Around Monday last week I received a phone call.
Voice says: “Hey Brian, our photographer is on vacation. Would you be able to cover the Cup Final thursday?”

Without much hesitation I replied with a “Yes of course!”

The Cup Final is a nation wide soccer tournament where lower tier teams compete with the top division teams. It’s not the National Championship, but the winner gets a ticket to the European UEFA Cup next year. Brondby the local soccer team where I live is so far down the standing they looked to not make it to the European tournaments for the second straight year which is not satisfying what so ever.

Not only did I get to shoot top level soccer (The final was between two top division teams), I got to shoot the local soccer team where I live. And it was played in the National stadium where the Danish National team plays their home games.

Brondby won the game 3-2 after being ahead 1-0, 2-1 and scoring their last goal to make it 3-2 with about five minutes to go.
The fans got so excited. I was sitting in the same end as the Brondby fans and when they scored their second goal to make it 2-1 I almost got bombed with beer. A container hit the dirt right next to me and a spray of beer flew up and soaked my sock and left side of my pants. Why would anybody toss an almost full cup of beer? I’d empty it up instead!!

Anyway here’s a slideshow with sound and photos from the very exciting game! Click the image to launch.

As promised the other day, here’s the slideshows I did for the playoffs.

It’s a mix of danish and english comments so for you non-danish guys, sorry you wont understand it all.

1st round playoffs - Game 3
1st round playoffs - Game 4
1st round playoffs - Game 5
1st round playoffs - Game 6
1st round playoffs - Game 7

I figured it was about time I did another slideshow. I shot a pro soccer match today.Anyway… enjoy.click image to launch.

Yesterday I went to Sweden to shoot a hockey game between two teams with danish players on them. The home side has a player, who played for the local team where I work, last year, so when I got a chance to go up there and shoot photos I accepted the offer right away.It’s alway good fun to go to our neighboring country to shoot hockey.click image to launch.

I covered the last two games of the 2007 (though we’re still in 2006) World Junior Championships Division I games Denmark played.They lost this game but it was still enough to be claimed winners and advance to the top 10 nations group next year.Here are some images of the game and celebration. I apologize for the interview at the end being in Danish.

So as mentioned a while back, one of my plans when buying the M-Audio Microtrack was to make some slideshows. I finally got around to recording some audio during a hockey game, so I had some audio to mess around with and test some stuff.Anyway here’s my first slideshow containing Audio!Click image to launch slideshow.

I’ve purchased the M-Audio Microtrack digital sound recorder. It’s my intention to make slideshows with sound. I’ve also considered maybe making podcasts. But I’m not quite sure what the topics in the podcasts should be.

Anyway, the Slideshows should come soon.