September 22, 2007 - In the editing room at Aloha Stadium after the UH football game against Charleston Southern. Clockwise from left, Andrew Shimabuku, The Honolulu Advertiser, Ronen Zilberman, Associated Press, Marco Garcia, Getty Images, Jamm Aquino and George F. Lee, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

The Bulletin sends three photographers to cover UH football games at Aloha Stadium. And that makes for a lot of pictures.

We have two edit sessions during a game, one at half-time, the other at the end of the game. And all that editing is done deep in the bowels of the stadium — in the Women’s Officials Locker room, of all places.

There are never any women officials during the UH games, so the stadium lets a bunch of surly photographers take over and sift through the photos in there. It’s always pleasant when we get in there a few hours before the game, but for some reason, it turns into a seedy locker room soon thereafter. I guess if you put a bunch of stressed-out guys who have been running all over the field with 50 pounds of equipment into a small room, things are bound to turn rank.

This is pretty much the party place, most of the local photogs join in, and sometimes visiting photogs from the mainland are subjected to whatever goes on. It is a handy place, though, since we can lock the door, allowing us to keep our computers running while we’re on the field, so when we get back we can get our photos out as soon as possible.

We used to transmit using telephone lines right from the room, but now that we all use cell-cards, we have to run outside to transmit our photos since the room is nearly devoid of a useable cell phone signal. Maybe someday we can get a wi-fi set up in there. Then we’d probably never leave.

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