Holiday Update

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I know many are busy getting back to some sense of normalcy after Christmas just like we are here in my household. I'm looking forward to what 2009 brings and will be updating the site/blog with basketball. My next scheduled shoot for AHS is Jan 5th.

Also a quick note: Hope to have the www.alcoasports.com site up soon and we will post more things about the alcoasports site dedicated to our Tornadoes here on this blog in the next few weeks.

AES-AMS Basketball Girls Championship OPEN

The Championship game for the Girls vs Carpenters is now open for viewing/purchase and will remain open until the end of January. The season galleries will go into archival status where you will still be able to view/order the photos at a higher cost. This is to make room for new seasons.

The boys game for AES-AMS vs Mary Blount is uploading and should be open late tonight or in the morning. The home page will tell when the gallery is open or you can check here on the blog for updated information.

Next Scheduled Shoot for AHS

Holiday obligations are messing up my sports shooting schedule so being at the AHS basketball game tonight is not going to happen. The next home game for AHS including BJV, GV, BV games will be shot on 1/5/2009 vs Loudon County at home AHS. All of the remaining GJV games are away so I will be taking to Josh Stephens about which game I should plan to attend.

The header for this blog will be changing to the basketball so keep an eye out for that change. Not sure what it will be but something fun.

AES-AMS Boys vs Porter Semi-Finals NOW OPEN

The upload took less time than anticipated so the gallery for the boys semi-finals game is now open for view/purchase. The next gallery to open will be the Championship game for the girls and the final game for the boys.

AES-AMS Semi-Finals Girls NOW OPEN

The Girls gallery for the Semi-Finals in the Basketball Tournament is now open. There is a team shot in the gallery right out of the camera. There will be an updated one coming soon for a special Alcoa layout......the blue background will be gone......but that's all for now. Keep you posted as things are completed. The boys game is being uploaded over night.

AES-AMS Final Games

AES-AMS Girls Basketball team is the Champion, winning the final tournament game against Carpenters. Way to go girls you really played a hard game/season and it has been great watching you play.

AES-AMS Boys Basketball team came in 3rd. They had an undefeated season then lost the semi final round against Porter then coming back and playing an awesome game against Mary Blount to take 3rd place. Proud of you boys......

The galleries for these 2 days of games will be posted soon. There are hundreds of photos we are sorting thru so bear with us and they will be up for view/purchase soon.

State Championship Gallery NOW OPEN

All of the 297 photos of the State game have been uploaded and are now open for viewing/purchase. All shots were taken from the stands to cropping and enlarging whne ordering is available. Please let me know if there are any layouts that you would like completed. The slideshow holds 3 State layouts with Daniel and Nathaniel Robinson. Your player can be pictured in the same layout.

At this time all of 2008 Football Season for AHS will be open thru 1/31/2009 where the plan is to archive the gallery. Eventually the gallery will be closed to make room for new seasons and notice will be given as to when that will happen.

ALCOA is the STATE CHAMPION

Way to go Tornadoes......you worked hard and it show! So proud of all of you for your team work and dedication. There are a few new things on the site. First, there is a Send off Gallery in AHS Football where the rest of the school cheered you on. Second, right now there are only 3 new State Championship layouts in the Inspirational Layouts gallery. Please contact me if you would like one also. Third, there are 297 photos to be uploaded. This will take some time. Keep checking back in and you will see notice on the home page of IBJC or here on this blog.

Change of Plans for my trip to State AGAIN

Ok this weeks schedule for me has tossed and turned and we came up with a solution. I will be going to the State Championship game but I will not be allowed on the field. Too much red tape and too many flaming hoops to jump thru so don't mind me as I walk around the stadium and take pictures. See you there........

Change of Plans for my trip to State

Media rules and regulations have been handed down by TSSAA and I will not be allowed to be on the sidelines. We were not aware of this until today so I'm very sad to say that I will NOT be going to the State game to photograph the players. Good luck on Friday Tornadoes!!!

The 2008 season of galleries will remain open for ordering thru 1/5/2009. Please feel free to contact me about any current photos if you would like to have a layout or special effect made. Christmas is coming and we still have time to order for delivery on 12/24.

AHS Playoff Game 4 Now Open

The gallery for playoff game AHS vs Marion is now open for viewing/purchase. This games has had the best series of actions shots and from many players. It was an exciting game for all and hopefully you can see that in the photos. Some of the photos you must pay attention too because they show the action as it happens....one that comes to mind is the touchdown by Tyler Robinson where you see his advance thru several players until he reaches the end zone! That is just one, this gallery is has a lot of great catches, runs, plays....etc!

The last few photos are right from the camera and I plan on working with the best one to create a special effect similar to one that was done in the beginning of the season that can be found under Football FX. The final photo is coming soon.........Enjoy!

Playoff Game 4 coming soon

Game shots from the AHS vs Marion playoff will be posted and open by sometime Monday. Updates on this gallery will be noted here. Great Job on the win Tornadoes!!!!

New Layouts and Posters

Basketball gallery of AES-AMS boys vs Mary Blount is now open for viewing/purchase.

Several different layout/Posters have been uploaded.

1. 3 new prints under Sports/Basketball FX......of Jake Amburgey to include: Impasto, Oil Painting & TA-ps Effects.

2. 2 new posters under Sports Style Creations/Sports Basketball Posters......of Jake Amburgey in pencil sketch.

3. 5 layouts that are square showing the Alcoa Walls....kind of.....there are several players on each layout. These can be found under Sports Style Creations/Inspirational Sports Layouts

4. Last for the day is this poster of Ben Dunkin pictured below and can be found under Sports Style Creations/Sports Football Posters

AES-AMS Basketball Posted for Girls

AES-AMS Girls basketball game played on 11/25/2008 against Mary Blount is now open for viewing/purchase. The boys game will be open after Thanksgiving. These photos have not been tagged as of yet but should be by the time the boys gallery is open. Thanks for your patience.

Playoff Game 3 NOW OPEN

The Gallery for Playoff game 3 is now open for viewing/purchase. Tagging will be completed soon. Nice catch in the end zone Daniel Robinson....the actual photo number will be posted later today.

Playoff Game 3 gallery info

Photos from game 3 are being uploaded now. They will not be open until sometime in the afternoon on Monday...there are 224 shots. Tagging of this gallery along with several others should be finished soon so the search page under keywords will pull up all of your players photos.

A few photos have been added to the Football FX gallery. Thanks Jalik and Jaron Toney for the nice photo....I did do 2 sketches for you to see. The helmet entrance with fireworks is quite a site to see so there are 3 versions of one of the photos completed.

AHS Playoff Game 3 coming soon

Alcoa won round 3 and will move to round 4 on their home turf. Alcoa plays Marion on 11/28/2008 at Alcoa High School. Sure hope it's not as cold as it was tonight. There are over 250 games shots to process and upload. This will take a few extra days for the gallery to be live. Please bear with us as we hope to have this up by Monday. More news on progress of posting this gallery will come soon.

AHS BV Basketball vs McMinn Central 11/20/2008 Now Open

The Boys Varsity game for Alcoa High vs Central is now open and available for viewing/purchase. If you would like a custom layout please contact me to discuss the options. Christmas is right around the corner so the countdown is on.....order your prints soon.

Union Grove Elementary Basketball 11/20/2008

Union Grove Boys and Girls games played on Thursday 11/20/2008 will be posted this weekend. We shot a full game for the girls vs Friendsville and 1/2 a game for the boys vs Friendsville.

AES-AMS vs Vonore Basketball NOW OPEN

Both Boys and Girls game are open. The tagging has not been completed for these games or for the 2nd Playoff game for AHS Football as of yet. We are working on this and hope to have full tags soon.

Playoff Game 2 Gallery is now open

The photos from the 2nd playoff game against CAK are now open for viewing/purchase. Tagging has not been completed as of yet but we are working on this this week.

Sports Style Creations update

Here is a new layout using one of my favorite photos shot after the game. I'm not sure who's hands they are but they sure make a nice statement that I thought worked well with TEAMWORK. This layout can be found under Sports/Sports Style Creations/Inspirational Sports Layouts and the hand photos have had some effects and can be found under Sports/Sports FX.

The full gallery of shots will be open by tomorrow. There are close to 300 photos we are working with.

AES-AMS Basketball Posted

Both Boys and Girls basketball game galleries from the Alcoa vs Fairview are now open. Scores will be updated later....sorry about not having that. All of the tagging for easy search is not completed yet for the boys game so check back in a day or so for specific searchs of your player.

Football game shots from the 2nd playoff game will be up later today or tonight....we are working on this now. Just to note: not all of the games have been tagged yet on this either. All galleries should be completed by the end of the week.

Basketball and Footballs game galleries info

Both games are in the process of being worked and uploaded. The girls game will be the first gallery posted. The time has been a little longer for gallery opening of these games due to the fact that the lighting in some gyms are different and photos will need to be worked with in order for us to post.

Another note is that we had 3 games back to back between AES basketball and AHS football. The galleries for each game will be uploaded as they were photographed. (Girls basketball first, then boy, and third will be the AHS playoff game 2) Please be patient we are working hard to get these galleries open for you.

Tagging each photo will come shortly after the last games have been opened. At this time not all photos have been tagged with keywords but we are feverishly working on getting everything marked to make your searching fast and easy.

AMS Basketball vs Porter BOYS

AES-AMS Boys basketball vs Porter game shots are now open for viewing/purchase. Photos are in the process of being tagged for ease of searching. We will post a notice when all photos/galleries have been completed. In the mean time keep checking back with us. You can still view galleries. These are just part of our growing pains.

Alcoa Nominee for Mr. Football Award

THE TENNESSEE TITANS MR. FOOTBALL AWARDS
TO BE PRESENTED ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008
Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center, Murfreesboro
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CT

A HUGE congratulations goes out of one of our own Alcoa players; TYLER ROBINSON has been nominated for the award for the Division 1, Class 2A Lineman classification.

From the TSSAA.org site:

The Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Awards will be presented to the top 14 backs and linemen in seven classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association on Monday, December 1, 2008, at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Murfreesboro. For the seventh consecutive year, the top kicker in the state will be recognized with a Mr. Football Award. There are three finalists in this category, regardless of their school's classification. The awards are sponsored by Nancy and Bud Adams through their donation from the Tennessee Titans Foundation.

"High school football in Tennessee enjoys a great tradition throughout the state and we are pleased to join the TSSAA for the second consecutive year in saluting these fine young men at the Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Awards," said Adams. "The young men that are recognized with these awards are truly the best of the best! They are selected not only for their football skills, but for their strong character and academic achievements and we're honored to join the TSSAA in saluting them!"

A committee of statewide sports writers selected winners based on performance in the 2008 regular season. Academics and character were also taken into consideration. High school head coaches and members of the media nominated the finalists.

Full listing and information can be found here.

Again, Congratulations to Tyler Robinson and his family, because it took his family to get him where he is.... Tyler, I know your parents are proud of you!!

NEW Basketball Posters

We are testing out a printing company and I have sent off 5 basketball layouts as tests. This give us a chance to see how your prints will be before you order.

The Basketball layouts that are open for viewing now are available for customization for your player. The gallery can be found under Sports/Sports Style Creations/Basketball. Contact me for details.

AMS Basketball vs Porter GIRLS

The gallery for the Alcoa Girls Basketball game against Porter is now open. They can be found under Sports/AMS Basketball. Boys game shots posted later today.

Alcoa Calendar for FREE plus free download

FREE -- FREE -- FREE
Please see me or one of our helpers at any game for a free Alcoa Calendar where the dates run from Sept 2008 thru the end of 2009. For this freebie we used the header found on this blog. Those players include Daniel Robinson, Justin Marsh, Deontra Herbert, Marcel Walden, Nathaniel Robinson, Tyler Robinson and Chase James. There is another player that I have yet to identify that is behind Chase James. Please let me know (email) who this is if anyone figures this out. I'm sure that player would appreciate the recognition.

You can also download a digital copy to print that can be found here. When we run out we will change the header and have more printed as needed.

Just to give you a heads up there is a website listed on the calendar that is for AlcoaSports. This site is currently under construction and will be the link "coming soon" on the photography site. Of course it will be changed to ready Alcoa Sports. This up and coming site will also have a forum where you can talk Alcoa sports. Many things are coming so please let us know how we are doing, vote on the Right side of this blog. Thank you for your patience during our growing phases, and there are quite a few. These new things are all for our past, present and future Tornadoes!!!

Here is what the calendar looks like:

AMS Basketball vs Porter

Photos for the Alcoa Elem/Middle School games against Porter (Boys/Girls) are being uploaded and should be open today. The girls game shots will be posted first and can be found under AlcoaSports/AMS Basketball. The boys gallery will be uploaded later and open either tonight or in the AM at the latest. There are 251 photos between both games.

We are in the process of getting players names so we can tag each photo thus making it easy for you to find all the the pictures your child is in.

AHS Playoff Game-1 NOW OPEN

Photos from the 1st game in the playoff's against Cumberland Gap is now open and available for viewing/purchase. Next scheduled game is Friday 11/14 against CAK.

Playoff Game 1 photos uploaded soon

Just a quick update to let you know that the photo gallery for the playoff game last night will be open soon. We will try to have it ready for you by tomorrow evening or latest would be Sunday afternoon. Thanks for your patience.

Availablity link moved on site

Due to the vast problems we have been having with the navbar code of the Images by Jenifer Clark site we had to move the Availability link to the Alcoa Sports drop down. This way the overlap of Home and Search should no longer be an issue. Sorry if this caused any problems.

New Sports Poster and FX

Here is the latest sports poster (Sports Style Creations) and this one is of Adrian Womac. You can find it by clicking here.

3 new sports FX prints have been created 2 of which are Adrian Womac and the third is Nathaniel Robinson. You can find those 3 by clicking here.

Posters and FX are created to show the wide range of effects that be done. Photos are chosen at random. If you find a picture of your player that you want created into a poster or have FX that you really like please email us with your request.

Search page is now active

SEARCH PAGE IS ACTIVE. The search page has been created and we are putting the tags on the photos. This will take us some time but the keywords are working and you can search by name. Searching by jersey number is not possible at this time. We hope to have all the photos tagged by the end of next week so when you do a search it will be a complete scan of all the galleries.

Search option on IBJC site

If you notice there is now a SEARCH link at the top on the right of the navbar on the IBJC site. This page will allow you to see popular photos, search by date range, keyword search and the search bar. Keywords are great in that if you see one that you need there will be a drop down to tell you how many photos are under that keyword and all you have to do is click that word to see the photos. Several kinks will need to be worked out so notices will be posted on days were there is site maintenance. The photos and keywords are being updated and this will take us a little more time. Thanks for your patience with our growing pains.

Site Changes

If you are wondering about the look of the site or what is going on today, work is being done on this so we can get rid of the kinks in the navbar. That is the drop down list of galleries under the blue line. Plus we are trying to add a well needed search page for you to find your players photos. Each photo will need to be tagged so we have a team working on getting this updated for us now. These are good changes so please bear with us during our upgrades. After it's completed you will be able find photos by name and/or number along with just browsing the game gallery. The page is active and can be used. The tags are being added and we hope to have this completed within the next week or so.

Alcoa Playoff Game 1 Changed

The Alcoa High School Playoff scheduled for Friday 11/7 has been changed to Thursday 11/6 due to the 60% chance of rain forecasted for Friday.

Site Changes

For some time the navbar on the IBJC site has overlapped and looked just fine on this computer where we do site changes/updates. After noticing the look on another computer we went to work fixing the look. Only a few things have changed as of right now. The Guestbook and My Blog have been moved under Information so the navbar should look better.

The next change that you will notice sometime this week will be the search page. This will be where you can search by date range or keyword. This will take some time for the team to key every photo so you can find your player by name/number. Thanks for being patient with us, we are growing at an incredible rate and keeping things easy and simple is our mission.

There are many new things yet to come in terms of merchandise you can get with your photos. If you have suggestions feel free to email us on things you would like to see. Also, there are 2 polls here on this site that would be helpful for us to know how we are doing. Please vote.

AHS vs Loudon Now Posted

Game shots from the Alcoa vs Loudon have been uploaded and are ready for viewing/purchase. The photos are in order so where you see some that look similar they are not the same they are just consecutive shots of the action. This game seemed more physical/rough than past games, as you can see in a few of the scenes captured. Great job on the winning season!!!

METALLIC prints now available and these are FANTASTIC for both color and black & white. Ask to see some prints in METALLIC they are really neat to see.

AHS Freshman vs Farragut game shots OPEN

Game shots from the Freshman game is now open for viewing/purchase........all 224 of them. Enjoy, there are a lot of great action shots. Sorry about the score if it's not right, let me know what it was if its wrong. NOTE: there are 2 polls on the right side of this blog. Please let us know how we are doing by voting. Thanks!

Polls for Site Information

We have added 2 poll so we can get a feel on how this site is working for everyone. This will help us determine if we are working in the right direction on easy of navigation and usefulness. The IBJC site is the photography galleries. More polls will be added at a later date for categories like favorite photos and other fun things where prizes will be given. Please send us an email if you have any suggestions. The goal is to make this a top notch site for our Alcoa Tornadoes.

AHS Freshman vs Farragut gallery info

The photos from last nights game have been uploaded to the computer and need to be edited for clarity.......there are over 200+ photos from this game alone. Some are just awesome!!! Give me a little time to work with these. The goal is to have these ready for viewing/purchase by tomorrow.

AHS Freshman vs Farragut game shots

Photos will be posted as soon as we can get the game shots sorted and uploaded. There are so many GREAT shots from this game and that is just viewing them on the camera screen. Hope to have these up tomorrow afternoon or by Wed at the latest.

Site changes coming soon

Just to let you know that we have a search function coming soon where you will be able to search by date, date range, keyword or custom word. We are working on this feature and you will soon see a link on the navbar once it's completed and we know it works.....

AHS vs Rockwood Now Posted

The photos from the Alcoa vs Rockwood game played on 10/23/2008 have been posted. The direct link is here. They are also playing on the homepage slide show.

AHS Freshman vs Seymour is now posted

The Freshman game against Seymour has been posted and has 91 photos. If you are not seeing your son in many photos at the next game just yell my name "Jen or Jenifer" and give me a number I will make sure that the camera follows your son to get some action shots.
AHS vs Rockwood is coming soon and it should be no later than Sunday.

Game shots coming soon

Photos shot at the Alcoa Freshman and Varsity games on 10/23 will be open for viewing and purchase later tonight or sometime on Saturday.

Football FX additions

A few special FX photos have been added to the Football FX gallery and/or Sports Style Posters. They include the following players.
#5 Daniel Robinson: 3 photos and one in the Sports Style under posters.
#61 Marcel Walden: 2 new photos
#34 Cody Lewis: 1 photo
#8 Chase James under Sports Style posters
The posters will be available for sale soon.

4th/5th Basketball 10/21

Starting off the season right.......they won the first game. I believe the score was 35-12 but don't quote me on that. PHOTOS ARE NOW POSTED!
You can order right from the site and have it shipped to your house. There are many options for print size and cropping. Let me know if you are interested in a special effect. I will have a Basketball FX up soon.

New Effect

I have been working on a new effect and I think I have one that I really like. It's a pencil sketch and I did one in color shown here. Not only will you see the pencil sketches but there are other FX that I did on the same photo of Marcel.

AHS Football Rescheduled

I just got word that the Alcoa High School game scheduled for this Friday 10/24 against Rockwood has been moved to Thursday night 10/23. The Freshman game will still be played but the time has been moved back to 5pm so the Varsity kickoff is on time at 7:30pm.

Sports/Football FX updated

I have done a few special effect on photos of Marcel Walden and Daniel Robinson. They can be found here They include edge effect, texture and vintage actions.

Website Changes

I am in the process of making the site look and run smoother so if you happen to see something strange on the layout of the header/navbar just know that I'm working on this. My plan is to have the text box show only a small amount of info so you can see the slide show.

Getting set up

Just a quick note to say that if you find this blog, don't mind the mess. I have just created it and will be customizing it for news and information that pertains to my photography website. The link for that site is http://www.imagesbyjeniferclark.com/

You can subscribe to the site on the right side to be updated on news or check the main page of ImagesbyJeniferClark for updates then to be directed here for detailed information.

More to come soon.....