Rickie Fowler for Red Bull Photofiles

PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Rickie Fowler made 18 pitching attempts for a blind hole-in-one stunt at the Red Bull Capital Drive in the Georgetown waterfront in Washington DC Saturday, June 11, 2011. Rickie Fowler ultimately pitched one ball, the one he hit in the above photo, in fact, into the hole positioned over 100 yards away, seen below.

I got a call back in June from Red Bull Photofiles to photograph this promo stunt for Fowler’s U.S. Open stint. …and the photo above also ran in Red Bull’s new magazine The Red Bulletin.

In addition to a video crew, I was one of two assigned photographers. The other being Steve Boyle. He was down on the ground level and I was stationed up top. My options were somewhat limited, but I was guaranteed a pretty cool perspective.

The light was absolutely gorgeous!

…right up until Rickie Fowler got out of his SUV. And it stayed grey and drizzly until he got back in his SUV. If we have to search for silver linings, the light was ultra diffused. So… No Rickie Fowler raccoon eyes.

If you guys haven’t seen the Red Bulletin, it’s a pretty friggin’ cool magazine. Super-visual. I’m not just saying that because they’ve paid me once, either. It’s pretty legit.

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