Bedlam Football Overhead
Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon (81) celebrates with the crowd following the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and the University of Oklahoma Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
During the celebration after yesterday’s Bedlam football game, Bryan Terry took a different angle from the rest of our team and photographed from the roof of Boone Pickens Stadium. He took some shots of the Spirit Walk from up high before the game as well. Here’s some of Bryan’s pictures from overhead.
Also, check out this gallery with other pictures from The Oklahoman of OSU’s 44-10 win over OU.
Oklahoma State fans rush the field after the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and the University of Oklahoma Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma State fans celebrate following the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
The green arms holding a camera off to the left in the above photo belong to me, by the way.
Oklahoma State's Brandon Weeden (3) celebrates with fans following the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and the University of Oklahoma Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma State fans celebrate following the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma State's Justin Gilbert (4) celebrates with fans following the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
A stretcher is passed down to the field as Oklahoma State's Brandon Weeden (3) makes his way out of the crowd following the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and the University of Oklahoma Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
The OSU team makes their way to the stadium during the Spirit Walk before the Bedlam college football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and the University of Oklahoma Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
And remember to check out more Bedlam football pictures in this gallery.
-Nate Billings
OSU Memorial Service
Oklahoma State women's interim basketball coach Jim Littell lowers his head as he speaks during the memorial service for Oklahoma State head basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Stillwater, Okla. The two were killed in a plane crash along with former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula while on a recruiting trip in central Arkansas last Thursday. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
On Monday, Oklahoma State held a memorial service for head women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke, assistant coach Miranda Serna, former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula who were killed in a plane crash the week before.
View photos from the service here.
Below are links to our other galleries related to the crash:
Alex Budke comforts his mother Shelley as she wipes a tear from her face while with her son Brett and daughter Sara during the memorial service for Oklahoma State head basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Stillwater, Okla. The two were killed in a plane crash along with former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula while on a recruiting trip in central Arkansas last Thursday. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
ormer Oklahoma State women's basketball player Megan Byford is overcome by emotion during the memorial service for Oklahoma State head basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Stillwater, Okla. The two were killed in a plane crash along with former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula while on a recruiting trip in central Arkansas last Thursday. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Texas A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair signs the memory banner during the memorial service for Oklahoma State head basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Stillwater, Okla. The two were killed in a plane crash along with former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula while on a recruiting trip in central Arkansas last Thursday. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Coach Kurt Budkey's orange blazer hangs from a seat on the sideline during the memorial service for Oklahoma State head basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Stillwater, Okla. The two were killed in a plane crash along with former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula while on a recruiting trip in central Arkansas last Thursday. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
Members of the Oklahoma State family join arm in arm to sing the alma mater during the memorial service for Oklahoma State head basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Stillwater, Okla. The two were killed in a plane crash along with former state senator Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula while on a recruiting trip in central Arkansas last Thursday. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman
-Nate Billings
OKC Boathouse District at dusk
Chesapeake Finish Line Tower at dusk on the Oklahoma River, Friday, November 11, 2011. Photo by Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman
Doug Hoke made some beautiful photos of Oklahoma City’s growing Boathouse District last Friday evening before a society assignment he had there.
Check out more of his photos from the Boathouse District in this gallery.
Devon Boathouse at dusk on the Oklahoma River, Friday, November 11, 2011. Photo by Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman
-Nate Billings
Veterans Day in Oklahoma
John Marshall High School Air Force JROTC Kahlil Denson presents the colors during the 45th Infantry Museum's Veterans Day ceremony in Oklahoma City , Friday November, 11, 2011. Photo by Steve Gooch
More important than being 11-11-11, Friday was Veterans Day. Across the country, communities honored our veterans, and photographers hoped color guard members would be wearing polished helmets at the ceremonies (it always makes a pretty picture).
Thank you, veterans. We appreciate your service and sacrifice.
Here are more of our Veterans Day photos.
William D. Trumbly, Norman, stands at the Cleveland County Veterans Memorial wearing his World War II uniform with his Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals during the Veterans Day ceremony in Norman Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Trumbly was a 1st Lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry in Europe and was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman
Retired Air Force SSgt. Brown Hudson (left) and Dr. Calvin Turpin, retired Army PFC, salute during the presentation of the colors, as the University of Central Oklahoma Veteran Support Alliance honors veterans with a ceremony on Veterans Day at UCO's Plunkett Park in Edmond, OK, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman
-Nate Billings
Oklahoma earthquakes
Tina Hackbarth hugs her daughter, Mercedes Oslin, 17, when Oslin began crying as she walked through the damage in her grandparents' dining room. An eathquake late Saturday night caused extensive damage to the two-story ranch-style home of Joseph and Mary Reneau near the community of Sparks in Lincoln County. Many of their belongings were damaged earlier Saturday when another earthquake struck the same area. Hackbarth is the Reneaus' daughter. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Most of you have probably heard about the recent earthquakes in Oklahoma (or just felt them). We don’t have much experience covering earthquakes in this state, especially since most of the ones we have had caused very little damage that is visual. Jim Beckel’s search for visuals on Saturday to illustrate an early-morning earthquake led him to a couple who would suffer damage from earthquakes twice in two days.
While trying to get a visual angle after the tremor early Saturday morning, Beckel found some researchers with the OU School of Geology and Geophysics placing instruments in the ground in Lincoln County near the epicenter. The researchers led him to Mary and Joseph Reneau, who had some of their china and keepsakes broken in Saturday morning’s earthquake of 4.7 magnitude. Jim didn’t expect to be back at the Reneau’s home the next day, but that’s what happened after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred Saturday night. This time there was extensive damage to the Reneau’s home.
To see more photos from the Reneau’s home and other damage in the state , click here.
Homeowner Joseph Reneau, third from left, shows friends the damage caused to his home's family room after the chimney toppled onto the roof. An earthquake late Saturday night caused extensive damage to the two-story ranch-style home of Joseph and Mary Reneau near the community of Sparks in Lincoln County. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Graduate student Gabriel Mattei digs beneath a box held up by Katie Keranen, an assistant professor at the OU School of Geology and Geophysics, as the two place a seismometer and this recording device into the ground on the property of Joseph and Mary Reneau Saturday afternoon, Nov. 5. , 2011. The pair are accompanied by Austin Holland, left, a research seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey. They are placing the devices on the Reneau property after an earthquake rattled the area in the area in the early morning hours Saturday. The Reneaus were awakened around 2:15 a.m. when their house shook and items began falling off the walls and from shelves and cabinets inside their two-story brick ranch-style home in rural Lincoln County, about six miles northwest of Prague. Holland placed the quake's epicenter within two to three miles of the Reneau home. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
-Nate Billings
One last post
Pastor Eddie Gallegos prays with a member of the congregation at his church in south Oklahoma City. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
When he was 13, a friend put a tattoo of a spider web on Eddie Gallegos’s left hand. Back then, he was a member of Gran Barrio Central (GBC), and went by the name ‘Spider.’ Today, Pastor Eddie has a small, but devoted congregation in a borrowed sanctuary in south Oklahoma City. Eddie, who leads emotional, song-filled services, delivers his sermons in Spanish and English as paces at the front of the church. He’s the son of a preacher, a husband and a father who says that he accepted God’s plan for his life while sitting in prison.
Pastor Eddie Gallegos at his church in south Oklahoma City. Gallegos is a former member of the GBC and the son of a preacher. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Pastor Eddie Gallegos delivers an emotional sermon at La Roca Community Church at his church in south Oklahoma City. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
These are a few of my favorite pictures of Pastor Eddie and his church. I was slow to get these pictures into Merlin, which I regret, but I wanted to publish them before I leave The Oklahoman. After six years of taking pictures, making slideshows and videos and writing for Alternate Crop, I’m leaving the newspaper after today. I’ll continue to work in multimedia, just in a different place.
In six years I’ve put a modest 10,657 pictures into merlin. I’ve written about a few of my favorites before. So, I’ll sign off of Alternate Crop by reminding both of you that you can click on any image featured on this blog to see a larger view. You can always see photo galleries by clicking here or you can watch some of the slideshows by clicking here.
-John Clanton
Bill Bratwurst and images from Halloweens past
Racks of Halloween masks await local goblins who will spend Halloween dressed as witches, devils or clowns. Photographed Oct. 12, 1973. Archive Photo by Bob Albright
File cabinets on the 11th floor are full of faded and torn folders and decades worth of alphabetized images from staff photographers at The Oklahoman and The Oklahoma City Times. I looked through the images filed under ‘Halloween’ and pulled a few of my favorites.
The cutlines on the Halloween images are printed as they ran in the newspaper, or how it was written on the back of the print.
You can see more images from current staff photographers at The Oklahoman by clicking here.
Billy Kort cavorts as Billy Bratwurst at the Halloween Masquerade Ball. Photographed on Oct. 30, 1979. Archive Photo by Todd James
The skeleton is out of the closet and ready for a bone-chilling Halloween night at this haunted house southwest of Edmond. Little ghosts and goblins are expected to be out in force Monday evening, the time Mayor A.C. Caplinger has designated as official trick or treat night for Edmond youngsters. Someone hung this skinny fellow in the window of this abandoned house to tickle the funny bones of passing motorists. Photographed on Oct. 26, 1977. Archive photo by an unknown photographer.
Dean Johnson prepares for Halloween with a new "Great Goblin" face, with the assistance of Claudia Ostrom. The elaborate mask, one of several that will dot the streets Saturday night, is found at Hazel's Costumes, 1515 N. Portland. Photographed on Oct. 22, 1982. Archive Photo by Renee Lynn
"Pufnstuff" (Mrs. R.J. Riley) welcomes all youngsters to their Haunted House. She holds cowboy Steve Reimer, 6, by the hand. Waiting to enter are Amy Lockard, 9, and Mrs. Harry L. Deupree Jr. who, as one of the guides, is dressed in a pumpkin costume. Photographed on Oct. 25, 1970. Archive photo by unknown photographer.
Halloween, Oct. 26, 1967. Archive Photo by Austin Traverse
Monster Rally presented a frightful sight Wednesday, as students of Harmony Elementary School, 1537 NE 24, donned costumes for their annual all-school Halloween festival on the school grounds. Spacemen and robots joined traditional monsters, ghosts and witches for the fun. No horrible spells were cast, but the young goblins tossed coins into a witch's steaming cauldron for the Red Cross. Photographed on Oct. 27, 1965. Archive photo by Bob Albright
-John Clanton
Rain-soaked football
Ron Millican stands under an umbrella near the door of the maintenance barn at C.B. Speegle Stadium in Oklahoma City before the high school football game between Del City and U.S. Grant on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Here are a couple of pictures from Thursday night’s rain-soaked football games. In addition to high school football, the Bronchos from the University of Central Oklahoma played Black Hills State at UCO in Edmond.
You can see more pictures from Thursday night’s game by clicking here.
UCO's Terrance Davis (1) is tackled by Black Hills' Joey Brown during the college game between the University of Central Oklahoma and Black Hills State at Wantland Stadium in Edmond, Okla., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
A statue for Austin Haley
Renee Haley hugs a life-sized statue of her deceased son, Austin Haley, as she holds her 6-month-old daughter, Mikayla Haley, after the statue was unveiled at the Haley family's home in Noble, Okla., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. At left is Jack Haley, Renee Haley's husband and father of Austin Haley, Mikayla Haley and the couple's two other children. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
Five-year-old Austin Haley was killed by a Noble police officer’s stray bullet in August of 2007. A statue created by a local artist was unveiled at the Haley family’s home in Noble on what would have been Austin’s tenth birthday, Oct. 24, 2011. Nate Billings photographed the ceremony and made a touching picture of the statue and Austin’s mother.
You can read the most recent story about Austin and watch a video about the statue by clicking here.
Also, if you haven’t lately, take a look at our photo gallery page, including the galleries from OU’s loss to Texas Tech and OSU’s win over Missouri in Columbia.
-John Clanton
A defense-free basketball exhibition
J.D. Sims (center) of Lawton, Gaylan Towle (right), of Edmond, and other fans watch Kevin Durant walk onto the court during the US Fleet Tracking Basketball Invitational at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Kevin Durant, a few of his Thunder teammates and other locked-out NBA players, put on an exhibition game at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City on Sunday night. Here are a few of the pictures from the game that ended with Kevin Durant and the White Team ahead of Carmelo Anthony and the Blue team by a score of 176-171.
You can see more pictures from the game or read stories by Darnell Mayberry and John Rohde.
Russell Westbrook slams the ball during the US Fleet Tracking Basketball Invitational at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Michael Beasley (right) puts up a shot in front of Kevin Durant during the US Fleet Tracking Basketball Invitational at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. The White Team defeated the Blue Team 176-171. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
