Covering the Bruins Crowd

As a photojournalist you have to really find yourself in the middle of the story in order to tell it properly. In this case, I had to find myself within the crowd of thousands of hysterically cheering Bruins fans as they celebrated their team’s Stanley Cup victory so that I could document it for the paper. I had my eyes and camera on the crowd and my ears tuned in to my police scanner, which I listened to through earphones in case there was any major incident. The night went by with no major problems except for one moment when dozens of rowdy fans attempted to tip over a bus. Riot police quickly responded with raised batons and rubber pellet guns and I was there, in the middle of the feuding sides, just to get the perfect shot and hoping not to get hit by a pellet or baton.