2011: A year through my lens
By Andy Lopusnak/AndysPictures.com
In 2011, I took nearly 200,000 photos using my three SLRs, two point & shoots and my phone. I covered 54 games this past year which includes 21 NFL contests, 23 college basketball games, six Arena Football matchups, three college football games and one NHL game.
My 2011 began as I concluded my first wedding shoot outside of San Francisco. I boarded a plane New Year’s Day to Houston to cover the Texans’ win over Jacksonville. Fast forward to the end of the year and I was back in Texas to do the Sun Bowl in El Paso. In between I spent nearly 400 hours (that’s about 17 days) in the air and tallied over 150,000 miles in the air. That’s enough miles to circle the globe six times. All of the travel was in North America. Aside from a vacation to Montreal, I didn’t go to an airport from April 5 to August 3; and all other flights were within the continental United States.
2011 marked the first time I covered the Final Four. I also got into photographing models and taking video with my Canon 7D in 2011. Later in this blog, you'll see my top photos, time lapses and videos as well as a complete list of all sporting events I covered in 2011.
INTERESTING FLYING TIDBITS
Most Common Flight: DL 1684 from SJC to ATL (2,116 miles). Flown 16 times. Flight
Longest Flight: DL 1138 from JFK to SFO (2,586 miles). Flown once.
Most visited Delta hub: Atlanta (19 times), Salt Lake City (16). I only connected through both cities and didn’t cover any games at either.
MY YEAR BY THE NUMBERS
0 – Number of flights flown in May and July. I did have four flights in June when I vacationed with Bethany in Montreal (award travel).
5 – New state capitals added in 2011 (Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Washington and Wisconsin).
5 – Number of double dip weekends where I covered two different CBS games in two different cities. This includes the Sun Bowl on New Year’s Eve 2011 and the Jets-Dolphins game on New Year’s Day 2012.
7 – Number of different airlines flown in 2011. In addition to Delta, I flew on AirTran, Alaskan, Continental, Southwest, United and US Airways
11 – New NFL stadium time lapses added in 2011 (Arizona, Detroit, New Orleans, NY Jets, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington). This doesn’t include different angles for Baltimore, Houston and another Pittsburgh one. I did shoot time lapses of the entire NFC West in 2011. Nine of the eleven were from NFC cities.
16-5 – Record of home teams in 21 NFL games covered.
25 – Number of different states visited.
38 – Number of different sports time lapses created in 2011.
106 – Number of Medallion Qualification Segments I flew on Delta in 2011. This doesn’t include award travel or flights on any other airlines. On those 106 flights, I tallied 137,459 qualification miles.
59,598 – Amount of rollover miles on Delta. This means that for 2013 I’m already Gold for 2013 and need little more than 15,000 qualification miles to reach Platinum. I could reach this before the end of January.
76,528 – Qualification miles needed to reach one million miles flown on Delta and be in the airline’s 1M club.
BEST PHOTOS OF 2011
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| UCONN Huskies center Alex Oriakhi |
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| Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, California |
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| Model Lucero at Golden Gate Park |
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| Bliss Dance Sculpture at Night on Treasure Island |
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| Blue Angels plane with the Golden Gate Bridge |
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| Model Karli |
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| Arizona State Fair at Night |
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| Occupy San Francisco |
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| St. Louis Sunset |
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| Detroit, Michigan |
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| Arizona Wildcats forward Derrick Williams |
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| Model Ty |
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| UCONN wins 2011 Final Four |
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| Pro golfer Sergio Garcia |
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| Model Nikolas in San Francisco |
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| Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis |
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| Houston Texans WR Andre Johnson |
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| Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin |
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| Monochrome Detroit |
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| Swirling Lights |
BEST TIME LAPSES OF 2011
Of the 38 sports time lapses I took in 2011, here's my top five from the year. To view more, please go to YouTube.com/Andysnaks.
1. 2011 Final Four Championship game.
2. Met Life Stadium
3. Arena Football League: Philadelphia at San Jose
4. Reliant Stadium
5. Super Bowl XLV Broadcast
BEST VIDEOS OF 2011
Here's a look at some of my favorite videos created with my Canon EOS 7D. To view more, please go to YouTube.com/Andysnaks.
1. Arizona State Fair
2. New Orleans
3. Pittsburgh
4. MLK Memorial
2011 GAMES COVERED
Here’s a list of all the games I covered as a statistician or photographer in 2011 with the results. DATE | GAME | RESULT |
01/02 | NFL: Jacksonville at Houston | HOU 34-17 |
01/08 | NCAA Basketball: UCONN at Notre Dame (women’s) | UCONN 79-76 |
01/15 | NFL Playoff: Baltimore at Pittsburgh | PIT 31-24 |
01/22 | NCAA Basketball: Texas at Kansas | TX 74-63 |
02/06 | NCAA Basketball: Michigan State at Wisconsin | WIS 82-56 |
02/19 | NCAA Basketball: Georgia at Tennessee | GEO 69-63 |
02/26 | NCAA Basketball: BYU at San Diego State | BYU 80-67 |
02/27 | NCAA Basketball: Indiana at Ohio State | OSU 82-61 |
03/05 | NCAA Basketball: Oregon at Arizona | AZ 90-82 |
03/10 | NHL: Vancouver at San Jose | SJ 5-4 (SO) |
03/11 | AFL: Spokane at San Jose | SJ 76-48 |
03/13 | A10 Championship: Dayton vs. Richmond | RICH 67-54 |
03/16 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: St. Peter’s vs. Purdue | PUR 65-43 |
03/16 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: VCU vs. Georgetown | VCU 74-56 |
03/16 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: FSU vs. Texas A&M | FSU 57-50 |
03/16 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: Akron vs. Notre Dame | ND 69-56 |
03/18 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: FSU vs. Notre Dame | FSU 71-57 |
03/18 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: Purdue vs. VCU | VCU 72-71 |
03/23 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: Duke vs. Arizona | AZ 93-77 |
03/23 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: SDSU vs. UCONN | UCONN 74-67 |
03/25 | NCAA Basketball Tournament: Arizona vs. UCONN | UCONN 65-63 |
04/01 | NCAA Basketball: D1 All-Star Game (East vs. West) | West 113-108 |
04/02 | Final Four Semifinals: Butler vs. VCU | BUT 70-62 |
04/02 | Final Four Semifinals: Kentucky vs. UCONN | UCONN 56-55 |
04/04 | Final Four Title Game: Butler vs. UCONN | UCONN 53-41 |
04/08 | AFL: Utah at San Jose | SJ 75-55 |
04/22 | AFL: Philadelphia at San Jose | PHI 68-61 |
05/07 | AFL: Arizona at San Jose | AZ 65-43 |
05/28 | AFL: Georgia at San Jose | GEO 55-49 |
07/01 | AFL: Jacksonville at San Jose | SJ 83-70 |
07/09 | AFL: Orlando at San Jose | SJ 60-40 |
08/20 | NFL: Oakland at San Francisco | SF 17-3 |
08/28 | NFL: New England at Detroit | DET 34-10 |
09/11 | NFL: Indianapolis at Houston | HOU 34-7 |
09/18 | NFL: Jacksonville at NY Jets | NYJ 32-3 |
09/25 | NFL: Houston at New Orleans | NO 40-33 |
10/01 | NCAA Football: Air Force at Navy | AFA 35-34 (OT) |
10/02 | NFL: Pittsburgh at Houston | HOU 17-10 |
10/09 | NFL: Tennessee at Pittsburgh | PIT 38-17 |
10/16 | NFL: Houston at Baltimore | BAL 29-14 |
10/23 | NFL: Pittsburgh at Arizona | PIT 32-20 |
10/30 | NFL: Miami at NY Giants | NYG 20-17 |
11/06 | NFL: Denver at Oakland | DEN 38-24 |
11/13 | NFL: Baltimore at Seattle | SEA 22-17 |
11/20 | NFL: Cincinnati at Baltimore | BAL 31-24 |
11/25 | NCAA Football: Arkansas at LSU | LSU 41-17 |
11/27 | NFL: New England at Philadelphia | NE 38-17 |
12/03 | NCAA Basketball: North Carolina at Kentucky | UK 73-72 |
12/04 | NFL: Oakland at Miami | MIA 34-14 |
12/11 | NFL: New England at Washington | NE 34-27 |
12/18 | NFL: Cincinnati at St. Louis | CIN 20-13 |
12/19 | NFL: Pittsburgh at San Francisco | SF 20-3 |
12/24 | NFL: San Diego at Detroit | DET 38-10 |
12/31 | Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. Utah | Utah 30-27 (OT) |
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