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Northwest Region Football

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local, Sports

I covered the Northwest Region quarterfinals yesterday at Liberty High School. Because of all the bad weather, the games had been moved from Friday night to Saturday, which made working on a day off a bit more palatable. The first game, Colonial Forge vs Franklin County was one of the better games I have seen […]



Joshua Tree

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

A few weeks ago I went to visit my buddy Rob out in San Diego. We were headed to Festival 8, the big Phish-fest in Indio, to meet up with more friends and hear some good music. The night before the festival though we decided to head out to Joshua Tree National Park as there […]



Recent field hockey

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Nov 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local, Sports

You’ve gotta love nice, fall afternoon light. Now if I could just apply that light to some football…



Politicians

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Nov 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local, Politics

This picture is pretty dated considering Creigh Deeds lost his bid for governor of Virginia a couple weeks ago but I wanted to put it up here anyway. He was shaking hands at a high school football game and I like how he is isolated amid this group of people. He seemed a bit ill-at-ease […]



Recent Redskins

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Nov 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local


The Value of Journalism

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Oct 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

“…those giant presses and barrels of ink and fleets of delivery trucks were never what made newspapers invaluable. What gave newspapers their value was the mission and promise of journalism—the hope that someone was getting paid to wade into the daily tide of manure, sort through its deliberate lies and cunning half-truths, and tell a […]



Walking in the Woods

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

I started out the day at Fort A.P. Hill working on a story about environmental stewardship on the base. Jason Applegate, who I discovered is a fellow Penn Stater, took me to a few spots on post including a grove of bald cypress, apparently the farthest inland grove in Virginia, an eagle nest, a low […]



Redskins vs. Bucs

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

I covered the Redskins win over the 0-4 Buccaneers yesterday at FedEx. Going into halftime, I was pretty sure the Bucs were about to snap their losing streak but I guess Jim Zorn worked some kind of Zen mind trick in the locker room and it turned into a game a play into the third […]



It’s a ‘W’ but just about the ugliest I’ve seen!

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

I covered the Redskins/Rams game at FedEx Field on Sunday. It was an ugly game; the ‘fans’ started booing their own team fairly early on and there were a bunch of empty seats but the light was ok, particularly if you were working from the St. Louis sideline. Not to mention it was a little […]



Quick portrait

By From http://blog.mikemorones.com • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Just a quick and dirty portrait for the sports section. This was taken for the Sidelines feature in the sports section. As is too often the case, I had no idea about the the athlete’s name, school or sport just that Sports informed me that ‘a sidelines is coming in.’  So, in absence of any […]