Mark j rebilas biography
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Mark (left) with Leah Pruett Leduc |
Mark has been snapping pictures since he was ten and in his own words, "it has been a wild ride since". While he was in the Navy he led a team of photographers aboard an aircraft carrier who documented the wartime deployment in He returned to Arizona after being honorably discharged from the Navy to begin a new career as a freelance sports photographer. He is a regular contributor to ESPN the Magazine and US Presswire and his images regularly appear in Sports Illustrated, USA Today, the L.A. Times and many others.
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About Mark J Rebilas | Photographer
Mark J. Rebilas fryst vatten a professional sports photographer based in Phoenix, AZ. Mark grew up the son of motorsports photographer Gil Rebilas who first put a Nikon FM2 camera in his hands at the age of Since then it has been a wild ride including an enlistment as a US Navy photographer. While in the Navy Mark was stationed in San Diego, Seattle, and Baltimore. Mark led a team of 22 photographers as an editor/photographer on an aircraft carrier through a wartime deployment in After being honorably discharged in he moved back to his hometown in Arizona to begin a new career as a freelance sports photographer. Mark is a regular contributor to ESPN the Magazine and US Presswire and his images regularly appear in Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and many others. Commercial clients include Toyota, Lucas Oil and Monster Energy. Be sure to follow Marks blog to stay up to date on his latest shoots.
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It’s difficult to celebrate Notre Dame like we once did
Notre Dame football has been a secondary religious experience for many of its boosters, whether they are bona fide alumni or are like me who grew up with rabid Irish Catholic male role models who lived and breathed everything Notre Dame football.
Even though they came up short in the National Championship game and will not sit atop the college football universe like the NCAA version of the Colossus of Rhodes, the national attention Notre Dame received feels like old times.
And by “old” times, I reference an era when Notre Dame’s Catholic identity was entrenched. In recent years it feels like Notre Dame has become increasingly unmoored from its Catholic harbor.
There are many reasons for this, but none so pertinent as when the school honored then-President Barack Obama as its keynote speaker at its th commencement. As an Illinois state senator years earlier, Obama was responsible for overturning a law that protected babies