Aaron Paul Vogel

I spent the day helping out the other Sac Bee video shooter Andy Alfaro at the Sacramento Kings media day. It was a crazy, busy day! We arrived at the training center in Arco Arena around 12:30 in the afternoon to setup our lights and backdrop. An hour later we were ready to sit and wait for the players to show up. It was an interesting scene with easily two dozen different media outlets in attendance. One wall was covered with 3 different green screen setups, another with various photographers' dyna-lites and backdrops. With a half hour before the players arrival I took the opportunity to take a second camera to interview Manny (who was also there shooting and helping with sound) and Andy about what we was going on; kind of a behind the scenes thing.

This is a video I did to accompany a written piece about the Real McCoy ferry's pending retirement.

I feel I should redo the voice over and the FLV compression looks horrible.. but a friend wanted to see it. So here is the rough draft.

I was given the chance to photograph at Arco Arena for my first ever basketball shooting gig. Well, not so much gig as tagging along with Carl Costas, another Bee photog who was shooting for daily. Carl is an awesome guy, and would be fantastic to tag along with more often. Sadly I'm not here for photography, and I'm outta here in two days. So there goes that idea.. oh well, maybe some other day.

I just thought I'd share this photo of my new girlfriend and I at her friend's wedding last weekend with all 5 of my loyal readers. Leanne has been a good friend for at least 6 months. We spent the Nature Photography class in June/July camping and photographing a number of beautiful places together; all the while each of us were just a little too shy and too hesitant to screw up a great friendship by going out on a limb and saying something to take the relationship further.

Well, I finally missed her so much towards the end of my internship that I just had to say something when I got home. It took an all-night hang out session to finally get it out of me, but now it's out and I couldn't be happier. I think she's happy about it too. But you'll have to ask her. Here's her blog: http://bokyatbrooks.livejournal.com/