Rick Craig’s sports activities images
CLYDE – At almost each Clyde soccer recreation, basketball recreation and observe meet, Rick Craig is on the sidelines, memorializing as many moments as he can along with his digital camera. Rick, the proprietor of RC Sports activities Images, is well-known and far appreciated for the hours of time he places into photographing sporting occasions. A whole bunch of individuals know Rick because the Clyde cameraman, however not everyone seems to be conscious that he additionally has a wild facet.
Along with proudly owning RC Sports activities Images, Rick additionally manages the Untamed Nature by Rick Fb web page which options his wildlife images. When Rick isn’t working or photographing sporting occasions, he’s tromping via woods and down nature trails searching for eagles, owls and osprey. He captures deer, turtles, dragonflies, and anything that wonders into his path.
“If it strikes or breathes, I just about take photos of it,” Rick stated.
Clyde sports activities images are shared at RC Sports activities Images
A whole bunch of Clyde residents are glad he does. Because of Rick’s generosity, they’ve free entry to skilled images of their youngsters’s sporting occasions. Craig posts the images on the RC Sports activities Images web page after every occasion and encourages folks to tag folks and share the images.
Rick doesn’t receives a commission for taking the images. His reward is the gratitude of a whole neighborhood.
“The youngsters crave it,” he stated. “I’ll be as much as three or 4 within the morning processing images.”
The college reveals its gratitude by offering a free move to each recreation.
“During the last 5 years, I’ve shot each sport — bowling, wrestling, observe, tennis, basketball. I went to the state championship with the soccer workforce. That was the good factor, getting to face on the sidelines,” he stated.
When Craig can not make an occasion, his teen daughter steps in
It’s not simply sports activities that Rick covers for the college. He additionally images the choirs, bands, cheerleaders, majorettes and drama performances. Maintaining with all the things may be tough, however Rick has a dependable helper by his facet — his 16-year-old daughter, Delaney Craig.
“Delaney helps me shoot loads, particularly throughout observe occasions, when there’s a lot happening,” Rick stated. “If I can’t make it to a recreation, she’ll go shoot it for me. She does excellent. She began taking pictures with me a pair years in the past, and now she runs the digital camera by herself.”
Rick first turned concerned with images when he started taking images of his youngsters’s sporting occasions in 2015.
“I simply began taking pictures images of my youngsters and their buddies. For some time, I used to be taking pictures in (the digital camera’s) sports activities setting, however now it’s all guide. After I began, there have been some seasoned vets taking images, and I requested a number of questions,” he stated.
Rick gives paid images companies for people and households, together with senior images. This week, he’s been busy touring to native nature preserves to seize images of the spring chook migration.
“I’m going to Castalia Fish Hatchery to {photograph} eagles, kingfishers and geese, and Sheldon March is considered one of my favourite locations to take images,” he stated.
He’ll spend time at Magee Marsh for the Largest Week in American Birding on Could 5 to Could 14.
“I met folks from 32 international locations final yr. It was fairly cool,” he stated.
For extra info, go to the RC Sports activities Images and Untamed Nature by Rick Fb pages.
Contact correspondent Sheri Trusty at [email protected].
