WE ARE WRESTLING-SPECIFIC MEDIA

As of May 4th, I have 6,313 match photos sorted into folders of 325 matches.  A good 80% of those will be deleted before I start editing them individually for publication.  I have 886 other photos in the "Miscellaneous," "National Anthem" and other non-match folders and will eliminate about 50% of those as well. Yesterday, even with some handy 1980’s DOS knowledge, it took me three hours to reformat my "2023 State Base" folder of webpages.  But now it is a working "boilerplate" so I will not have to do it for the 2024 article.  The seniors will most assuredly graduate before the article is finished.  Frankly, my goal is to complete it a week before Fargo.  Sure, that is a long time.  Nobody knows that better than I do.  I do something on it every day, though, albeit not four hours a day as I once did on a “slow" day.

Honestly, I am still a tad irked about not having to go through probably 8,000+ more photos.  I have an additional 68 semifinals photos from eight matches which were taken from the press table with a 320mm f/2.8 lens.  That is a very heavy lens and I was not using a tripod.  Maybe 10, maybe none, of those will be worth publishing. 

Above are photos of each side of the mats during the semifinals.  I have noted where the barricades behind which myself and the other LWN photographers must remain can be seen through the masses.  I had a hard time just finding the barricades in the photos.

I had a “Master Plan” to cover the six mats of semifinals matches with four cameras.  It was all for naught, though, as we could not see the matches from behind the barricades, much less get angles to photograph them.  There were far too many people inside the barricades than I believe should have been allowed.  I cannot specifically blame anyone, but I know I cannot prevent that from happening again in 2024.  Those of us behind the barricades weald little power.

So, basically there will not be any semifinals photos, and, as a result of my sending my photographers home until the finals, and my leaving after watching what I could see of the semifinals, there are not photos of the CSFs, 3^rd-4^th place or 5^th-6^th place matches.  While driving back to the hotel my plan was to pack-up my car and go back to River Ridge to watch the finals on TW.  Thunderstorms on I-49 and I-10, plus that I had yet to pay my photographers, kept me in Bossier City.  I am glad I stayed, but I am not sure about the 2024 tournament.

The article will be done, and I once again appreciate the patience you have shown me time and time before.  CAT is helping as best she can, but it is tiring.  Oft times I wonder about her work ethic, though.

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ARTICLE PROGRESS

Progress?  Well, just photos work for now.

A red check mark indicates the photos have been chosen and edited for that particular weight class or section.

Podiums	106	113	120	126	132	138	145	152	160	170	182	195	220	285
D1 D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3	D1   D2   D3

Once photos are completed:

Build (or reconfigure) Webpages for each Division and weight class and make sure all menu hyperlinks work

Cover	D1 Summary	D2 Summary	D3 Summary

Add photos to individual pages (including championship rounds, quarterfinals consolations and finals

Write text for each Webpage

Create cover and division summary pages

Publish.

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