ugly deadlines

First of all----the main picture above me, I just love. Hard to tell from it so small---but the dudes eyes are locked onto the ball. Very nice. Its a shame it only ran so big on the first edition of the paper-----

Night deadlines can be nasty. Especially if they are on a Saturday night. I moved out to the west coast thinking that the deadlines would be so much easier and better---but that's not true. Our deadlines are actually earlier than most east coast papers (factoring in the time difference).

So, both the college football teams we cover were in southern California. One game was at 530pm the other at 715pm. We need color pictures for the first edition by 7pm. So, one game is already not happening (the UW game, which is more important to our paper.) So coupled with night shooting, nasty deadlines and transmitting issues from hell one of our photographers had---it wasnt a fun Saturday night for me.

Here are some of the pages. Directly below is the cover for the final edition.