So after taking a nice 5-month hiatus from blogging (partially out of business, mostly out of laziness) it's time to get back on it. Just wanted to put up a quick post about one photo I took during the Final Four and I'll have some further reminiscing about Detroit up momentarily (I promise I will! Maybe!).

Of all the great pictures I got the chance to take this weekend, the one that is currently spreading all over the internet isn't a shot of Tyler celebrating amidst the confetti, or Roy getting misty-eyed during One Shining Moment... it's one that I innocently shot looking into the crowd just before UNC's game against Michigan State.

I happened to notice a lot of the former UNC basketball players milling around in the stands, as all the other photographers did, and we were all snapping photos of Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Rasheed Wallace, George Lynch, etc. milling around in the crowd. However, when everyone else put their lenses down I kept mine up juuuuust a little bit longer and happened to catch a shot of former Tar Heel Makhtar N'diaye holding up someone else's homemade sign.

For the joy in every UNC victory, there is an equal amount of revelry in a Duke loss, and I clearly underestimated how much people would take this photo and run with it. I never thought another picture I took would get spread around on the internet more than the infamous Danny Green dunking on Greg Paulus picture I took, but this one has really shown up a lot, and on blogs that I already love like The Sporting Blog and Clay Travis' blog, and my current employer has even asked to run it as a double-truck in their next issue. I even had tons of friends emailing me the picture without ever realizing I was the one who had taken it.

A part of me is always happy to see my work get passed around like that, but another part of me is kicking myself for being so stupid as to post anything online, even on my own Facebook page, without putting my name on it first. So for anyone still wanting to pass it around, here it is, with proper attribution - please feel free to send it along. (And yes, I can sell you a print if you really like it that much - I've gotten this question quite a bit already. Email me.)

Thanks to everyone who's enjoyed the photo thus far. It does make me a little sad that Makhtar is the one holding it up, but the expressions on those guys' faces is priceless.