Da Bears!

This past Tuesday and Wednesday I was able to make it to the Chicago Bears training camp in Bourbonnais, Illinois. The weather was perfect as it was in the high 70's and ended in the low 80's. Bright sunlight which is usually not the best of photography, at least portraiture, but really nice for sports as you want the shinny things to be shinny.

Below is 26 year old 6'-3" Quarterback Jay Cutler from

Vanderbilt University driving at the line while working

on patterns with this particular line-up.

Here is Cutler handing off to 29 year old 5'-11"

Fullback Jason McKie from Temple.

One of the practice areas simply had a quarter back

passing to a running receiver with a "defense man"

having his hands up for distraction. Here is 26 year

old 5'-11" Wide Receiver Devin Hester out of

Miami catching one of the passes.

Below is 30 year old, 5'9" Wide Receiver

Rashied Davis out of San Jose State trying

to catch up to a way over thrown ball.

Caught in the "act" below is 6'-1", 26 year old

Quarter Back Brett Basanez from Northwestern.

Punting into a huge net (out of frame) that was probably

forty feet high is 26 year old 6'-4" Punter Richmond McGee

out of Texas. There was a large round target high up on the

netting used to aim for a pseudo field goal.

The next two images are of lineman working the rush.

I was unable to get good numbers on them but in the

second image 23 year old 5'-9" Corner Back

Trumaine McBride from Old Miss doing what he does.

The shot of Devin Hester below is from day two where

the team was having a scrimmage in one of the

practice fields at Olivet Nazarene University.

The image was very busy and quite a ways away. I was shooting my 40D with the EF 70-200 F/2.8 IS L lens with a 1.4 teleconverter to reach just a little further. In order to really spotlight Devin Hester I desaturated the background just a bit in order to maintain some color on the coaches.

I think that is the most images I have put up on one post. Hope you enjoyed them.

Cya later... Doug