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The summer has been too short (aren’t they all?), and we’re back and ready for the 2011-2012 season!

As a thank you to our customers we’re taking 40% off all prints and digital images for the next 5 days. So place (and pay for) your orders by 7pm Eastern on September 1st to receive the discount! But once the Division III football season starts our prices will revert to normal. Get it while it’s hot (and cheap)!

We’re looking for new photographers again this fall, so if you’re interested please send us an email at newshooter@d3photography.com with a link to your portfolio and your region of the country and we’ll get back to you.

Thank you to every that follows our blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed and our posted galleries! We wouldn’t be able to do this work without your patronage!

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Watching the Yankees-Rangers game on ESPN right now seeing Gary Pettis’ ejection over a close call at first (I think the umps were right) reminds me of today’s St. Thomas/Gustavus matchup. Cody Sukalski hit a slow chopper to second and I put the photo in our gallery of his foot on the bag with Firstbaseman John Means’ foot on the bag, stretched out and the ball is still at least two feet away from making contact. [box score: play-by-play]

He was called out. It won’t change the outcome of the game by any means now – it wasn’t the last play of the game with the bases loaded and Gustavus wasn’t even threatening. But check out the photo.

Umpires are fallible. Mistakes happen. Close calls are forgivable, but this one wasn’t. Close that is.

As photographers we’re all about the freeze-frame. That single snapshot (pun intended) that defines a moment and this was one of them.

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Championship

Semifinal 1 – Notre Dame vs. Minn-Duluth

Semifinal 2 – North Dakota vs. Michigan

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Ryan Coleman shot these photos for CollegeHockeyNews.com:

North Dakota

Notre Dame

Michigan

Minnesota-Duluth

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Photos by Pat Coleman (of D3sports.com), Wade Gardner and Ryan Coleman (both of d3photography.com) for USCHO.com and D3sports.com.

If you want to order any of these photos, click on the image itself and it will take you to our ordering page.

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Photos by Pat Coleman (of D3sports.com), Wade Gardner and Ryan Coleman (both of d3photography.com) for USCHO.com and D3sports.com.

If you want to order any of these photos, click on the image itself and it will take you to our ordering page.

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We’re looking to replace our shopping cart and checkout process and need a designer who is up to the task. We have a very small budget for the work, and it will not entail doing the back end work.

If you are interested and have PHP and HTML design experience please send an email to ryan.coleman@d3photography.com.

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Concordia-Moorhead celebrates their victory over Carleton in PKs in the MIAC Women's Soccer Championship game. Photo by Katrina Styx, d3photography.com

Tonight marks the start of the NCAA Division III soccer playoffs. and the first game kicks off with a men’s match at 5 pm Eastern tonight between Transylvania and Lynchburg, and a women’s match at 8 pm ET (5pm Pacific) between Redlands and Chapman.

We’ll have our best soccer playoff coverage to date with six photographers confirmed for matches around the country:

1. Joe Bergman is covering the SCIAC tournament, starting with the Redlands/Chapman tilt tonight and the winner at Cal Lutheran on Saturday
2. Jeffrey Levy will be at the TCNJ regional
3. Daryl Tessmann will be at the UW-Whitewater regional on Saturday
4. Larry Radloff will be at the UW-Oshkosh regional
5. Scott Pierson will be covering the Macalester regional victors on Saturday
6. I will be at UW-Whitewater for the match between the Saturday victors.

We’ll also have some football covered this weekend with Matt Milless at the CORTACA game (Cortland State vs. Ithaca), Joe will be at the Occidental / Cal Lutheran game on Saturday, too, and I will be at the Monon Bell rivalry game between Wabash College and DePauw University – the 117th matchup between these two teams in the oldest football rivalry game in the Midwest.

Basketball, around the corner

Basketball season is right around the corner. November 15 is the earliest day the NCAA allows Division III teams to schedule a regular season game (they can play up to two scrimmages prior – often against teams from other divisions). This will make the number of sports we have coverage for in a news environment to twelve.

1. Men’s Basketball
2. Women’s Basketball
3. Men’s Soccer*
4. Women’s Soccer*
5. Football*
6. Div I Men’s Ice Hockey
7. Div I Women’s Ice Hockey
8. Div III Men’s Ice Hockey
9. Div III Women’s Ice Hockey
10. Wrestling
11. Men’s Swimming & Diving
12. Women’s Swimming & Diving

* denotes fall sports in playoffs

Wow, that’s a lot. And the baseball season starts in February. We will be working the Division III Men’s Frozen Four at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis for USCHO, the Division I Men’s Frozen Four at the XCel Energy Center in April for CollegeHockeyNews.com, the early rounds of the Div III men’s and women’s basketball playoffs for D3hoops.com, the Stagg Bowl for D3football.com and the men’s and women’s soccer championships for D3soccer.com in December. A busy few months ahead for us, including the MIAC Swimming and Diving Championship and a few other conference meets that we’re going to try and finalize the next few months.

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Like it or not, it’s been pretty nice in Minnesota lately and we’ve got hockey going on.

This past weekend we shot both Minnesota men’s and women’s hockey. You can watch the slideshows here:

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