Adam Sacasa is a photojournalist with the Texarkana Gazette newspaper in Texarkana, Texas.

Friday, March 28, 2008

extra security


extra security, originally uploaded by blazinhispazian.

Everything's been hectic with the shooting threat. I think a lot of people think that someone just wanted a day off on a nice day. By the afternoon, there were already a bunch of house parties going on. Seems like people at Western just don't care about much. (not everyone but a lot)

Heard over the scanner about 2 more incidents but nothing either. I really hope they catch the people or person doing this.

Some kid over at Macomb High School had a knife but it was already taken away and he wasn't combative. Things around here just keep getting weirder. Yeah there's lots of news to cover but I'd rather have no news than some really bad news.

As for an internship, might have one over in Kansas. Thing is it's not paid so it's gonna be rough next year.

Well I'm off to the Illinois Press Photographer's Conference this weekend in Champaign.

hmph.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Climbing Wall at Horn Field Campus

Got to climb up 40 feet for this assignment. Wrote the article too. It was a little chilly but a good time. Kinda of hard climbing with the 20D on me. The wall wasn't too hard, I was just worried about bumping that camera. Need to do some better framing of the shots.

Other than that, it was my birthday yesterday too. Well Saturday. The big 23. Didn't do much, nothing crazy.

Thursday, March 20, 2008


scanner goes off....... things happen


Alright so half a house burns down and a woman gets shot. Granted the house fire was at 230am but I probably could've covered the latter had my scanner been on and I wasn't in class.

I hear sirens as I'm typing. Wonder if something else happened? Well I need some sleep.

birthday in dos dios.....

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

gonzalez, Chris_MG_5340


gonzalez, Chris_MG_5340, originally uploaded by blazinhispazian.

Well, it's all over. Both teams were eliminated in the first round. Oklahoma was nice. It's always great getting a free vacation. Only bad part was the 8 hours on the bus to and from Oklahoma.

Better luck next year.

Friday, March 07, 2008

on the bus since 1pm but had an hour dinner break a few hours ago. We passed some weird border passing a while back so I guess were in in OK

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Dear Adam,

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Your name will be on the list of media that the SID sends to the media coordinator at the site where the school will play.

Team Media List: Western Illinois

Adam Sacasa, PRINT: Photographer
Credential Type: Photography (P)

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Monday, March 03, 2008

Hey! Im just testing out my mobile blog. This should be cool.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Mitch Thompson of Western Illinois


_MG_1710, originally uploaded by blazinhispazian.

Wow. Shooting track for an entire Conference is a lot harder than I expected.

We headed out Friday morning which worked out because I didn't have any classes and managed to go to my hard Thursday ones. There was a lot of confusion but it got cleared up eventually. The bus ride was about 2 hours. We headed straight to the track where the multi's were already competing.

I was relaxed the first minutes but later realized how busy I'd be. There'd be several events happening at the same time and I'd walk around with my flashes and get whatever I could. Shooting 1 school was hard but yeesh, must have been about 7 I think. Just non stop shooting for day 1. Didn't manage to work in a lunch break until night. Lasted about 2 minutes but it was good. Just a sloppy Joe.

Turns out the place didn't have wifi so I had to email the pics when we got to the hotel. (Holiday Inn) It took FOREVER!!! Horribly slow internet there. I talked to this other photographer, Richard, who was there shooting for Southern Utah University and a newspaper out there.

I ended up missing the team dinner in the hotel while I tried to get the pics out. Sounded good. I just went over to Culvers down the street and had to buy my own.

I stayed up for a few more hours editing a few and transferring the 6 GB's of pics to the portable hard drive and because of a room shortage from rain damage, our room of 3 guys only had 1 bed so I spent the few hours of sleep on the floor with a blanket and pillow. Wasn't too fun but I managed to fall asleep. The van for a few people headed out at 7:45. I missed breakfast but grabbed some granola bars at the track.

Day 2 was rough. Just so much going on- shot put, triple jump, 60m prelims, all going on at the same time. I mostly used my flash for the field events. Oh yeah, add Pole Vault to that list of simultaneous events. Shots turnout out well. The non flash shots were all at ISO 1600 so they were pretty grainy. Not really anything great. A ton of them were out of focus too so that was really annoying.

In total, I ended up with around 2500 pictures. Today, I edited it down to around 1000 so I just need to get those sent out to the Summit League on CD-R's and I'm done with all this.

Besides that, got papers to type, resumes and cover letters too. Got to add that 1st place feature story award to that. I should go.

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writer/photojournalist. Mostly the later.