Gettin' Behind on This

My Uncle Don and Aunt Nancy, Patriots season ticket holders, were nice enough to pass along their dynamite tickets to the Pats vs. Cinci preseason game last week. I don't get to many Patriots games so it was nice to take a few pictures at Gillette. Of course, it's no Fenway Park, but I don't argue with free tickets. Here are a few of my favorites. Full gallery up @ http://jeffvalois.smugmug.com.

Next up...the Deutsche Bank Championship next Wednesday and back to Fenway for the Rays game (first time in the Monster seats...thanks Jay) on the 11th. I'm looking forward to taking a few pictures at both.

Diggin' through the Archives

I'm getting ready to head down to Foxboro with Sarah for tonight's Patriots preseason game vs. the Bengals. Of course, the camera's coming with me.

This is my first Pats game since I went to a couple games in '07, one of which turned out to be a preseason Super Bowl preview against the Giants (the other was the AFC Championship...great experience). That game fell in the middle of my 'sports vacation'...a week during which I went to back-to-back Sox games (including the Buchholz no-hitter) and the Deutsche Bank Championship. That week was also the first time I can remember thinking that I took some pretty kickass pictures on purpose.

I went through some of my pictures from that Pats game and forgot how much I liked a few of them. I think they're still some of my favorite pictures I've taken...not to mention some of the most time-consuming to edit.

Tom Brady and Eli Manning

The "Backerhood," as they called themselves. Junior Seau, Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel, and Adalius Thomas

Adalius Thomas checking out the crowd