Author: Glenn Nelson

Based in Seattle, Wash., within three hours of three national parks, Glenn Nelson is the founder and publisher of The Trail Posse, which documents and encourages diversity and inclusion in the outdoors. He has won several national awards for his writing, photography and Web publishing. A graduate of Seattle University and Columbia University, he was born in Japan and started his career at The Seattle Times. He later founded HoopGurlz.com (now at ESPN), which covered girl’s basketball and college prospects nationally, and helped found Scout.com, a network of college and pro sports websites. Nelson is the primary author of a teen book about the NBA, has been published in numerous magazines and book collections, had a photo in a Smithsonian exhibit, and has been profiled by NPR.

The Hidden Ball Trick

On March 6, 2010April 10, 2013 By Glenn NelsonIn Hoops, Photography, Sports1 Comment

I often try to "shoot through" a play -- keeping the shutter depressed in a burst even after a basket is made or a foul committed -- because there are reactions and even consequences such as hair pulling, stomping and rabbit punches (not all sugar and spice, this sport of girls' basketball). This is my photographic equivalent of following through.

Newspaper Essentials for the iPad

On January 26, 2010July 24, 2012 By Glenn NelsonIn Media Business2 Comments

I’ve tried out many of the newspaper and magazine readers for the iPhone and have to say The New York Times comes closest to getting it right. It is fast, and intuitive to navigate (via headlines and categories), updates as news breaks and includes images.

Gone, but Hardly Muted

On January 9, 2010April 18, 2024 By Glenn NelsonIn Hoops, Remembrances, Sports2 Comments

I went to as many games as a guy with a Seattle Times paper route could afford, but I knew them all because of Bob. Tommy Kron and Tom Meschery. Dick “the Duck” Synder and “Downtown” Freddy Brown. Spencer Haywood and Slick Watts. They all came to life via a voice that cannot be described as mellifluous as much as it was unwavering.

Print’s Comeback, Dressed in a Swim Suit

On December 9, 2009July 24, 2012 By Glenn NelsonIn Media Business11 Comments

It's no great revelation that the last decade's great technological advancements have conferred upon vast numbers of us a bad case of Internet ADD. I guess we should not have been surprised that, given tremendous and ever growing numbers of choices, that we human beings are choosing to sample them all -- and often not anything very thoroughly. If content were morsels, then we're all fat ladies on the couch with boxes of half-eaten chocolates arrayed before us.