Green Bay Wisconsin Commercial and Editorial Photographer

Green Bay Wisconsin Commercial Photographer and Wisconsin Editorial Photographer Mike Roemer • Best of 2013 • Photos That Are Important To Me.

Friday, January 10, 2014

It’s that time of the year again, time for me to post my best of year end blog. 2013 was a year I won’t soon forget with the international and national recognition that I received for a photo I took in 2012. The photo of Donald Driver doing a Lambeau Leap at a Packers game won a first place award in the Pictures Of The Year International contest and the National Press Photographers Best of Photojournalism. It also won a third place for feature photos in the Pro Football Hall of Fame photo contest. I don’t have a photo that ‘leaps” out like that in 2012, but I do have number I’m proud of.

As I look through the photos I have a number I’m proud of and happy to post of my commercial photography, but what jumps out to me is the emotion I was able to capture in the sports photography. A majority of those photos are from Green Bay Packers games, but also from covering running races, state basketball championship or even the Indianhead Mountain Slush Cup.

I traveled to Europe with Judy to visit family last year and while there I worked on a manufacturing photography project for one of my clients, but while in Europe I shot some of my favorite travel photography. To prove you don’t have to travel far, I even shot one of my favorite photos from the comfort of my office chair as an owl perched on a tree and kept an eye on me.

In 2013, I also said good by to my first intern. Prabhakar “Bobby” Jayavarapu, a student at a local tehnical college, was along side me for a number of these photos. Bobby spent a year here as a foreign exchange student from Hyderbad, Indian. He was with me for the first shoot of the year when we braved chilly winter temps along the shores of Lake Michigan for a polar bear plunge, but that wasn’t the last of his exposure to the cold. He bundled up in the back seat of a Cessna as we shot some winter aerial photography with the window open and he watched the sunrise over Lake Michigan with me as we did a little winter landscape photography. Bobby is back in India starting his own photography career, but we do keep in touch.

So, here are my some favorite photos of 2013 – photos that are important to me.

Thanks for looking!

Mike

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson leaps to try and pull in a pass.

The Green bay Packers bench celebrates an interception by Packers Davon House.

Photos From The Green Bay Packers vs San Francisco 49ers NFL Football Playoff Game • January 5, 2014

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

As I prepared my Smartwool, Gortex, Thinsulate, Polar Tech, wind stopper, fleece and my foot warmers, hand warmers and body warmers for Sunday’s Green Bay Packers NFL playoff game at Lambeau Field against the San Francisco 49ers, I couldn’t help but think about the stories my dad has told me about photographing the famous Ice Bowl between the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys in 1967. The temp that day was −15 °F and has bragging rights as the coldest NFL game ever. If Sunday’s game had happened 24 hours later it would have taken over as the coldest game ever, but sadly the temps rose to the middle single digits for game time. The wind that I had feared never really happened. After shooting parking lot features, player warmups and the actual game, I was outside for close to five hours and came through the event unscathed. I only had to swap out one of my camera batteries and with today’s digital cameras, I didn’t have to worry about film breaking from the cold like they did at the Ice Bowl or the static electricity throwing sparks on the film as it transported through the cameras. My dad along with John Biever had one of the only shots of Bart Starr going over the goal line to win the Ice Bowl with a quarterback sneak. He had tucked away a small Leica under his coat and kept it warm for the end of the game. With today’s advances in camera and clothing technology, Sunday was a cake walk as far as cold weather photography goes.

The Packers got knocked out of the playoffs when they lost the game 23-20 in the final seconds after the 49ers kicked a 33 yard field goal. Even though the Packers made the playoff for the fifth year in a row, the 2013 season was a tough season for the team with the number of key players that were either knocked out for the season or sat out multiple games with injuries. Here’s hoping we can keep our key players on the field in 2014 and make a deeper run into the playoffs.

Thanks for looking!

Mike Roemer

A Packers fan keeps tab on the temp as the game starts.

Packers fan Sandy Kahlow waits for the game to start.

Green Bay Packers nose tackle Ryan Pickett and inside linebacker A.J. Hawk try to take downSan Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree fumbles the ball, but the Packers defense can’t control it before it rolls out of bounds.

Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams intercept a pass intended for San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis.

Green Bay Packers fullback John Kuhn tries to get in to the stands for Lambeau Leap after scoring a touchdown.

San Francisco 49ers free safety Eric Reid intercepts a Aaron Rodgers pass.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh.

Green Bay Packers cornerback Micah Hyde tries to take down San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree.

Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams breaks up a pass intended for San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree gets tripped up by Green Bay Packers cornerback Micah Hyde.

Green Bay Packers offensive tackle David Bakhtiari tries to keep San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Aldon Smith off Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree tries to pull in a pass in the end zone as Green Bay Packers cornerback Davon House defends.

Green Bay Packers defensive end Mike Daniels pulls down San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Green Bay Packers inside linebacker A.J. Hawk tackles San Francisco 49ers tight end Garrett Celek.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers scrambles out of the pocket.

Green Bay Packers cornerback Micah Hyde tries to intercept a pass intended for San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Anquan Boldin.

San Francisco 49ers kicker Phil Dawson kicks a 33 yard field goal in the final second of the game to win it for the San Francisco 49ers.

San Francisco 49ers kicker Phil Dawson celebrates his game winning field goal with his teammates.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick talk after the game.

Photos From The Green Bay Packers vs Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Football Game • December 22, 2013

Friday, December 27, 2013

I’m a little late with this game blog from the Green Bay Packers vs Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football game at Lambeau Field, but Christmas with family and friends got in the way. The Packers lost the game with quarterback Aaron Rodgers still sidelined with a shoulder injury. The good news was the Bears and the Lions also lost their games over the weekend so the battle for the division championship will come down to the last game of the season between the Packers and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago this Sunday. Rodgers will be back from his injury to lead the Packers so the team and all Packers fan are optimistic.

Here are some of my favorite photos from the game.

Thanks for looking!

Mike

A worker clears snow from the steps of Lambeau Field before the game.

I can’t see their faces, but it looks like Aaron Rodgers and Randall Cobb making their way in to the stadium.

Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones and Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams pray before the game.

Pittsburgh Steelers inside linebacker Lawrence Timmons sacks Green Bay Packers quarterback Matt Flynn .

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders celebrates a touchdown.

Green Bay Packers outside linebacker Clay Matthews sackers Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy runs through the Steelers defense.

Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy does a spinning leap in to the end zone for a touchdown.

Pittsburgh Steelers tight end David Paulson runs for a first down on a fake punt.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger rambles in to the endzone for a touchdown.

Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Ziggy Hood pressures Green Bay Packers quarterback Matt Flynn.

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell leaps over Green Bay Packers strong safety Morgan Burnett.

Green Bay Packers safety Sean Richardson can’t keep Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Matt Spaeth from scoring a touchdown.

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson runs after a catch for first down.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Matt Flynn looks up to the scoreboard after a failed last minute drive to tie the game.

May You Fetch Much Happiness In The New Year! Happy Holidays From RoemerPhoto.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

I think most professional photographers stress out a little each year on what photo they should put on their Christmas card. This year my idea came to me while shooting a snowy Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field. A happy picture of my dog Chica running through the snow with a Santa dog toy in her mouth. I’m not saying that Packers players look like a happy dog while running in to the end zone, but that’s just when it came to me. On my way home I stopped in to PetSmart and found just the perfect toy. The next morning I pulled out my Canon 1DX and a 300mm lens and started tossing santa to a very excited lab / border collie mix. The first couple takes didn’t go so well. Chica kept on picking up the toy with Santa facing away from the camera. After a brief conversation with my model she had the concept down and just a couple more tosses and we had a nice selection of option to pick from. This one was my favorite and it made both my business holiday card and Judy and my personal card.

Thanks for looks and happy holidays!

Mike

Wisconsin Corporate Photography • This Holiday Card Made Me Smile

Friday, December 20, 2013

I get a lot of great holiday cards each year from friends, family, clients and business colleagues, but today I got a card in the mail that really made me smile. In November, I did a corporate culture photography project for a company called Envision3 in Bloomingdale, IL. The company, in a suburb of Chicago, is a premier marketing & print services provider. Tim Itano, the director of marketing and creative services, had a lot of great photographers that he could have picked from in the Chicago area, but he was impressed with my work and brought me down to the Chicagoland area to work with him on his corporate culture project of industrial photography. Tim and his team were a pleasure to work and collaborate with.

Today when I went to my PO box to get my business mail, I was really excited to see what they did with some of the photos for their company holiday card. I was even more impressed with how they were able to personalize the cards with my name and the company name. I’m sure I won’t be the only person and business impressed with this holiday card.

Here’s what the card looks like as well as a few of my favorite photos from the shoot.

Thanks for look!

Mike