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An estimated 16000 fans visited an “open house” tour of the University of Michigan’s newly expanded Michigan Stadium football facilities, featuring two matching five-story towers that loom over the original bowl, adding chair-backed premium seating, and over 80 luxury suites. The “Big House” will be rededicated on Sept 4, 2010 at the season opener against Connecticut when it will reclaim the title of the largest stadium in the United States for college and/or professional football, with a seating capacity of 109,901.

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Lots of media sources are compiling their Best of 2009 and even Best of the Decade galleries as we fast approach 2010. I thought I’d join in the fun by putting together my own favorite photos i’ve taken this year. Its a good exercise for any photographer to do, giving you the opportunity to reflect on your work in the past year and how you may learn to improve from them.

So, follow the jump link to see my Photos of the Year from 2009. They’re not necessarily the “best” images in terms of execution or action pictured, but were certainly what I thought were cool or funny or interesting. The pictures are presented chronologically through 2009.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

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This past Saturday saw Michigan State claim a second consecutive victory over the Michigan Wolverines, an achievement last seen during the Johnson Administration. Little Brother tripped up Blue. Gotta love the in-state rivalries.

Forcier gave everything he had in the downpour

I shot the game this time not for the AP, but a sports magazine. So, since my shots won’t be published for quite a while, I thought i’d share some of my favs. They’re a lot less of on-field action and more of the atmosphere surrounding this wet, wild game. Enjoy!

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As I’d said when i started this feature, the only true reason I take pictures is to make computer desktop wallpapers. Had some nice success recently, so I added more to the collection on this site.

You’re Welcome.

Check out fresh Michigan Football Fall Camp:

Michigan Football Fall Camp 2009

And the awesomeness that is Tiger Woods, clenching what was probably the last ever Buick Open (sad):

Tiger Woods at 2009 Buick Open

(More in the two galleries when you click on the above pics)

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So Rodrigo suggested that I should put my old PhotoMechanic tutorials on YouTube. After much trouble trying to covert them (swf format) to mpeg4, i was able to combine 4 parts of the old tutorial into one 10 min YouTube clip. I’ll update the links on my Tutorials section now so you guys can watch these in full Youtube glory.

Be sure to use full-screen, because the vids are hi-def and scale well. Enjoy and comments welcomed!

[Watch on YouTube]

PS:

I found another loose clip (part 5 of old tutorial) that’s on YouTube now too. This one covers using Variables in PhotoMechanic:

[Watch on YouTube]

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