Another random group of pictures
Oklahoma's Tom Wort (21) reacts after hitting Florida's Clint Trickett (9) during a college football game between the University of Oklahoma (OU) and Florida State (FSU) at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
I learned more than I thought possible about blimps and zeppelins during an assignment earlier this week with Staff Writer Matt Dinger. We got a close look at the Farmers Airship as it visited Oklahoma City as part of history’s longest zeppelin tour. You can read Matt’s story by clicking here.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen some of the other photo galleries we’ve publish in the last week, follow some of these links. Bryan Terry turned in some nice pictures from the OU Sooners’ game against Florida State. We’ve been out to the Oklahoma State Fair a few times and if you still haven’t seen pictures from Oklahoma State’s game against Tulsa then click here.
A crew member walks toward The Farmers Airship after it landed at Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City on Monday, September 19, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
OSU's Justin Blackmon (81) is stopped after a catch by Alan Dock (11) and Marco Nelson (20) of TU in the first quarter during a college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane (TU) at H.A. Chapman Stadium in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday morning, Sept. 18, 2011. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
Nita Haynie, a client at the Oklahoma Foundation for the Disabled, laughs as she is wheeled under a limbo stick by Joy Woods during a Luau for clients and their parents or care-givers at the Oklahoma Oklahoma Foundation for the Disabled in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
The Coalgate band marches during band day at the 2011 Oklahoma State Fair at State Fair Park in Oklahoma City, OK, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Spring Football
Brandon Willliams (23) is tackled by Aaron Colvin (14) during the University of Oklahoma Sooner's (OU) spring football game at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Norman, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Staff Photographers from The Oklahoman covered spring football games today at OU’s Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman and at OSU’s Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. You can click these links to see more images of the Sooners and the Cowboys, or to read more about the games.
OSU's Justin Blackmon (81) misses a touchdown catch as Colby Ellis (49) defends during the Orange/White spring football game for the Oklahoma State University Cowboys at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, April 16, 2011. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Best of 2010-The rest of the months
John Pfeiffer, of Pfeiffer Angus Farms, walks across a dried up part of one of his ponds on his ranch near Orlando, Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Photo by David McDaniel, The Oklahoman
I’ve strung this out too long. I think that by Jan. 12, 2011, we should be looking at pictures from this year and not looking backwards. So this is it. A colossal blog post featuring some of our best pictures from the last four months of 2010. Click on all the links to past posts, galleries and slideshows and you’ll be all caught up on 2010.
Roderick Norwood Jr., 2, trick-or-treats, Saturday Oct. 30, 2010, in the Mesta Park Neighborhood in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
We’re always busy in the fall with high school and college football, RedHawks baseball, feature stories and the usual newspaper assignments. We produced slideshows about Route 66 Bowl, Moore High School football Head Coach Scott Myers, and Kody Turner, a high school football player who died after football practice in September. Sarah Phipps worked on a story about Oklahoma City Firefighter Kent Collins, that was published in October, and there’s a nice slideshow about the 2010 Bedlam football game.
OSU's Justin Blackmon (81) catches a pass for a touchdown in front of Aaron Williams (4) of Texas in the second quarter during the college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Texas Longhorns (UT) at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, Saturday, November 13, 2010. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
James Bowman gets a hug from one of his caregivers, Sherry Spangler, at a home he shares with roommates in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Our interns, Miranda Grubbs and Mitch Alcala left us at the end of July. We wrote about their pictures, and we had some other interesting posts toward the end of 2010. Some of our memorable pictures and posts include Welcome to the South Pole, OSU and OU pictures just days before Bedlam, 5 years at The Oklahoman, Happy Halloween, the State Fair, black mud and minnows, the most photographed rainbow of the year, Bryan Terry’s pictures, and Of Light and Shade.
Visitors to the Oklahoma State Fair ride the tram on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
School principal JoAnn Simpson-Miller talks with a distraught Jorge Gonzales, 5, as he sits on the floor outside his kindergarten classroom at Sunset Elementary School on the first day of classes in Edmond Thursday, August 19, 2010. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
A member of the Oklahoma State marching band keeps playing while walking through praying members of the Oklahoma football team during the Bedlam college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
If you haven’t already, click here to see our best news and feature pictures of the year or click here to see our best sports photos of the year. We publish new photo galleries everyday at this site and this page holds an archive of our slideshows going back to Feb. 1, 2008.
I looked through thousands of pictures from 2010 to write about them for Alternate Crop. If we had a Photographer of the Year Award at The Oklahoman, I would nominate for Bryan Terry. His name is the only one that made the final edit during every month of the Best of 2010 series. He routinely brings back compelling pictures from a wide variety of assignments. In 2010 he he got nice images everything from Division 1 college football and NBA basketball to junior rodeos, candlelight vigils and neighborhood picnics. If such an award actually existed, Bryan would likely received a refurbished soccer trophy from 1984 during a banquet that would be held on my back porch.
So, that’s it for 2010. We’ll get back to concentrating on our newest pictures and multimedia projects.
-John Clanton
An Alamo Bowl win and plenty of galleries
OSU head coach Mike Gundy hands the trophy to Mathies Long (35), Bo Bowling (9) and Jordan Taormina (63) after the Valero Alamo Bowl college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Arizona Wildcats at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday, December 29, 2010. OSU won, 36-10. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
Staff Photographers Nate Billings and Sarah Phipps travelled to Texas to photograph the Oklahoma State Cowboys play the Arizona Wildcats in the Valero Alamo Bowl. Because of the late start and early deadlines at the paper, there were plenty of pictures you may not have seen in your morning paper. Click here to check out all of the pictures Nate and Sarah turned in.
It’s New Year’s Eve, so we’re out photographing the Oklahoma City Thunder, The Flaming Lips and Opening Night here in Oklahoma City, so there will be plenty more galleries coming soon.
OSU's Ugo Chinasa (91) sacks Arizona quarterback Nick Foles (8) with the help of OSU's Jamie Blatnick (50) in the first quarter during the Valero Alamo Bowl college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Arizona Wildcats at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday, December 29, 2010. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
Biletnikoff Award Winner Justin Blackmon
Oklahoma State University’s Biletnikoff Award Winner Justin Blackmon leave the field after the Bedlam game against Oklahoma University. The sophomore had a great season edging out his rival to the south Ryan Broyles to with the honor of the nations best receiver. He has come a long was since I first took a photo of him back in 2007 when he was still in school at Plainview High School. -Chris Landsberger
Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon walks off the field after the Cowboys 47-41 loss to Oklahoma during the Bedlam college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Plainview High School wide receiver Justin Blackmon poses for a photo at Plainview High School on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, in Ardmore, Okla. Blackmon is producing huge stats on the field this season, and hopes to get noticed by Division 1A colleges. By CHRIS LANDSBERGER, The Oklahoman
