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“Purple” – i heart faces

Ryan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:51:34 +0000

Since I spent the entire weekend watching gymnastics, I thought I would enter a gymnastics photo into this week’s i heart faces photo contest. The theme? Purple.

Link to the challenge page here.

2010 US Classic

Ryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:38:13 +0000

Well, our trip to Chicago was certainly eventful. Almost 9.5 hours in the car, the hotel losing air conditioning and water for 4 hours, every other hotel in Chicago being full because it is their “busy season”, and our smoking “non-smoking” room. It’s a good thing the awesome gymnastics made up for all of that.

Unforunately, I was only able to take photos of half of the first session of gymnastics (out of three total sessions) before I was told to put my camera away. There were definitely some insane camera restrictions going on. It really stunk to have to stop taking photos, but I finally watched a meet like a normal spectator and I must say, it was pretty fun.

Here are a few of my favorites from the session. A link to the complete gallery of the session is at the end of this post below the photos.

*COMPLETE GALLERY FROM THE SESSION*
Juniors Session 1

My other blog posts about gymnastics here.

Success!

Ryan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:45:12 +0000

I have been an album-designing fiend lately, and I wanted to show you one that turned out much better than I thought it would! (You will have to excuse the terrible product photography going on here.)

I had been twirling ideas around in my head about making a hardcover book of my favorite photos from Nationals this year. I had a long debate with myself as to which company I wanted to try, and decided to go with Mpix Pro. I am a professional member with them and I love their quality, but I hadn’t tried any of their press products yet. The final decision ended up being an 8×12 hardcover layflat book. I love it!

This is the cover and two spreads.

This is a spread of the Junior and Senior National Teams, the binding, and a little outline of Ivana Hong I put on the spine.

It is now sitting on my bookshelf with all of my other gymnastics books and I am thinking I am going to make this my project for every major gymnastics meet I attend. What do you think?

If you missed out on the galleries from Nationals, they’re still here.

Nationals photos…the rest of the best

Ryan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:28:36 +0000

So they are finally here…almost. I have started to process some of the 1,500 photos I took (As in I saved 1,500 photos. I took about 3,000.) from August 12th through the 15th.

I am starting with the Junior women’s prelim session and going alphabetically down the line. I have been able to add about 30 new photos per night so you can check out the galleries each morning for a little morning pick-me-up or you can wait until I announce that I have completed the uploads for each session (you’ll have to follow along on Facebook or Twitter if you want to know when that happens).

And a big “Thank You!” to all of the girls who are some of the most amazing subjects a photographer could ask for!

**Complete photo galleries from the 2009 Visa Championships**

First step to the World team is complete

Ryan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:47:19 +0000

The Finals session for the Senior women at Nationals still managed to be exciting despite the diminished number of competitors. It was so much fun to try to guess who was going to win.

Probably the best thing of the entire week was the AA title coming down to the last two events. I think that is the first time since this open-ended code has been implemented that the end of a meet has been that exciting! Hit floor routines and STUCK vaults took it down to the wire. Any one of the top three girls had a chance to win it. Congratulations to Bridget on her new National AA Champion title!

2009-2010 Senior National Team
Jana Bieger, Coconut Creek, Fla., Bieger International Gymnastics
Rebecca Bross, Plano, Texas, WOGA Gymnastics
Mackenzie Caquatto, Naperville, Ill., Naperville Gymnastics Club
Kaitlyn Clark, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Precision Gymnastics
Olivia Courtney, Orlando, Fla., Orlando Metro Gymnastics
Ivana Hong, Lovejoy, Texas, WOGA Gymnastics
Kytra Hunter, Frederick, Md., Hill’s Gymnastics
Alaina Johnson, Tyler, Texas, Texas East Gymnastics
Mattie Larson, Los Angeles, All-Olympia
Anastasia Liukin, Parker, Texas, WOGA Gymnastics
Chellsie Memmel, West Allis, Wis., M&M Gymnastics
Samantha Peszek, Indianapolis, Ind., Sharp’s Gymnastics
Samantha Shapiro, Los Angeles, All-Olympia
Bridget Sloan, Pittsboro, Ind., Sharp’s Gymnastics
Cassandra Whitcomb, Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Gymnastics
Kayla Williams, Nitro, W.V., Gym Nest Inc.

Congratulations girls!

Good luck on your journey to World Championships!

Second elite meet, Junior National Champion!

Ryan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:46:50 +0000

Congratulations to Kyla Ross! In only her second elite meet she rocked her routines to become the new Junior National AA Champion. She looked so calm and collected throughout both days of competition. For being only 12 years old she has amazing poise. Her skills look WAY too easy for her so I would venture to say that she has many possible upgrades in the works.

2009-2010 US Junior National Team
Bridgette Caquatto, Naperville, Ill., Naperville Gymnastics Club
Briley Casanova, Dallas, Texas, WOGA Gymnastics
Sophina DeJesus, Temecula, Calif., SCEGA Gymnastics
Amanda Jetter, Milford, Ohio, Cincinnati Gymnastics
Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, WOGA Gymnastics
Katelyn Ohashi, Independence, Mo., Great American Gymn. Express
Alexandra Raisman, Needham, Mass., Brestyan’s American Gymnastics
Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., Gym-Max Gymnastics
Morgan Smith, Clearmont, Fla., Brandy Johnson’s Global GYM
Sabrina Vega, Carmel, N.Y., Dynamic Gymnastics
Jordyn Wieber, DeWitt, Mich., Gedderts Twistars USA

Sophina De Jesus and Briley Casanova have been selected to go to the Japan Junior International Competition at the end of September.

Way to go girls!

Seniors – New faces and comebacks

Ryan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:34:01 +0000

So many of the Seniors are in the process of coming back from their Olympic success last year. The downside to that is that there weren’t very many girls doing all events. The upside to that is that they went one at a time (a la Olympic Trials) so it was really easy to see every routine.

I have to give a “Congratulations!” to Kayla Williams from Bozhis. I have had the opportunity to watch her come up through the ranks since 2004 and it is great to see her on the National stage doing so well.