal.

Looking forward to do my summer documentary project in China.

life is a vending machine

Oh boy, oh boy

UNM Lobos almost lost but they went overtime with San Diego State, and beat them at the end

That's the kind of game I want to see, not a team leading 20+ points in the first half, then they play boring in the second half.

Mr. Vander Galien told me he does not want to see his team tight with the other like that, because it's not safe.

Fine, I just care I can good shots or not now, I'm tired of this winning or losing

WIKIPEDIA:

A vending machine provides snacks, beverages, lottery tickets, and other products to consumers without a cashier. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vending_machine)

you know what I mean, don't you

football + yoga

When I got Issac's message yesterday, I laughed out.
The first request I received this week is to take photos of the UNM football players doing yoga. It would be fun to watch those people that are huge doing yoga which is the thing mostly for skinny people and they do it very slow.


A few players showed up, but the ones that attended were concentrated on doing yoga. Very soon, I figured out they seemed more interested in looking that the yoga teacher than doing yoga. ( This is the universal phenomenon but wouldn't been included in the reporter's article.)
Issac told me this lady is Mike Locksley's wife. And Mike Locksley is the UNM football head coach.


ps, Hope UNM football team could do a good job in the coming season. (At least, should be better than last year.)
Well, I really don't understand why the Mountain West Conference has a stupid preseason poll, which picked the Lobos to finish in the 7th place in the 2009 race. ( I don't want to deny the fact that the Lobos didn't do a good job before, but the preseason poll couldn't do any good to motivate the college students. Come on, they are just college kids.)

lunch break

I used my the lunch break to shoot the UNM football team press conference. When I got there I couldn't believe they chose to have it outside. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon and over 100 degrees.
Well, I got used to it. I'm just complaining.

ps, I just found the color of this photo is different from how it looks like on Photoshop. Even, with the same photo, but different color on the Bridge compared to Photoshop, the latter one is more vivid.