Category Archives: Sports

Independence Day Pow Wow

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: July 7, 2009

On Saturday Americans from all backgrounds celebrated their independence. Planned into the weekend full of barbecues and fireworks, Wildhorse Resort and Casino in Pendleton, Oregon hosted their 15th annual Pow Wow. Other Fourth of July celebrations nearer to Walla Walla took precedence in Sunday’s print edition but I came back with several additional images I [...]

Also posted in Feature Art, News, Pendleton, Scenic, Un-Published, Uncategorized, walla walla | Tagged Arizona, California, casino, Cayuse, Chinle, contest, dance, Darrel Abrahamson, drum, fancy dancer, feathers, fourth of july, Gary Olney, golden age, history, holiday, independence, Independence Day, Lame Deer, Lee Sorrelhorse, Montana, Native American, Pendleton, Perry Thompson, Peter Joe Olney, Pow Wow, resort, Sacramento, sovereignty, traditional, Umatilla, Washington, White Swan, Wildhorse | 4 Comments

Friday Follies #5

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: May 22, 2009

Like “choose your own adventure” books… it’s another nameless, faceless, story-less photo for your Friday. Choose your own adventure, make up your own story and go with it.

Also posted in Feature Art, friday follies, random, walla walla | Tagged blue, choose your own adventure, field, follies, friday, friday follies, pole vault, random, shadow, track, vault | Leave a comment

Rolling Green Again

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: April 27, 2009

I’m an old green mountain bike. I’m scratched, dented and dirty but still schlep my owner wherever he points me. For “Get to Work Green” day I had to schlep a camera mounted to my seat post as well. It took one picture every minute throughout the day to produce this little time-lapse slideshow. If [...]

Also posted in Feature Art, Scenic, random, walla walla | Tagged Barbie, battery, bike, get to work green, green, mountain, point & shoot, schlep, time-lapse, walla walla, wife | 3 Comments

Soaring, like an Eagle

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: April 3, 2009

I spent all day photographing the annual Carnival of Speed track and field event at McLoughlin High School in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Track is great to shoot. There’s always something different going on and photographers can shoot from almost any angle. The possibilities are endless. So much so that sometimes focusing on one thing at a [...]

Also posted in Un-Published | Tagged art, athleticism, Blue Devils, Bulldogs, Cardinals, Carnival of Speed, Dayton, DeSales, eagle, field, float, grace, Grizzlies, Helix, high jump, Irish, Knights, MacHi, McLoughlin, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, photograph, Pioneers, Prescott, soar, Tigerscots, track, track and field, waitsburg, Walla Walla High School, Weston McEwen, WWHS, WWVA | 2 Comments

Multimedia Storytelling

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: March 31, 2009

Sorry for the long delay in posts to the blog. I’ve been working on adding multimedia content and spent the last week at UC Berkeley as a Knight Digital Media Fellow learning about new ways to produce and display journalism and storytelling. It was time extremely well spent and I will be posting more about [...]

Also posted in Feature Art, News, Scenic, Un-Published, Uncategorized, Walla Walla Valley Life, walla walla | Tagged aerial, agriculture, American flag, asphalt, barn, baseball, basketball, Buet, chalk art, child, Christmas, dog climbs tree, election, fair, farm, fellowship, fire, fireball, flags, gang, garden, hair, holiday, horse racing, hot air balloon, Iraq, journalism, kiss, Knight Digital Media Center, lightning, lights, marijuana, multimedia, National Guard, Obama, photos, playground, race, restraint, ride, slideshow, snow, soccer, Soundslides, storytelling, street, stretch armstrong, tire, UC Berkeley, UCB, Union-Bulletin, walla walla, water, wheat | 1 Comment