London 2.0 - NFL Edition

I love to reflect. It’s a New Year. I’m in a wild new stage of my life. For the first time in my life I look out my bedroom window in the morning to freshly fallen snow and I’m constantly cold. I’m definitely not in Texas anymore.

Now that I’ve gotten to a place where I can rest it is time to reflect again.

Oddly enough, I wrote a piece on reflecting on my time in London last January. After 12 months I’m back to write a piece about… you guessed it… reflecting on London.

I went back to London this year for work. This year I was the Social Content Intern for the Denver Broncos. It was my first time working in the NFL it’s been a wild ride! (No, this isn’t a Russell Wilson joke)

When I went to London back in 2019 I went as a student with a passion for sports. I wanted to learn as much as I could and see what different directions I could take my career in within sport.

I travelled to London in 2022 with an entirely different purpose: a Broncos game. The Broncos were set to play against the Jaguars on October 30th at Wembley Stadium. I was extremely lucky to get to go as an intern and it is an experience that I will never forget. We were there for an entire week leading up to the game. That time was filled with practice, community events, sightseeing, pub going, and of course, a W at Wembley to top it all off.

My main goal aside from content planing & my day-to-day tasks as a social coordinator was to capture as much content as I could.

Aside from my usual stuff, I jumped into trying film photography for the first time since middle school, using my point and shoot to try to capture the essence of our time in London leading up to the game. Most film photos were taken at the Harrow School, Bankerboy & Barrow (the Official Broncos Pub, and some of the classic London sights. Below are some of my favorites.

So here is where the reflection starts: I have grown so much from London in 2019 to now. I have a clear path of what I want to do. I have grown exponentially as a person. I am more confident in my skills. I am much more passionate. I am proud of who I have become.

Going forward I want to make more content. I feel like I’m only starting to scratch the surface of my potential and the only way to get more creative is to be continuously creative.

I have grown so much this past year in my career thanks to so many people who have helped me along the way. I moved from San Antonio to Denver and I have no idea what comes next but I know that whatever I do I will continue to put my growth first. Whether it looks like scrapbooking on the weekends or finding new photo and video projects and techniques I am committed to my creative life moving forward. I love it and I want to continue applying myself creatively every day.


The Roos Graduated!

I was fortunate to be able to take 5 days off this May to go visit two of my closest friends and teammates from high school as they graduated from college!

These two friends (who are siblings) are so encouraging and push me to do and try things that are probably a tiny bit out of my comfort zone. I have learned a lot adventuring (and running) alongside them and I am so happy to see them chasing after their goals and thriving!

Seriously, how cool are they? He carried her out of the recessional!

Reminiscing London 2020

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I have been thinking a bunch about travel. I love to travel and the last few years I have made a point to jump on any opportunity to travel that I can (as long as it is safe). You could even say that one of 2022 goals is to travel a bit more.

The trip that got the ball rolling on my obsession with travel was my 2019-2020 Sport in London study abroad trip. I was always the kid that assumed that study abroad was something that I couldn’t do or afford so I was very happy to be able to take advantage of this opportunity my senior year.

Given, it was not your traditional study abroad trip. This study abroad trip was really a spring course that was done in class (and suddenly over zoom, thanks to COVID) in the Spring of 2020 but we kicked it off with a quick trip to London from late December to early January.

Obviously, the trip was all about Sport in London. We visited lots of stadiums and athletic facilities, spoke to a lot of people that work in sport, and took time to meet in groups and talk about what we had learned. One of the big gems from this trip was, of course, the free time that we had. The professor leading this trip is all about experiential learning (and honestly, it’s the best kind of learning) so I took the time to be curious and explore some things that I love, just from the “perspective of London.” As a result, I was able to visit out the Design Museum, The Tate Modern, and the Jane Austen Museum and got to experience some of the things I love outside of sport.

The cool thing about reflecting on your experiences the fact that you can continually grow, learn, and create new things from those experiences.

I think one of the reasons my mind continually wanders back to this trip is the fact that no matter how much time has passed I can reflect on the sports loving side of me and blend it with the curious and creative side of me to create new perspectives on something that took place over two years ago. Here are some of these collected thoughts and memories, just from a few different visual perspectives.

The Rattlers: Fall Season

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By now, whether you know me personally or if you stumbled upon my website, you know I LOOOOOVEEE photography. If you didn’t…well, there is nothing I can do to help you.

I was very lucky to take an internship with Tony Morano, an awesome photographer that can get the perfect picture of just about anything. One of his many clients is St. Mary’s University Athletic Department so I got to spend the fall semester taking photos at games! This was such a fun opportunity for several reasons:

  1. I love photography

  2. I love sports

  3. I got to learn how to do something new

  4. I got to use a the fanciest dang camera I’ve ever gotten my hands on

Anyways, I know most of you guys are probably done reading by now so here is some of my favorite work from this season!

Cap n Gown

I am excited to finally be able to share some of the photos from several of my grad shoots this spring! I am super proud of all of these graduates and know they will go far!