Patrick McDermott | Visual Journalist

With Autumn just around the corner, I once again have become restless for the arrival of winter.  Over the years I have photographed a ton of cool events and really important people, but what I love the most to photograph is skiing or snowboarding or anything that has me around snow.  So as soon as the first snow falls in the Rockies or Sierra Nevada Mountains and I don’t answer my phone, know that I’m off doing what I do best.

Over the past few months, a ton of people have asked me what it is like to do the job I do.  To try to start to answer that question, I decided to pool a collection of fun photographs of fellow photographers that I took during my travels over the last year or so.  Even though these photos show the fun side of the job, it is really a ton of hard work and long hours to get the photographs that we produce day in and day out.  Enjoy!

Last Saturday, I headed to the Rose Bowl to photographer the international friendly match between the LA Galaxy and Real Madrid.  The match was relatively uneventful as it was an exhibition game.  The first half was dominated by the LA Galaxy since Real Madrid was playing their “JV” team, but that quickly changed in the second half with the entrance of some of the top football (soccer) players in the world including Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.  At times it looked like Ronaldo would simply stand still and toy with the LA Galaxy defense before making a crazy move to get by them.  In the end Real Madrid defeated the LA Galaxy 3-2.