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Photographing BYU Football Games

12/2/2021

 
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BYU tight end Isaac Rex celebrates a touchdown catch. I feel very lucky to have been in the right place at the right time to capture this moment.
When I was a kid I had a great affinity for sports – especially football. I remember in 5th grade when I brought a spare shirt to school for picture day so I could be free to dirty myself playing football during recess. I remember picking out an Arizona Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald jersey for Christmas and being so excited to wear it all the time. I remember enthusiastically watching Super Bowl XLII (42) on TV, cheering on the New York Giants as they ended the New England Patriot's near-perfect season winning record. ​I remember my dad taking me to all the BYU home football games for the 2009 football season and hearing the roars of LaVell Edwards Stadium.
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As evident from my crazy hair, this is the 5th grade photo I described where I brought an extra shirt to wear for my picture so I could go all-out at recess playing football and not have to worry about looking dirty for my picture.
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Skiing at age 11 in my new Larry Fitzgerald jersey (11 was a good number that year).
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Left: David Tyree becomes an NFL legend making an impossible catch to set up the game-winning drive for the Giants. Right: Giants quarterback Eli Manning cheers at the success of his team, and is later given the MVP award for the game.
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Max Hall led the '09 BYU football team to an 11-2 overall season record and ended the season ranked no. 12 in both the Coaches and AP polls.
Fast forward to 2021, I'm a photography student at Brigham Young University who just got hired to work as a photographer with BYU's school newspaper, The Daily Universe. Beyond standard responsibilities to make photographs accompanying news articles, ​I learn one of the bigger responsibilities of the photographer is to shoot all big sporting events, which of course included football!
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This image came from my second BYU football game I photographed. I always hauled that big lens around at every game because I would get most of my best shots with it.
Below are all of my favorite photographs I've taken of the BYU football team in action for the 2021 season. I feel so lucky and blessed to have been a part of it.

​Go Cougs!
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    Dallin Conroy Wilks has a great love for photography - and another love for blogging his thoughts regarding photography and other subjects. He is a graduate from Brigham Young University and strives for life-long learning through his writing and photography explorations.
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