Patrick McDermott | Visual Journalist

At the end of March I decided to take full advantage of the first free 10-day period on my calendar in a long time to travel out west to work on two personal projects. The first brought me back to Spanish Forks, Utah to continue working on a project that looks at the worldwide celebration of the Hindu festival of Holi. The festival this year was absolutely amazing. It was estimated that there was at least 80,000 people in attendance on the day I was there.

After dropping my friend Viv off at the airport I headed to Mammoth Lakes, California to spend the next week covering the 2012 FIS World Criterium Alpine Masters. This event is held annually at different locations around the world, and is considered the World Championships for Masters skiing. Over the week, I met some amazing individuals who are still racing almost as fast as their younger counter parts on the FIS World Cup. Due to the weather I was only able to photograph three days of racing. It was ironic that as a skier I was annoyed every time the weather report called for 8+ inches of snow…

These are some of the frames that I captured using my iPhone during my time in the mountains when I was not using with my normal Nikon gear. More tk…

At a little past 3:20 a small group of half-awake members of the press were lead to a small conference room in a law firm on 5th Avenue near Central Park to hear what we all thought was the announcement that we had been waiting for the past 149 days: the NBA lockout was over. At a little past 3:40 am on Saturday November 26, 2011 NBA Commissioner David Stern, NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt, Former Executive Director of the NBA Players Association Billy Hunter, Derek Fisher, and Maurice Evans broke the good news to us. About half way through the press conference, I noticed Billy Hunter smile and wink at me after he recognized that I was once again the one behind the lone still camera there (besides the official NBA photographer). I’ve clearly spent way too much time around these men! Here are a few photographs from the announcement. I will be working on posting a “behind the scenes” look at what it was like to cover the labor talks through a collection of photographs I took with both my iPhone and regular camera over the past month or so. Should be up hopefully by the end of this week. Enjoy!

Please note: All images are copyrighted by Getty Images, 2011. It is illegal to copy, manipulate, print, distribute and/or use any of the content from this site without written permission from the copyright holder (in this case, Getty Images).

At the end of July, I moved to New York City for a four month sports photography internship at Getty Images. The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy but I am loving every single minute of it. I have a feeling that I will grow more as a photographer in the next few months then in all of my career thus far. I am going to try to post a blog update every month on what I’ve been up to during the last month…but can’t make any promises when each of those will come. But for now here are three photographs: one from the Constellation Energy Senior Players Golf Championship and the other two from the Milwaukee Brewers v New York Mets game last night…

RYE, NY - AUGUST 18: Jeff Sluman hits his second shot on the 10th hole during the first round of the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship at Westchester Country Club on August 18, 2011 in Rye, New York. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: Angel Pagan #16 of the New York Mets hits a two run home run in the eighth inning during a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Citi Field on August 20, 2011 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: Jerry Hairston #15 of the Milwaukee Brewers misses a two run double hit by Lucas Duda #21 of the New York Mets during the seventh inning at Citi Field on August 20, 2011 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

Please note: All images are copyrighted by Getty Images, 2011. It is illegal to copy, manipulate, print, distribute and/or use any of the content from this site without written permission from the copyright holder (in this case, Getty Images).