A New Season

School has started and with many sporting events for the University and Community College the studio I work at covers, which means I will be shooting more student athletes shooting basketballs, kicking soccer balls, and hitting baseballs, than I will anything else. I don't mind; it is a welcome relief. 

I love to shoot sports. I find it is more challenging, yet more satisfying than anything else I have ever shot. Be able to capture the human body at it's purest form is a great feat. There is so much involved in sports photography that it could be considered fine art. Check out photographers like Vince Laforet and Donald Miralle. These guys (who are just a few of the great photographers that I follow) not only strive and succeed at making beautiful images, but they make it look easy. 

Looking at photos that these guys have made really inspired me to want to continue in photography and push myself to continually making good photographs. There is not better feeling when you come back from the game and you have good photos. 

A truly great photograph captures the essence of the sport, athlete, and unbelievable skill, yet makes you believe it is a fine art print. I am in the early stages of my photographic career and have a lot to learn and have 100% room for improvement. Someday I hope to be shooting along side my heros like, Vince Laforet, Donald Miralle, and Robert Hanashiro, yet I know it will take years of hardwork and dedication. 

Here are two of my photos I shot at my second soccer game of the year for the Olivet Nazarene University's Women's Soccer team. There wasn't much that happened. Between the hour long lighting delay. I only really had the chance to shoot one half. (So there was no jubilation to shoot, infact at the point that I left the opposing team was up by one.) So all I was able to get was pretty straightforward stuff. Hope you enjoy.