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It’s that time of year!

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Tuesday morning greetings to one and all!

We’re back to work after a nice three day holiday weekend! Hopefully your Labor Day weekend was a good one and also a safe one!

One of my favorite times of the year is upon us with the start of football season. The high schools and colleges started playing games this past weekend and the NFL will start playing this Thursday night and coming weekend! As much as I love watching football, I really love shooting the games even more! Most of the high school games are played on Friday nights and from a photography standpoint, night games aren’t all that great to shoot. Most high school fields have poor lighting for photography, so it really makes it hard to get good photos. I usually have to wait until the regular season is done and for the playoffs to begin before I can shoot any games. The high school playoffs are played on Saturday afternoons and usually the weather is very conducive for good photography. As luck would have it for me, we had some storms and lighting in the Central Illinois area on Friday night and a few of the games had to be postponed because of the bad weather. One of the games that ended up being played on Saturday morning was a match up with Washington Community High School taking on Bloomington Central Catholic. Both teams were a little rusty in the first half and there were a lot of penalties and not much to shoot in terms of the football action. Things picked up in the second half of the game and I was able to get a few good action shots and that made me very happy!

Here’s one of my photos from this past Saturday’s game with WCHS vs BCC.

Enjoy the short week of work and I hope that your week is a good one!!!

Thanks as always!!!

Kev

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It’s that time of year!!!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all,
Yes it’s that time of year when football is back and it’s a glorious time of the year! The high schools and colleges started playing last weekend and this weekend the NFL kicked off their season. I felt a little guilty watching my beloved Chicago Bears on Sunday being such a nice sunny day in Peoria, but I couldn’t miss the first game of the season. On a yucky rainy day it’s one thing to be a couch potato and watch all the ball games and I don’t feel too guilty, but on a good day I do just a little bit!!!! 🙂 It’s going to be fun watching all the games this season and I’m looking forward to it!!!

I was shooting for my friends at Schutt Sports recently and we shot a bunch of football shots! It’s always fun and challenging to come up with some different ways to showcase the different Schutt products. We’ve got a good team working on these shots and it shows in the shots that we are getting! It’s fun to be able to do lighting and create some mood and drama to these photos!
Here’s a few of my shots from the day shooting for Schutt Sports.

It’s time for the big push for the next few months before Thanksgiving and I’m ready to rock!!!!!

I hope that you have a great week to come and thanks as always for checking out my work!!!!!!

Kev

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2012 Top Ten Kevin May Photos

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Thursday afternoon greetings from a snowy Las Cruces, New Mexico!

I’ve put together my top ten photos from 2012 and wanted to show the variety of gigs that we did for clients this past year.

I’ve got two links for you, to view the PDF version, click on this link http://kevinmay.com/2012topten.pdf
to view the Powerpoint version, click on this link http://kevinmay.com/2012topten.ppt

Thanks for checking out my top ten photos and I hope that you have a great weekend!!!!

Kev

More football and the Holiday season!!!!!!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!!

The year is really starting to wind down and for a lot of people I know and this will be the last week of work with Christmas coming in just eight days! It’s hard to believe that Christmas and New Years are almost here!!!!!

I had a great shoot a week ago with my friends at Schutt Sports and we were shooting some new images for their upcoming trade show season after the first of the year! We had our great model Robert once again and he really does a incredible job and is so easy for me to work with!!!! It’s a lot of fun when the images are coming together and looking so good!!!!

If you’re going to be traveling this coming week for Christmas, be safe and have a wonderful Holiday season!!!!!

All my best as always and have a great week!!!!!

Kev

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Hot potato!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!!

One of the two best things that happens here in the Midwest in the fall is the cooler temperatures from summer and the other great thing is IHSA playoff football. These high school kids have all played a season of football and now the best of the best are competing in the playoffs. They will have playoff games for a few more weeks with the championship games being played at the University of Illinois in Champaign on Thanksgiving weekend!

One of the things that I really like is to have a high school football payoff game that’s played on sunny Saturday afternoon and I get to shoot it!!! Brimfield/Elmwood played a St. Thomas Moore from Champaign, Il. on Saturday and I was able to shoot it and I had a blast!!!!

Here’s one of my snaps from the game and indeed that football can be a “Hot Potato”!!!!

I hope that you have a wonderful week to come and thanks as always for checking out my work!!!!

Kev

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Chevrolet and the University Of Illinois

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!

I did a shoot for Chevrolet last May over at the U of I in Champaign, Illinois and I’m now able to share the first part of that shoot. Chevy has teamed up with the U of I to do a promotion with the football and basketball teams and I got hired to snap the shots! Chevy wanted shots of some of their different cars with Memorial Stadium (football) and Assembly Hall (basketball). I went over a few weeks before the shoot and scouted the locations and did some quick test shots for the people in Michigan. We looked at the weather and picked what ended up to be a perfect day, beautiful blue skies and lots and lots of sun!!!! For the different ads, we shot individual shots of the cars at each location and then did a group shot of all of the cars as well.

Today I’m sharing the group shot at Memorial Stadium!!!

I hope that you have a great week to come and thanks as always for checking out my work!!!

Kev

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It’s time for some football!!!

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Monday morning Peoria greetings to one and all!!!!!

It’s getting to be that time of year when football season gets going! Already the local Peoria High School teams had their first games this past weekend and we’ll have the college and NFL seasons starting in the next couple of weeks. I can’t wait to see a game in person or just kick back on the couch and watch them at home!

Right before I left for my world shoot back in July, I was able to do a shoot for my friends at Schutt Sports! We had a great shoot as always and shot a variety of shots and it worked out great!!! Here’s one of my shots of our three football players all decked out in some Schutt gear!

Next weekend here in the US is Labor Day weekend. If you’ll be traveling like I am, have fun and be safe!!!!

Thanks as always for taking the time to check out my work and I hope that you have a great week!!!!

Kev

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