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UConn Huskies defensive back Tyler Coyle getting his last summer workout in before he heads back to college. A National Champion in the 4x200 in high school, this guy can fly around the field and isn’t afraid to lay the big hits.
Coach K, shot on assignment for @dukembb this weekend. The winningest coach in NCAA history, five Olympic gold medals🥇, and a Vietnam War Veteran. A bit surreal to get a chance to work for his program for an afternoon. (at Conte Forum)
Getting married at Boston City Hall in two months. Dropped by to scout photo locations and grabbed a few shots to play with. Beautiful day in Boston
Photos from a recent visit to artist Kevin Beasley’s Long Island City artist studio. Kevin is a former classmate of mine from my time at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. He’s now a thriving artist in NYC and has shown or performed works at the MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney Biennial to name a few. He’ll be having a solo exhibition in Boston next summer at the Institute of Contemporary Art and I can’t wait to have him in town!
4.28.2017 Narragansett, RI
Jesse’s Custom Design
A few days ago I paid a visit to artist Jesse Acciacca of Jesse’s Custom Design to get a glimpse into the magic behind goalie mask art. I’ve photographed a number of his helmets in action on the likes of All-American Katie Burt of Boston College and former Eagle Thatcher Demko. One of my childhood dreams gone by was to one day have a career as a mask painter and I was excited to finally see the process that goes into the product we see on the ice.
In the coming months I’ll be going back out to the shop to catch up with Jesse as hockey season approaches and the surge of helmets to be painted come in the door. For now, take a look at some of my images around the shop and give Jesse a call for any of your high end airbrushing needs.
Getting into the detail work on a black panther motocross helmet commission.
This wild metal flake base will soon have a Hartford Whalers tribute design over the top of it. A few of my favorite things all rolled into one.
A few framed portraits of past customers keep watch over the office while Jesse work’s on a motocross helmet commission in the shop.
A shot I took of Katie Burt during the Hockey East tournament in a helmet painted by Jesse.
A portrait of local Boston Bruins star Tuuka Rask with his Olympic mask painted by Jesse.
An Andy Moog tribute helmet along with a few Boston Bruins Moog jerseys on display.
A few Ron Hextall tribute helmets along with a signed jersey with a message “The first goalie to ever score”.
Jesse in his office where he does the digital layout of the designs. The walls are covered in past commissions from NHL helmets, to Harley tanks, and numerous Motley Crue projects.
I couldn’t get enough of this vintage fridge that Jesse resurrected. The big metal flake paint and pinstriping were just too good.
The paint mixing room
An awesome Molson promotion stick that a friend gifted to Jesse
One last shot of the future Whalers mask just because it’s hard to beat mega flake!
The Boston Bruins hold practices at Warrior Ice Arena and allow fans to spectate for free. It’s a great time to get up close and personal with your favorite players and for me it was a chance to snap some photos of the big guys during a slow week of work. The all glass wall along the rink gives off some beautiful light to shoot in!
If you could wake up anywhere on Earth today, where would it be? Wishing big time I could be back on the Bonneville Salt Flats this morning for the start of Speed Week. What a strange and magical place. (at Bonneville Salt Flats)
Fun shoot location today! (at Gillette Stadium)
Impatiently waiting for the return of football. The hellish few weeks of practice in August heat, the sounds of the game; from the crashing pads to the chirping whistles, and the anticipation of a season that is still perfect but has yet to begin. No losses to dwell over, and a dozen future wins to dream of. I love this time of year. 🏈
Picked up a new travel camera, the Fuji X100T. I can’t get enough of this thing. Jam packed with features and the almighty WiFi, yet unassuming and far less invasive than pointing a DSLR at a stranger. It doesn’t replace a big gun completely but it sure is a fun tool for making ideas into pixels. Thanks for the advice @mattlaverefoto, @maxg_ , and @iamryanhickey. And a big thanks especially to @zarias for his extensive unfiltered Fuji reviews on Dedpxl. Hope there’s room for one more on the bandwagon. (at Boston, Massachusetts)
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Shooting with BC Hockey : A dream opportunity, nearly 20 years in the making.
The Eagles play a bit of two touch beneath the TD Garden as they wait for UMass Lowell and Providence to finish up a double overtime thriller in the Hockey East semifinal. Nearly two hours separated the originally scheduled puck drop and the actual start of the BC game. For me, two hours was nothing in what felt like a dream come true, twenty years in the making.
It’s February of 1997. I’m 11 years old going on 21. It’s winter break and my parents have two options, let me stay home alone while my sister is at the neighbor’s babysitting for a week straight or drop me off 100 miles north at my brother’s BC dorm and let me try and survive a week at college. Thankfully my mom chose the latter and I was headed to the land of Labor Law classes and endless hours of Sega hockey and Battletoads.
My vintage BC jersey, a medium, still fits if I don’t wear pads underneath!
My February visits to Boston would become an annual tradition even after my brother graduated but while he was there, I’d often snag his oversized rollerblades and roll down to Conte Forum and skate endless laps around the stands or sit and watch basketball and hockey practices. Child services would likely be calling my parents nowadays if their eleven or twelve year old was sitting alone in the stands on a Tuesday afternoon 100 miles from home. It was quite the experience to have an entire stadium to yourself and nobody to wrestle with when a puck went up into the stands. This was the beginning of my love for BC hockey. The beginning years of Jerry York’s illustrious BC coaching career and the beginning of BC’s rise to becoming a powerhouse college hockey program. The rising success of the team also meant more TV time on NESN and my mom and I would watch nearly every televised game in hopes that they’d show my brother in the pep band during a break in the action. We probably taped weeks worth of BC games on VHS for the 30 seconds of footage they ever showed of the band. And even if we could find which tape it was on, none of us even have a VCR to watch it on!
Fast forward fifteen years, my brother and I have each relocated to parts of the East Coast after moving to Michigan for school. A degree from University of MIchigan Law for him and a decade in Detroit for me along with a photo degree from the College for Creative Studies. Now living right up the road from BC, I’m constantly reminded of the fun times I had their as a kid on vacation. While I haven’t been following college hockey as close as I once did, I thought it’d be awesome to go back to a familiar place and photograph it with fresh eyes. I’ve been shooting a lot of hockey lately and I figured the worst they can say is “go away buddy”. I reached out to the hockey program late on a Friday afternoon and didn’t expect to hear back until Monday but less than 10 minutes later I had a reply and a potential opportunity to shoot the Hockey East semifinal a week later. For the dozens of non-returned emails or “no thanks, we already have it covered”, sometimes it works out! I’m glad this is the one that did.
A week later I had my first chance to shoot in a professional arena and take a stab at shooting through the hockey hole! The pace of the game took some getting used to. These guys are FAST! And although the hole in the glass is very small, you have to constantly be aware of your surroundings because you may be looking one way and someone who’s not in view could be clearing the puck around the boards or slamming someone’s face right into your vicinity. I managed to survive the hockey hole unscathed but I also found out just how challenging the photography side of hockey becomes when you’re limited to a specific location. Although local rinks rarely have holes to get crisp images through, there’s a lot more freedom to move around and find compelling angles. I rarely have to worry about blocking the view of a paying spectator. At the TD Garden I had my assigned location and while I could always walk up to the concourse and shoot from up top, I really love the tight, dramatic imagery that comes from being right in the action. As the game went on and Northeastern had the game all but wrapped up, I did have a chance to move around a bit and work through the glass at a non photographer spot but it was definitely a rare chance to snag a front row seat, even late in the 3rd period.
While I wasn’t on the hook to turn around the images right away, I practiced working on a deadline workflow by quickly making selects between periods and uploading to a shared folder before racing back out to the rink. I definitely have a huge amount of respect for BC’s staff photographer John Quackenbos and the guys and gals that shoot hockey on tight deadlines and manage to do it creatively. I can’t thank BC enough for the opportunity to shoot with the team and get some experience in a pro arena. While I wish the outcome would have gone in BC’s favor, it was a goal filled game and a great opportunity! Enjoy some of my images below and thanks for reading!
As the game pushed late into the night the stands cleared out as many students wanted to make sure they didn’t miss the last train back to campus.
Vancouver Canuck’s draft selection Thatcher Demko
The Eagles and Huskies line up and shake hands as Northeastern heads on to an eventual victory in the Hockey East Championship that weekend.
BC Eagle Miles Wood lighting the lamp against Northeastern one week ago during the Hockey East Semifinal.
Took the quick mile and a half trek over to Boston College to catch the Women’s Hockey NCAA Quarterfinal yesterday. The Eagles scored early and often en route to their 39th straight victory. The 5-1 win over Northeastern sends BC to the Frozen Four and a National Semifinal against Clarkson next weekend in Durham, NH.
2016 New England High School Indoor Track Championships at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Complex. It was my first time photographing a track meet and I had a blast!