U of M/ U of M

I don’t even want to think how many press conferences I have gone to in my 21-year photographic career and while the news they are announcing is often important, the image of ‘person behind podium’ is often less than inspiring.  I have also learned that, the former being true, you just never know when a ‘real moment’ will occur and is the reason photographers tend to scurry around an event, looking for a different angle, a ’real moment’, an image other than what is supplied at the podium.  I didn’t get one at the University of Michigan press conference concerning new women’s basketball coach Kim Barnes Arico, at least not one of the subject but I did get a wonderful image of her daughters Emma and Cecelia as they looked out a reflective window onto the huge Michigan Stadium football field.  I doubt it will ever run in the paper but still, a good image is a good image, and the next ’presser’ I go to, I’ll be scurrying just alittle bit harder.