Spokane hockey

These 1974 (or ’75) photos represent a major sentimental journey in terms of my photography career. I was in Pullman, a senior with an opening in my schedule, so I signed up for a photography course. I borrowed my friend Keith Thurman’s 35 mm camera and on this occasion, headed for an amateur hockey game in Spokane. My friends, Brad Walterskirchen and Tom Harris, played for a Spokane team and made the trip routinely. Tough to shoot action from the cheap seats with a fixed lens, but the guys were happy to have these images from their brief “careers.” Limited Pullman experience came in handy when I ended up working for Wallie Funk at the Whidbey News-Times in Oak Harbor on my first job out of college. Probably spent half of my time for the first six months in the darkroom.