Which Brands is which??

During my days of shooting Iowa wrestling, it was always an interesting guessing game to figure out which Brands is which. I've posted a few of my photos throughout this season - mostly during the NCAA Championships.
Can you tell which Brands is which? I'll post an answer later this week but you should let me know what you think. After I've been given an array of answers, I'll explain to you how I learned the difference between the two.

Renovations: Improve Hawks

Athletes are People Too

First of all...Check it out:
Sporting Tattoos in Hawk Nation

While taking photos for this story for the Daily Iowan, it occurred to me how real athletes are. It's interesting when you look at it from different perspectives, really.

Instead of writing a game story, a ho-hum feature on how great so and so is going to do and such and such meet, blah blah - same ol' same ol' a DI reporter - Amie Kiehn decided she was going to write about athletes and their tattoos - kind of showing a new side to them as people - not as an athlete.

I think it's a good break from the usual front page Sports section story...and I thought it worked well. We combined our talents and myself and another photographer photographed and gathered audio from these people. For once in their lives they could talk about something different than the same thing they always talk about - their sport.

Sports reporters should really sit down and think about this. "Hmm I wonder why they are giving me the same answer for every question?" And honestly, do reporters think that that is exactly what they are REALLY thinking? Well, here comes the news for all reporters - high and low - nope. They tell you what they think you want to hear OR they tell you what their coach wants them to hear.

For some reason, I don't think some sports reporters realize this.

Especially college athletes - get so tired of the media being all up in their face all the time. I think at times the media needs to back off and let them be who they are, rather than the star of the football team or the wrestling champion - let them be the 21 year old who went with his brother to get a tattoo. Or a 22 year old who wants to display various interests on the outside of his body.

I think some of the athletes we interviewed enjoyed talking about themselves as a person for a change...rather than the usual "I'm going to try harder next time" type of conversation.