Since retiring in 2007 after two careers -- Fire Weather Research Meteorology (16 years) and Software Engineering (27 years) -- I have covered sports photography primarily for nearby Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles -- mostly basketball, football, track-and-field, and baseball, but also occasionally including other sports, some community activities, and just plain hanging-out. There are more than 152,000 publicly-visible photos in over 1200 albums of photographs --and occasionally video clips -- from games, matches, practices, and other public events. The website -- now 19 years old -- has had more than 38 million views!

 

I own the internet domains "shawdog.com" and "shawdog.org", which both automatically forward to these Flickr pages, whose purpose is to provide FREE pictures of as many Crenshaw athletes as possible. Although the emphasis is on Crenshaw, there are also thousands of pictures of athletes from the many schools against which Crenshaw competes both in CIF City Section and CIF-State, as well as some events where Crenshaw is not involved, such as L.A. City Section playoff games, junior college tournaments, and community-interest activities.

 

My pictures have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wave Newspapers, the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Wall Street Journal, and ESPN Magazine.

 

Here are two L.A. Times articles specifically about my work:

 

autos.yahoo.com/look-crenshaw-football-greats-lens-144310...

 

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-05-sp-good-sport...

 

Flickr.com allows you to directly order prints of any image (you will have to sign-up for a Flickr account but the signup is free). You can also download the images and send the jpg files to one of the many online print services such as Walgreens or EZPrints.

 

A BIG "THANK YOU!": In 2006, Crenshaw alumnus MarQuis Davis first turned me on to flickr.com as a way to distribute these pix, and I cannot thank him enough. "Good lookin' out, MarQuis!"

 

The athletic mural that appears at the top of my main album page was once painted on the north exterior side of the Crenshaw gym by artist Patrick Johnson. Although long gone, it can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/shawdog/3450862519/in/album-7215761...

 

Back to the shawdog.com main page:

 

www.flickr.com/shawdog/sets

 

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  • JoinedDecember 2006
  • OccupationSoftware Engineer. Embedded Systems. Retired.
  • HometownLos Angeles, California
  • Current cityLos Angeles, California
  • CountryUSA

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