Best of High School Sports: Spring Edition

Jun 1, 2013

Best of High School Sports: Spring Edition

Jon Sham 0 Comment Sports, The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, baseball, Clarksville, cockeysville, columbia, ellicott city, fulton, high school, howard county, lacrosse, softball, sports, towson, track and field

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Photographers in the Baltimore Sun Media Group shoot at dozens of high school sporting events in the spring. Softball, baseball and lacrosse are the most common team sports, but track and field and tennis are covered as well. Of all of their shutter clicks, photographers Jen Rynda, Brian Krista, Jon Sham, Gene Sweeney Jr., Karl Merton Ferron, Algerina Perna, Lloyd Fox and Kenneth K. Lam compiled some of their favorites from this season. It’s the Best of High School Sports: Spring Edition.

Dec 28, 2012

2012: Baltimore Sun’s Year in Pictures

Robert Hamilton 0 Comment Maryland, The Baltimore Sun Arlington National Cemetery, Art Modell, Cal Ripken, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chincoteague, Clarence Mitchell lll, dolphins, elephants, ellicott city, Fort McHenry, Hurricane Sandy, lacrosse, Matt Wieters, Nick Markakis, Orioles, Pimlico, police, Preakness, Ravens, Ray Rice, Ringling Brothers, Sailabration, Same-sex marriage, sea trials, sunflower, Terrell Suggs, train wreck, USNA

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Wilson Hicks, former Executive Editor for Life Magazine, once wrote, “The most graphic reporting is eyewitness reporting. ‘I was there, I saw it happen, it was like this.’ In journalistic print, the firsthand account which comes closest to reproducing the actuality of an event is the picture…”

Baltimore Sun photographers were on hand to witness and photograph the highs and lows of 2012, from the resurgent Orioles making the playoffs for the first time in 15 years to the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.

The images in this gallery are a sampling of these pictures as selected by Sun Director of Photography Robert Hamilton. Some of these photographs are from significant events that shaped the lives of people; others are small moments of universal truths.

Tips for taking spectacular sports pictures

Jun 26, 2012

Tips for taking spectacular sports pictures

Jon Sham 1 Comment Maryland, Sports, The Baltimore Sun, Tips baseball, brian krista, jen rynda, lacrosse, softball, sports, track and field

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Patuxent Homestead photographers cover scores of high school sporting events during the school year. They capture hundreds of goals and runs, victories and losses, tears of joy and sadness. Photographers Jen Rynda and Brian Krista each picked six of their favorites from baseball, softball, lacrosse and track, and shared a couple of tips for taking great sports shots. (Below)

40-year-old CCBC-Catonsville freshman dominates lacrosse league

Apr 24, 2012

40-year-old CCBC-Catonsville freshman dominates lacrosse league

Jon Sham 0 Comment Sports, Video catonsville cardinals, ccbc-catonsville, college lacrosse, lacrosse, mike brunner

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Mike Brunner is a 40-year-old business owner, real estate agent and a freshman at CCBC-Catonsville. The 6-foot-7, 320-pound father of three is also the leading scorer on the school’s lacrosse team, the Cardinals.

When he and head coach Bill Zopp found out that he was eligible to play, he signed up for the team. Other teams weren’t ready for Brunner at first, because he didn’t play in the fall, but now they design their defenses around him.
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