Dallas Texas Architectural Photographer Will Rutledge

It’s that time of year… I am getting ready to head over to Irving Stadium to work the first game of the last year of Cowboys stadium… The game should be incredible… last year’s game was great and this one should hold the same drama. What a great game to shoot. On top of that… Peter Read Miller is coming into town to shoot it and he is an amazing photographer. I love working with him. I am also looking forward to the amusing game of “hit the silly photographer with my pom-poms” played by the cheerleaders… Those girls… I swear… they kick you and then giggle about it with the other cheerleaders… I think it is discussed in the locker room which photographers they like and which ones they don’t and then punish the ones they don’t… (It will be a long season for me if I don’t make a good impression early on…) I wish I could smuggle flowers in or something…

Side note… I went out on Saturday in Dallas with a friend and we met a couple of nice ladies who tried to get us in this ridiculous dance club… and I got the VIP rope slammed down in my face… What a shot to the ego… I am now labeled “not one of the cool kids” WEAK… I knew I was a nerd, but I thought I was a cool nerd…

It probably didn’t help my case that I had flip-flops on but that’s how I roll… I think you are even cooler if you can be a badass and wear flip-flops out on a Saturday night… (I might be wrong on this one but I am not dressing up to hit $15 drink night at a stupid club…)

So my friend went in and I ventured on another bar and met some people and had fun… thankfully that bar accepted my flip-flops and winning smile…

Tags: Personal Photography, Sports Illustrated, Sports Photography

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