#San Diego Rugby Photography

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San Diego Legion vs. Utah Warriors 2.18 (Snapdragon)

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Clean White Research

I chose zoe as my model for this project, as she has recently started amateur wrestling so i thought this would be an interesting topic to explore. so i have researched different photographers for inspiration. 

Jeff Bottari

This photographer was born in San Diego, California Bottari had a real passion for sports type photography. When he was in high school he worked on the newspaper and yearbook. He the when on to study at the Brooks institute of photography, he majored in visual journalism and commercial photography.

In his early career he documented big sports company names like NBA all-star games he watched and learned from the elite industry photographers of that time.

For the last few years Bottari is best known for working with a variety of sports events like MMA, NASCAR, NFL, Rugby and X-games. His work has been presented on sport illustrated, ESPN. He is associated with Getty images and has corporate partners in adobe, fortune and HSBC and many more.

He is currently living with his wife in Las Vegas, Nevada and is working as a staff photographer for The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) this means he has to travel to all the different event locations, shooting fight action shots and studio fighter portrait shots.  

 Some examples that would tie into my thought for my clean white shoot as they are his studio work as hes known for a lot of his in action shots of the fights in the UFC octagon. these are also some his most recent work

Mark Mann

Mann was born in Glasgow, he never considered a career in photography until he was on a train heading to Edinburgh and he started speaking to a photography student about photography so he took an interest in the subject. He then went to study at Manchester polytechnic for 3 years the same university as the student he spoke to on the train. He then moved to New York where hes stayed for the past 20 years. 

Mann is known for photographing famous faces like Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Snoop Dogg, Benedict Cumberbatch and many more.

 Mann liked to keep his gear as minimal as possible he didn’t like using the traditional strobe lighting as it took up too much space for the areas he worked in. he also had a specific technique to do his portraits he liked to put the lighting slightly above the subject to put emphasis on facial features like cheekbones.

Here is some examples of his work that i found interesting. 

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Pasadena Royals Celebrate after defeating the Las Vegas Slots 29-7 to advance to the finals in San Diego during a Southern California Rugby Football Union playoff rugby match at Encanto Park in Duarte, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2017.  (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) #Leica #NikonUSA #photojournalism #photography

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2.11.23 USD Toreros vs. MiraCosta Spartans Rugby

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San Diego Legion vs. Houston Sabercats

San Diego Legion vs. Houston Sabercats

Welcome to San Diego Sports Domination. All of the photos included in this gallery are from San Diego Sports Domination CEO & Founder David Frerker. I have photographed a total of 27 USMLR Matches. I do photograph games for my website but have also worked as a team photographer on a game by game basis for the San Diego Legion, Seattle Seawolves and USMLR. ***Watermarks are not to be removed…

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San Diego Legion vs. Nola Gold

San Diego Legion vs. Nola Gold

Welcome to San Diego Sports Domination. All of the photos included in this gallery are from San Diego Sports Domination CEO & Founder David Frerker. I have photographed a total of 27 USMLR Matches. I do photograph games for my website but have also worked as a team photographer on a game by game basis for the San Diego Legion, Seattle Seawolves and USMLR. ***Watermarks are not to be removed…

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Legion v. Jackals (2.12) Photo Gallery

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La Jolla vs. Saint Anthony Rugby Club 1.29

La Jolla vs. Saint Anthony Rugby Club 1.29

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June 28th 2012 on the campus of San Diego State University … I sat down with my team in a meeting room and an hour later San Diego Sports Domination was born. Today marks seven years. San Diego Sports Domination (SDSD for short) is an award-winning sports blog based in San Diego, California. We created this blog to share our love of sports with the San Diego Community and to help cover teams that the San Diego Media might not have the bandwidth to cover.

Since our creation we have been read in over 180 countries around the world. We have received over 450,000 views. We have also won two blogging awards (eCollege Finders Top Collegiate Blog Award and Our City San Diego’s Top 10 Blog Award). We have had articles linked to newspapers and blogs all over the United States. We have worked with many major brands across the country to cover events in San Diego. We have worked with Bellator MMA, Dove Just For Men, Petco, America’s Best Racing, Delaware North Sportservice, Staples and AT&T just to name a few.

We are the largest all-inclusive sports blog in San Diego. We have been guests on many radio shows including Xtra Sports 1360, Mighty 1090 “Scott & BR Show”, ESPN 1700 “Rod Luck”, Talk Now San Antonio (ESPN), SB Nation Podcasts and many more. We have been invited onto a few local TV stations to talk about San Diego Sports. Those stations being NBC 7 San Diego, CBS 8 San Diego and KUSI Sports. We also have spoken with Fox 5 San Diego just incase they need a sports expert to comment. We almost did a March Madness segment with them last year.

NBC 7’s Todd Strain, SDSD CEO David Frerker and SDSD Senior Writer John Kegley.

Back in 2016 we teamed up with Oakwood Escrow SD and Ignite Now Media to create a new sports segment on The American Dream TV Show. The goal of the show was to provide sports stories to fans of the American Dream and SDSD. I was one of the main driving forces behind getting guests to appear on The American Dream Sports Stories. All in all we had guests ranging from super fans, NFL players, Olympic Gold Medalists and more. Below is one of the segments of the show that I hosted. 

Here is a list of teams that we have covered dating back to the creation of SDSD back in 2012:

ASC San Diego NPSL

ASC San Diego WPSL Soccer

San Diego Breakers Pro Rugby

San Diego Chargers

San Diego Enforcers

San Diego Enforcer Girls

San Diego Flash Soccer (NPSL)

San Diego Lions (AFL)

San Diego Legion Rugby

San Diego Surge

San Diego Sealions WPSL Soccer

San Diego Seals (NLL)

San Diego Sockers MASL

San Diego Silverbacks

San Diego Fleet

San Diego Strike Force

San Diego Surf WPSL Soccer

San Diego Guardians Ice Hockey

San Diego Heat Ice Hockey

SDSU Baseball

SDSU Basketball

SDSU Football

SDSU Club Ice Hockey

SDSU Women’s Club Water Polo

Patriots Ice Hockey

USA BMX

USA Rugby

We have also covered some local sporting events:

Integrated Sports Marketing Celebrity Championship (2017, 2018 and 2019)

Super Girl Pro (2017 and 2018)

United Police & Fire Games (2018 and 2019)

We have made leaps and strides to make San Diego Sports Domination your go to destination for San Diego Sports News. For the first six years of our site we have provided game day coverage on Social Media and through post game articles. In December of 2018, we asked all of our fans one question. Instead of posting one high quality cover photo would you guys like full photo albums from events? The response was heavily in favor of posting a ton of photos. That new strategy was implemented on January 1st 2019. Since then we have had over 200,000 views on the blog this year. Site traffic this year has grown exponentially. We have had 6x as many hits in 6 months as we did in all of 2018.

Josh Scobee chipping out of a bunker during the 2019 Celebrity Championship at Singing Hills Golf Resort. Mandatory Photo Credit: San Diego Sports Domination CEO David Frerker.

San Diego Sports Domination has been a project from the very beginning. We have relied on our staff of dedicated writers and photographers. Our staff does this because they love sports. We have had many writers along for the ride with us… but two of them stand out. Olivia Sandusky and Scott Koppenhaver. SDSD has helped both of them enter into their current fields. Scott wrote for us back in 2014 covering San Diego State Baseball on the blog and on all of our social media platforms. Scott did an amazing job. I was honored to give Scott a glowing recommendation during his interview process with the NFL. Scott is now working as a social media content producer at the National Football League. Olivia wrote for us back in 2016 covering Albion SC Pros now ASC San Diego. We connected and I learned about how Olivia wanted to get in front of the camera. I was able to work with Albion to place Olivia as the pre/post game interviewer. Olivia went on to bigger and better things. Olivia is now rocking her career as an on air TV journalist.

So far in 2019 San Diego Sports Domination has provided coverage of 83 events with three more on Saturday. Then taking a break for the month of July. This fall we will be adding some high school football photography into our line up of sports coverage. We could not have done it without the photos of Tony Amat, Edwin Dickerson, Von Ware, Chris Atkans and John Mathew Harrison. Our professional photographer’s photos have brought San Diego Sports Domination to a whole new level! Also thank you to all of our loyal readers and followers. We would not be here if we didn’t have you all! We do not publish every sports update that comes across the lines in an attempt to not alienate our followers. The best way to keep up with us is on Facebook or Twitter. We look forward to continuing to bring you up to the minute news coverage of every San Diego Sports team for years to come!

Check out this photo gallery featuring photos from our first 7 years! 

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San Diego Sports Domination Turns 7 June 28th 2012 on the campus of San Diego State University ... I sat down with my team in a meeting room and an hour later San Diego Sports Domination was born.

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San Diego Sports Domination had the privilege of sending three photographers to the 1st ever Major League Rugby Championship game held in San Diego (University of San Diego) this past Saturday. The game featured the No. 1 seed Glendale Raptors vs. the No. 2 seed Seattle Seawolves. The Seawolves defeated our San Diego Legion the prior week to make it into the Championship game.

The atmosphere at the University of San Diego was electric pregame. We arrived 40 minutes before gates opened to obtain our media credentials. Tons of people tailgating in the parking lots and lines started to form shortly after. The San Diego Legion offered it’s fans an autograph session before the game. They also gave out free swag ranging from team posters, cups, stickers and other Legion gear.

Short highlight video showcasing game and the atmosphere.

Our photography team for the game consisted of our CEO David Frerker, Richard Pecjak JR and John Matthew Harrison Photography. Between the three photographers they captured a few thousand photographs. Pictured below are the best of the best. As always we place our entire photo gallery on our San Diego Sports Domination Facebook Page. The photo gallery contains 285 photos for your viewing pleasure. Please click here to see the gallery.

Mandatory 📸: John Matthew Harrison Photography

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Mandatory 📸: Richard Pecjak JR.

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Mandatory 📸: David Frerker

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The following Media links contain San Diego Sports Domination Assets:

USMLR: Glendale Raptors fall to Seattle in inaugural Major League Rugby Championship match

Fox 9 Seattle: Glendale Raptors fall to Seattle in inaugural Major League Rugby Championship match

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2018 Major League Rugby Championship (Photos/Video) San Diego Sports Domination had the privilege of sending three photographers to the 1st ever Major League Rugby Championship game held in San Diego (University of San Diego) this past Saturday.

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Pasadena Royals Celebrate after defeating the Las Vegas Slots 29-7 to advance to the finals in San Diego during a Southern California Rugby Football Union playoff rugby match at Encanto Park in Duarte, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2017.  (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) #Leica #NikonUSA #photojournalism #photography

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Pasadena Royals Angelica Ramos smiles as they defeated the Las Vegas Slots 29-7 to advance to the finals in San Diego during a Southern California Rugby Football Union playoff rugby match at Encanto Park in Duarte, Calif., on Saturday, April 22, 2017.  (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) #Leica #NikonUSA #photojournalism #photography