Welcome to the Webbpage Blog. Home of Tim Webb Photography. Here is where you can see what really goes on in my life. Enjoy!
Along The Way…Camping Out at Tent City
In the debate over who has the greatest college basketball fans in the country, the first question has to be, “Do your fans camp out three days… just to buy tickets for a practice?” Tickets went on sale this past weekend for the upcoming Midnight Madness. Here are some photos of people setting up their tents ON WEDNESDAY just to be in line for the Saturday morning sale.
Okay folks, here is the new John Wall & Brandon Knight. His name is Marcus Teague.
The Babe Turns 14
It’s hard to imagine that mine and Natalie’s baby is turning 14 today. I love telling new parents that once you have kids it’s really hard to remember what life was like without kids. You have memories of things you did before them, but the feeling of life without kids quickly disappears. But there is one feeling that I had without kids that I’ll never forget, and that was how overwhelmed, happy, & scared I was that morning in February 1997, when I drove Natalie back to Stanton to see our childhood, hometown doctor, Dr. Charles Noss, to see why she was so sick. She got back in the car and said, “I’m pregnant!” I’ll never forget that moment as long as I live. In so many ways, the first 27 years of life as I knew it, ended at that moment, and a whole new chapter began.
I can say that Nolan has taught me more about being a father than my other two kids. When people see him they say he looks just like me. My reply is that I put all my eggs in one basket. And what they don’t realize is that Nolan on most days is truly reliving my life. He has all my characteristics, both good and bad. I look at pictures of me at his age and we could be twins. He tells me about the struggles of middle school, and I think, “yep, I was right there in 1982, 1983, and 1984.”
Nolan is my first born, he’s my military man, he’s my History Channel Freak, and he’s my hunting buddy. Happy Birthday Nolan!
Nolan has never been short on hair, even from day one.
Well…what’da you know. I used to be skinny. That all changed with kids too.
There’s a slight possibility that he’s flipping the camera off.
Nolan relaxing with a sippie cup, watching Barney, after a long hard day at the baby sitters. Nolan was a Barney fanatic!!!
The Cu l-de-sac Kids: Riding the Gator with Cameron
His athletic days only lasted a few years, when we figured out he was more of the hunter-gatherer type.
Taking pictures with Daddy
Nolan’s very first day of school
His 5th Grade trip to Washington DC
Nolan wins Model’s science fair, with what else, rifle ballistics
Hitting the waves at Indian Shores, Florida
Mr. Military Man sits in the cockpit of a WWII bomber at air museum in Midland, Texas
Nolan, Laura, Cameron in the Rocky Mountains
Deer Hunting 2009
Disney World 2010
Pouting behind Mommy’s truck 2001
Looking cool at cool at Disney World, 2010
Along the Away…Small Cars, Big Prize
My hometown of Clay City was host of the largest paying go-kart race in the history of the sport Saturday and Sunday, with a grand prize of $50,000, and I covered it for the Lexington Herald-Leader. I was very impressed with the whole thing. Over 600 racers from 41 states descended on the small town of 1,300, for a chance to win the $50,000. There were several wrecks and tempers were flaring as racers got closer to the big prize. It was a lot of fun to shoot as a photographer. Clay City has always been known for its racing from the old oval dirt round track, to the go-kart track, to the dragstrip that’s been around since 1963. Clay City may be small in size, but it’s big in the world of racing. Fun Stuff!!!!
Along The Way…Louisville beats Kentucky
Here are a few shots from Louisville’s win over Kentucky Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium. The highlight of my night was getting a bath because I was standing too close to Cardinal Coach Charlie Strong when his players doused him with the water cooler. Luckily I keep a golf towel in my fanny pack, and was able to wipe off my cameras.
I’m a Kentucky fan through and through, and always will be. But I’m first and foremost a Kentuckian. And in this game, the state of Kentucky never loses.
Rondo comes home!!!!
This photo is a little soft, but the beauty lies in capturing the moment. Pure ecstasy with the coach that used to roll into
Commonwealth Stadium and beat UK with ease when he was a coach with the Florida Gators. He found out last year that
Kentucky-Louisville was an entirely different game.
Along The Way… The Keeneland Yearling Sales
Keeneland Race Track is as much a part of our Central Kentucky culture as the name Bluegrass itself. When I meet people from out of state who don’t completely understand horse racing, I like to tell them that Churchill Downs is home of the Kentucky Derby, but Keeneland and the surrounding horse farms of Lexington, Versailles, Nicholasville and Paris, is where it all starts.
On the surface, races are held at Keeneland during the prime times of the year, the peak of spring and the peak of autumn. But in reality, Keeneland is a place of elegance that never shuts down 24/7/365. Racing on the track is only part of it. It’s a photographer’s dream to watch the horses go through their early morning workouts, as the sun rises over the grandstand, and warm steam rolls off their backs. Thoroughbred racing at Keeneland is one of the few places in sports where the super stars are close and accessible. Its a place where you can get close and rub elbows with horses, jockeys, owners, trainers, grooms, hot walkers, and exercise riders.
A pageant almost as big as the races themselves lies with the variety of thoroughbred sales that take place between the spring and fall meets. The Keeneland Sales bring together a cornucopia of international spectators and buyers, along with the local celebrity horse farms such as Taylor Made, & Gainesway. These buyers are prepared to drop over a million dollars on a single colt, based solely it’s Mommy and Daddy.
Each year the big question is whether or not Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the world’s leading thoroughbred buyer, will be in attendance. He accounted for more than a quarter of all revenues at a sale last month in New York. When I was there Sunday for the opening night, he wasn’t there, but no one ever knows when his luxury private jet will make surprise landing at Bluegrass Airport.
With or with out Sheikh Mohammad, Keeneland is, and always will be, a central Kentucky jewel. Here a few shots from the opening night of the 2011 Yearling Sales.
