Entries in South Dakota (32)

May 9

zamboni cropped.jpg 

Face it guys.  You wanna drive the Zamboni.  You know you do.  Just ask the Gear Daddies.

I took this photo at a Sioux Falls Stampede hockey game three or four years ago at the Sioux Falls Arena.

And yes, I too wanna drive the Zamboni. 

Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

May 8

elevator fire 2002.jpg 

 Don't panic!

This is not an out of control fire but a controlled burn of the old grain elevator in Harrisburg a couple summers ago.  It was one of the biggest deals to hit the Garden Spot of Lincoln County in many years.  It turned into a major fire fighting exercise for the region's fire fighters.  Plus, it was really cool to watch.   I kept yelling "fire, fire, huh, huh, fire" like Beavis and Butthead.

Posted on Sunday, May 7, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , | CommentsPost a Comment | References1 Reference | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

May 7

snow pole fixed.jpg 

Hopefully, scenes like this are done for a while in South Dakota.  I took this photo out my front door of snow piled on our flag pole about four or five years ago.  It's not often that the snow just comes down without blowing around here in Dakota.
Posted on Sunday, May 7, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

May 3


epps at mt. rushmore 2002 2.jpg 

This is the rare photo that I did not take.  It was taken by the folks from Kodak during a promotion they were doing at Mt. Rushmore in June 2002.  While I look like a typical touristy dork, I like the family pose and Mt. Rushmore behind us.  We were in Rapid City for the state soccer tournament.  It

is a memory of a good time with my family.

Posted on Wednesday, May 3, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

May 1

 tia and sarah tepee fixed.jpg 

This is a photo of my daughter Sarah (right) and her friend Tia from the summer of 2002 at Wall Drug in Wall, SD.  I like their mischievous looks and stcking their tongues out at me.  The girls would have been about 12 at the time and acting, well, like kids.
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

April 29

andrew mccuen keeper.jpg 

This is a photo I took several years ago during a U8 or U10 soccer tournament in Sioux Falls.  That is Andrew McCuen at keeper, who is a tremendous athlete I have coached over the years and who is currently on my son Matt's U12 Davita rec team that I also coach.  I love the look of determination on his face.
Posted on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

April 28

basketball swoosh cropoped.jpg 

I wish I could tell you I meant for this photo to turn out this way, but that would not be the truth.  Typically in my sports photography, I'm trying to stop the action as sharply as possible, not blur it.  I get enough unintentional blur as it is from poorly lit gyms and too weak of a flash unit on my camera.

But I think in this photo, the blur works pretty well.  My daughter Sarah, the maroon gal in the middle, is mostly stopped and waiting to receive the just thrown basketball from an unseen teammate.  Meanwhile, the other players swirl around her playing defense.  I think it captures the critical moment of the ball being thrown and the controlled chaos that is basketball.  I believe I took the photo in 2005 and it is of a C game between Harrisburg and Sioux Falls Christian.   

 

Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

April 25

yankton river dock vert fixed.jpg 

I thought this was an interesting photo as all the people on this dock on the Missouri River at Yankton, SD's Riverside Park appear to be oblivious to each other.  Also, the boy in the foreground looks like he's surfing, "hangin' ten," I believe.  I took this photo last summer.
Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , | CommentsPost a Comment | References1 Reference | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

April 22

bison parking lot.jpg 

At Custer State Park, SD, bison have the run of the park--and the parking lots.  I took this photo last Saturday.  I wasn't about to tell the big fellow he couldn't park there.
Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

April 21

cloud and blue sky.jpg 

I just took this photo Saturday in Custer State Park, SD.  Monday, this would have been a photo of several feet of snow.  Because of the low humidity and altitude, the sky is incredibly blue in the Black Hills.  This singular white cloud in the spring sky I think acts as a nice contrast and highlights the blueness of a Black Hills sky.
Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint
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