DALLAS COWBOYS 2007

Record 13-3 not too shabby! But ouch, the playoff loss to the Giants.

Oh well, a new year brings new enthusiasm and I thought I’d like to take one last look at the 13-3 team that I was fortunate enough to shoot one Saturday last July.

This year training camp got moved to CA thanks to the (idiot) schedulers @ the Alamodome. So sadly I will not be able to shoot the Cowboys this year. That’s ok, maybe during the time this year I can figure out how to land VIP access next year…thereby shooting from the field instead of the stands!

 

 

A friend and I recently had the opportunity to visit the Cowboys at the Alamodome for one of their Saturday morning practices. WOW, It was great! Sure, a lot of the action was too far away to get very many good pictures but the ones I got were pretty cool considering! Plus, we were in the 2nd row so we had a fairly clear shot of the field, coaches and players notwithstanding.

The practice lasted about 2 hours and since we are part of the TrueBlue fanclub we got to sit in a special section during the practice and even go onto the field for about 15 minutes.

Going onto the field was perfect timing, we really lucked out. During that time that we were there, the receivers were running deep patterns towards us. It afforded me a few choice opportunities to get some great shots of the receivers and CB’s going one on one.

During the 2nd portion of our time in the end zone we got to see the QB’s doing 5 step drops. We were all of maybe 10 yards from Tony Romo and Brad Johnson.

Here are a few from the first portion of team drills.

Secondary pass drills, not sure who the players are here.

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Roy Williams and Keith Davis. Keith having signed with Miami in the off season (who will be missed on special teams), and Roy entering a make or break year. Hey, if Roy plays well, he finally might earn his way to the Pro-Bowl and not just get there on name recognition like the last 2 years!

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Even if they are not going full speed, this still look like it would hurt!

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Miles Austin catching a pass on Quincy Butler

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Not sure if this is Austin again, making a break on the ball; Terence Newman and Aaron Glen looking on.

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Well, with the recent additions to our family (twin girls) this may very have been our last airplane flight for a good 3 or 4 years. Traveling with one baby was hard enough in and of itself. SO I am glad/fortunate that I took this video while I had the chance! :)

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On to the video…I actually have a new Targus Grypton Tripod now, I might have been able to use this on the flight to get smoother video and longer durations. As it was I hand held all of this time-lapse which at times was 10mins to 30mins at a time! I think the longest clip was at least 20mins, not sure if it was an entire 30mins. Needless to say it is very hard to hold something that still for that long!

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Finally! A great video service that does not lego-ify my timelapse videos. YT is the worst, MC&MySp are better but Clipmoon from what I can tell blows them out of the water!

So here we are on our vacation…let me tell you, filming a time lapse from the seat of your airline seat is no small feat. Every single bump (and believe me there are hundreds if not thousands of them), are amplified due to the timelapse process.

But at least the video quality is great!!!

Bare with me as I migrate these TLV’s.

A lot of the dialogue of this particular entry will not make sense. The joke being it took me forever to post this video. It might have served me a lot better to have posted it before Christmas! Oh well, while timing might be everything, at least I have something to work on!
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I know what you are thinking – why so soon after Christmas would I post this??
But then you remind yourself that it’s been 2 months since most people put up their Cmas tree.

Hey, maybe I was busy taking down the Cmas tree…did that ever cross your mind??

That’s what I thought :-)