Spurs Win!!!!

Those of you who know me, know I am a crazy futbol fan! The first futbol club I fell in love with as a kid was Tottenham Hotspur and today we won our first big trophy since 1999!  When you are in the same league as the likes of Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, it's a big deal when someone other than those four wins something and we have done it!!! 

Loving my spurs!!!

Nyack wins!!!

Nyack College's women's team had a big night tonight! They beat arch-rival Dominican College for the first time since 1999! It was specially satisfying since they came back from 10 points down to win by 2! The joy that senior Taz Lathon had when the final buzzer rang was infectious! 

I'm still buzzing from the Giant's amazing win two days ago so this was awesome to see! 

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

Can you believe it!?!?!

We're going to the superbowl!!! YEEEEAAAAA!!!!

D3...It just ROCKS!!!

So I finally got my hands on the new Nikon D3 today! 

I had been on a waiting list at Bergen County Camera for almost 4 months when I finally got my call this week to come pick it up! The excitement was like being a kid at christmas! 

Conveniently enough there were some Nyack College basketball games this evening hat I was able to test it out at. 

All the pictures below were taken at 2.8f, 500 shutter, and 6400 iso!! 

This camera is amazing, auto-focus is lighting fast, 9 frames per second and the lighting, well you can see it for yourself here! no flash or strobes! 

Can't wait to get more pictures with this baby! 

The story of these pictures is below on my Sep 5th entry. Crazy story and one never to forget on my birfday no less!!!

Coolest birfday gift ever...

The day before my birthday (sep 4) I got to do one of my favorite things during this time (US OPEN night session!!). Little did I know that I would bring in the first few hours of my birthday together with Nadal, Ferrer and some 15,000 crazy new yorkers..front row!!

The tickets I got put me waaaaay up in the nosebleed seats (no different than any other year really). The matches started super late due to a long day session. So while we waited for the gates of Arthur Ashe to open I got to see Andy Roddick and Nadal on the practice courts real close..very cool!

Once we got in Serena and Justine were set to play a blockbuster quarterfinal before Nadal and Ferrer were gona slug it out. The ladies match didn't start until past 8pm and so the guys match didn't start until after 10pm. By the time the second set finished it was almost midnight. We were going to head home when we saw a bunch of people rush the courtside seats below, so we said 'what the heck, let's go!'. When we got down there they were giving away courtside passes since half the stadium was empty by this time. SO we ran down got out passes and grabed the closest seats to the action...front row!!!!! We couldn't believe it, it was crazy how close we were to these dudes! At that point we said 'screw it we're staying here until the match is over!'.

So after emptying my 4G media card getting some sweet shots and watching Ferrer pull a huge upset over Nadal we finally went home...at 2am! Happy Birthday to me!

Japan/Korea 2002!

I was going through my archives and found some from my first trip to a World Cup in Japan and Korea in 2002. These two countries were fascinating and the people absolutely amazing. I actually had a couple of girls go about 15 minutes out of their way to take me to where I was trying to go! 

Ecuador vs Italy - Ecuador's first game in a world cup EVER. For a country as small as ours this was a momentous event and I had to travel all the way to Sapporo to experience it! Unfortunately we lost 2-0. :(

Ecuador v Mexico - Ecuador's second game. Started off amazing when we scored in the 3rd minute but then it all went sour when we let Mexico come back and beat us 2-1. :(

Ecuador v Croatia - Our last game, we had nothing to lose and so went out and played like we deserved to be here. We won 1-0 and left the stadium and the world cup with our heads held high. Next time it would be different....

I got to experience the second game vs Mexico with my dad. I think it was a dream come true for both of us in many ways! 

These guys didn't know a lick of italian and probably didn't even know any of the players but they jumped on the italian bandwagon anyways!

After the first round games in Japan I took a flight to Korea and experienced soccer Asian style. The atmosphere for that game against Italy was amazing.

I took a chance to do some sightseeing and got to go to Deajeon and see some cool places.

After the game vs Italy my friend Cristina and I stayed up till 4am in the streets of Seoul celebrating with the whole country. For one night I was korean!

US Open...

So I live about 30 minutes from the greatest city in the world and one of my favorite things to do each year is attend one of the most electrifying sporting events: the US Open! Two years ago I was fortunate enough to be able to go to a couple sessions including the FINAL!! I saw Federer beat Agassi and pick up his 2nd US Open in a row. The guy is unbelievable! Here's some of the images I was able to get with my nice zoom lens! 

The day of the mens final they always have the women's champion come out and do a photo shoot for all these photographers. I found myself a nice spot and got several pictures of Kim Clijsters with her trophy, very cool! 

I was also able to get this photo of Martina Navratilova. she is crazy strong!

They also have the final of wheelchair tennis. These guys were amazing! 

Yep! this was my view of Arthur Ashe Stadium. My zoom lens is NICE! 

This was after Agassi played a marathon 5 set match against James Blake. The match went to 1:15 in the morning. It was definitely the best tennis match I had ever witnessed!

This is one of my favorite shots of Agassi. 

Got to see Venus too! She's as tough as she seems on tv!

Can anyone stop this guy from winning everything that is not on red clay!?!