{"id":729,"date":"2009-06-03T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:46:44","slug":"behind-the-scenes-with-duke-lacrosse-at-the-2009-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/behind-the-scenes-with-duke-lacrosse-at-the-2009-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind-the-scenes with Duke Lacrosse at the 2009 Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/c.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000ZUOUns_JHb4\/s'\" alt=\"Duke midfielder Ned Crotty does an ESPN filming session.  The takes from these segments were shown during the Final Four on ESPN.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duke midfielder Ned Crotty does an ESPN filming segment.  The takes from these segments were shown during the Final Four on ESPN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over Memorial Day weekend, I was commissioned by the Duke Athletic Department to chronicle their men&#8217;s lacrosse team on their Final Four trip to Boston, MA. Duke had beaten Navy and UNC to earn a place in the Final Four. A free trip with a team is always fun, but also a lot of work. The photography is non-stop except when sleeping or downloading photos. Still, I surely can not complain, nor could I think of anything else I&#8217;d rather be doing.<\/p>\n<p>Duke did loose to Syracuse, so the trip was shorter than hoped. I can blame myself for that. I was sending a little friendly trash talk to my buddy and great IL photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamewinningphotos.com\/\">John Mecionis<\/a> (whose son played for Syracuse).<\/p>\n<p>The trip had some interesting moments. One of the more interesting moments were the times spent in the hotel lobby. While we were staying there, the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/animeboston.com\/\">Anime Boston<\/a> convention was also going on. The costumes were interesting to say the least. I see that UVA also <a href=\"http:\/\/video.insidelacrosse.com\/video\/view\/-nlcahntMAUxBMU6yTkMLA\">ran into the convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Duke team for letting a Tar Heel in their midst.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my favorite <a title=\"Duke Lacrosse Behind-the-scenes in Black and White\" href=\"http:\/\/ps.accphotos.com\/c\/peyton\/gallery\/Duke-Lacrosse-Behind-the-Scenes-in-B-W-Photography-in-2009-Final-Four\/G0000OZnPeWcJIXc\">photos in B+W and behind the scenes<\/a> that came out of Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Memorial Day weekend, I was commissioned by the Duke Athletic Department to chronicle their men&#8217;s lacrosse team on their Final Four trip to Boston, MA. Duke had beaten Navy and UNC to earn a place in the Final Four. A free trip with a team is always fun, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,16],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}