I think about 4 pm tonight I can relax a bit. I was talking to a fellow photographer this morning at breakfast who agreed that the easiest part of the job will be on Monday during the game.
Today I will be heading out to Oregon’s practice and then attempting to hunt down Oregon fans from the mid-valley.
Yesterday was Media Day. A very organized, but chaotic event that started around 8 AM waiting for Auburn to arrive and then two hours later shooting Oregon at the event. You can see a photo gallery of this in the Democrat-Herald photo galleries.
After media day I started calling numbers from the list of mid-valley Duck fans in hopes to find some enjoying the activies in the Phoenix area. None of the fans on my list that were scheduled to be in on Friday were available so I went down to the fan area at the Budlight Fiesta and started asking Oregon fans where they were from. Within an hour I found the Danielsons originally from Sweet Home. They are included in our page one story in today’s Democrat-Herald.
Former Sweet Home resident Katie Danielson plays foos ball with her dad Ron Danileson. (Mark Ylen/Democrat-Herald)
I ran into several other Oregon fans some from as far away as northern Montana. I have uploaded a photo gallery of fans that I will continually update throughout the weekend.
When I arrived in Phoenix my first task was to get my credential. My first credential was not too successful. As I was walking out of the media area I realized that they had misspelled the Democrat-Herald.
