Redlights and Redeyes

we’re talking about practice? | espn the mag

May 1, 2013 by Chip

A single practice on a Tuesday doesn’t really seem that significant in the long terms of a NBA season, but it’s the little things in one given day that build up to a playoff run. ESPN the Magazine sent me to meet up with fellow photographer, Steve Boyle, to tackle one practice at the Indiana Pacers team facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, for their recent photo issue. The idea was to just go crazy covering what a playoff team does [...]

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a week with wolverines | espn the mag

March 6, 2013 by Chip

I love gigs for this client. ESPN the Magazine sent me to follow around the University of Michigan Wolverines for a week as they entered a tough stretch of games in the BIG 10. I travelled with the team on their plane and buses all day with full access to whatever we needed. Quite refreshing access, and the University was amazing with their hospitality. This was a part of the 1 Day 1 Game coverage for ESPN [...]

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go irish and/or roll tide

January 9, 2013 by Chip

Sometimes the big game is just a big dud. There are blowouts every week in sportsland, but would would expect the BCS National Championship Game to be more of a – cough – game. Not so much. My challenge is to make something out of it. I sat there after the first half with Alabama up several touchdowns up on Notre Dame and ate a terrible hot dog in a media room where all the photographers just looked depressed. All [...]

Categories: chip litherland, ESPN the Magazine, news, photography, photos, sports • Tags: bcs championship, bcs national championship, Chip Litherland, color, crimson tide, drinking, fighting irish, football fans, notre dame, south florida, sun life stadium college football, tailgate, tailgating, university of alabama

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sidelines and silhouettes

December 10, 2012 by Chip

Spent yesterday sweating profusely trying to remember what winter feels like. For this Colorado kid transplanted to Florida, these 80 degree days in December are now common unlike when I was transplanted here in 2002 – ironically, the same year the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl. Yesterday’s game was full of those players ten years removed from being at the top of their game when I was just starting. The big names were back – Jon Gruden, Keyshawn Johnson, Warren [...]

Categories: Buccaneers, chip litherland, photography, public relations photographer, sports • Tags: cheerleaders, Chip Litherland, color, Florida, red, sports, Tampa, tampa bay buccaneers

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swing state blues (and reds)

November 14, 2012 by Chip

21 hours of red, white, and blue. I spent election day cross-crossing Florida a bit for the wonderful folks at The New Yorker with a really amazing crew of photographers I had no idea I was shooting alongside (Peter van Agtmael, Kenneth Jarecke, Stanley Greene, Jon Lowenstein, Andrea Bruce, Landon Nordeman, etc.) with until I starting seeing galleries coming in on their site. Florida is a crazy state. There is no denying that any weird story that happens to pop [...]

Categories: photography, photojournalism industry, photos, politics, the new yorker, Uncategorized • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, election day 2012, Florida politics, lection, Obama, politcs, presidential election, red, romney, the new yorker, white blue

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sidelines, parking lots, and nosebleeds

October 23, 2012 by Chip

Normally when I tell people that I get to shoot for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, their first reaction is “Wow, you must have the best seat in the house!” That is true, however, I spend most of the time under-using my credential to stand right next to those who ask that very question in section 328. My job helping out the awesome photo team on game day is to capture fans like these from the last two Bucs’ home games [...]

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leica x2 in the caribbean

September 10, 2012 by Chip

Opened up a sweet little box a few weeks back to find a Leica X2 for me to review…such an amazing little camera. If you are in the market, find out my thoughts over at The Photo Brigade. For Leica X2 Review, click here. While you’re at it, pop around the site by Robert Caplin. He’s doing some great thing on The Photo Brigade – especially for those in school looking for solid resources for information on how to freelance [...]

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great scot

July 10, 2012 by Chip

Through a flood of whisky, losing golf balls, and navigating nightclubs I was able to make a couple photos during a recent trip to celebrate a fellow photog’s bachelor party in Scotland. That party happened to be in some really beautiful country in Edinburgh and the island of Islay, so it was tough to leave the camera behind. In fact, kind of impossible. One of these days, I’m going to go on vacation from my camera…but probably not. [...]

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the right coast

July 3, 2012 by Chip

Ahhh…color, beach, bikinis. I really enjoy Florida. I was recently commissioned for a five-day marketing shoot running around Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Kennedy Space Center and all the places that encompass the Space Coast to show off the potpourri of touristy things to do in the area. I knew NASA. I knew Ron Jon’s. I knew a few other things from my time coming to the area as a kid every year to visit the grandparents, but gigs like this [...]

Categories: chip litherland, photography, photos, pr, public relations photographer, sports, travel, Uncategorized • Tags: beach, bikini, Chip Litherland, cocoa beach, color, Florida, florida travel photographer, kennedy space center, marketing, NASA, satellite beach, space coast, surfing, Tourism, Travel

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the lomo roll

July 3, 2012 by Chip

ESPN the Magazine called with a strange request. Hey (paraphrasing) can you go to Miami and photograph a MLB baseball player making sushi? Umm, sure? Turns out that Miami Marlins player, Logan Morrison, was designing his own sushi roll to sell at Mr. Yum in Calle Ocho. Why? Well beyond the obvious marketing on both sides, there was a quiet and very touching reason: $4 of every $18.95 would go to American Lung Association in memory of his father. Moreover, you [...]

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