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Best Photos of the 2026 Winter Olympics – Photography is Nothing – Ep25
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Best Photos of the 2026 Winter Olympics – Photography is Nothing – Ep25

April 1, 2026April 1, 2026

Episode 25 – Bringing you the best action and documentary photography from the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games!  Zach scoured the internet to find the greatest…

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Olympic Fashion Photography – Photography is Nothing – Ep24
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Olympic Fashion Photography – Photography is Nothing – Ep24

April 1, 2026April 1, 2026

Episode 24 – There is typically lots of fashion & editorial photography that surrounds the Olympics. For this year’s 2026 Winter Olympics, Zach & Courtney…

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Kissing the Bricks at the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon
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Kissing the Bricks at the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon

May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

More than 20,000 people ran the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in Indianapolis last Saturday. The highlight for many runners is taking a 2.5-mile lap around the…

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Josef Newgarden at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum
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Josef Newgarden at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

Josef Newgarden visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum last week for the first “An Evening With” event in the newly renovated space. Fans bought tickets…

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Documenting Race Weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Documenting Race Weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

I recently worked with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to document their Verizon 200 at the Brickyard race weekend. There were four races over the weekend…

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Photoshoot with an Indianapolis Motor Speedway Camaro
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Photoshoot with an Indianapolis Motor Speedway Camaro

August 9, 2023August 23, 2023

Having lived in Indianapolis for 17 years now, I always wondered who got to drive the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Camaros I’d see around town each…

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2023 Indianapolis 500: Two Different Views
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2023 Indianapolis 500: Two Different Views

June 12, 2023May 20, 2024

The Indianapolis 500 is a month-long celebration during the month of May in Indiana. This year I photographed two different perspectives on the festivities. First,…

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They Almost Won the Indianapolis 500: Second Place Finishers
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They Almost Won the Indianapolis 500: Second Place Finishers

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023

I went to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum this spring, and seeing as the Indy 500 is this weekend, now is a great time to…

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A Wild Weekend of Gaming – Big East Esports Championships
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A Wild Weekend of Gaming – Big East Esports Championships

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

The Big East Esports Championship at Butler University was full of action and emotion and I was there to document it all! Scroll through the…

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How To Use Motion Blur in Photography to Tell a Story
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How To Use Motion Blur in Photography to Tell a Story

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

Using motion blur in photography is a great way to convey action, movement, and excitement while telling a story. In this post I’ll give some…

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New Butler Esports Park in Indianapolis
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New Butler Esports Park in Indianapolis

October 26, 2022January 19, 2023

Photographing the new Butler Esports Park was my second photoshoot this year in esports. It’s been great learning about this new frontier in sports and…

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Stonewall Sports – Indianapolis Kickball
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Stonewall Sports – Indianapolis Kickball

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021

Stonewall Sports Indianapolis is a community sports organization for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies. I went out to document opening day for their fall kickball league…

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Basketball Emotion in the Hoosier State

March 10, 2021February 5, 2025

I absolutely LOVE doing documentary photography of basketball! If you haven’t heard, Indiana is a HUGE basketball state. Yes, more than other states. There’s nowhere…

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As It Lies: Artistic Photography of Lost Golf Balls
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As It Lies: Artistic Photography of Lost Golf Balls

July 14, 2020May 9, 2024

Documenting lost golf balls as found in nature lead to an interesting series of artistic photographs.

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Indiana Pacers and Motorola US sponsorship
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Indiana Pacers and Motorola

October 15, 2019October 14, 2019

The NBA season is about to get underway, so I thought it time to finally share this shoot from last season.  The Indiana Pacers hired…

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Indiana Pacers Premium Experiences

November 26, 2018May 8, 2019

In October I was commissioned to document the Indiana Pacers premium experiences.  They want to give fans looking to purchase tickets a sense of the available spaces…

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Anything for the Shot
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Anything for the Shot

September 20, 2017March 8, 2018

In 1948, Nat Fein shot this photo of Babe Ruth shortly before his death. Photographers were gathering together to get a shot of Ruth’s face,…

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IHSAA Boys Basketball Finals
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IHSAA Boys Basketball Finals

March 29, 2017March 30, 2017

Basketball in March.  It’s crazy.  Insanity.  Lunacy.  Delirium, even.  There should be a term that applies specifically to this phenomenon.  Any ideas? With all of…

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Carmel Basketball
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Carmel Basketball

March 2, 2017March 14, 2017

Time for high school boys basketball playoffs in Indiana.  Here are some photos from Carmel’s 53-36 win over Westfield last night to get you hooked….

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Electric Atmosphere
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Electric Atmosphere

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017

When a game is packed with fans, there’s an energy that undeniably affects how the players play, especially when a close game gets down to the…

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Wrestling
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Wrestling

February 21, 2017

You know wrestling is a popular sport in Indiana when the Indiana High School Athletic Association State Finals are held at an NBA arena.  This was…

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Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
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Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall

February 17, 2017

To call the new Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall at Indiana University a renovation is to greatly understate its transformative effect.  Designed by CSO Architects and built…

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15 Hours of Mountain Biking
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15 Hours of Mountain Biking

October 31, 2016

When a client needs enough photos for a two-day shoot, but day 1 gets rained out completely, it means a 15-hour, sunrise to sunset shoot….

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Improve Your Sports Photography
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Improve Your Sports Photography

March 3, 2016October 11, 2019

Usually when people ask me about getting better sports photos, the question is focused around what equipment to buy.  For this post, I want to…

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The Whole Story
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The Whole Story

June 15, 2015June 15, 2015

Whatever I’m shooting, my aim is to document all aspects I see, so viewers will have the most complete picture possible of people in a…

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