Rounding the final corner on to the home stretch. It’s a scene right out of the film Ben-Hur – creaky chariots hurtling around a dirt track in a chaotic, thunderous mass of wheels and hooves. Each year during the Calgary Stampede chuckwagon drivers push there teams of thoroughbreds around the ‘half-mile of hell’, in search […]
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Stampede Rodeo
Bull Riding Being thrown, face first into the dirt would likely mean a bad day at the office for the vast majority of us. However, the image above is a photo of a successful bull ride. Ryan McConnel (above photo) walked away from his ride atop ‘Pop Evil’ with Saturday’s top prize money after staying […]
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Stamps and shovels
McMahon Stadium was busy Thursday morning as both the Calgary Stampeders and the stadium’s staff prepared for Sunday’s CFL West Final. The Stampeders play the Saskatchewan Roughriders to see who progresses to the 2010 Grey Cup Final and were working their way through their playbooks during team practice. The staff were working their way through […]
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It’s an honour just to be nominated (and all that stuff)
Allow me this moment of shameless self-promotion. The nominations for the 2009 Pictures of the Year were announced by the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) Thursday night. And in the Sports Action category there’s a photo of curler Glenn Howard celebrating a final rock victory at last year’s Brier, taken by yours truly. This […]
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Russia vs Canada
On Tuesday Canada played Russia in the quarter-finals of the Olympic hockey tournament in Vancouver. As is common with major hockey games the Calgary Herald sent me to a local pub to get some fan photos to run in the next day’s paper. The writer was looking for something different from the usual ‘Go Canada […]
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Olympic Torch Relay
I spent four days on the road with Calgary Herald columnist Valerie Fortney covering the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay in southern Alberta, Canada. We were somewhat disappointed when we realized that it wasn’t a relay in the true sense of the word. It turns out the flame isn’t carried from town to town by […]
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PM at Flames game
During Tuesday’s Calgary Flames game against the St. Louis Blues at the Saddledome there were a few suited, rather built, fellows with audio ear pieces – obvious security. It took me a while but I eventually spotted the subject of their attention. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was sitting a couple rows down from my assigned […]
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