This image was taken during the Temple University vs. Army Knights football game at Lincoln Financial Field on September 2nd, 2016. When I cover football I am generally following the offense and that usually means I am in front of them. I followed that program for a portion of the game but because the Army QB isn't very tall , has an unorthodox squat under the center and was running the option really heavily, I decided to stay positioned on the opposite side of the field behind the Army's offense to catch a pitch play or hand off. Thankfully on this play I was fortunate to capture a great defensive play as Temple forced the ball out of the Army quarterbacks hands. I grew to appreciate this image as time went on and even more so when the new coach at Temple University (Geoff Collins) decided to have a wall size image created of my photo and placed in the hallways of the Temple Owls football practice facility. Totally honored !!
On Christmas day I had the good fortune of photographing the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the Baltimore Ravens football game. It was my second game covering the Steelers at Heinz field and my first game ever covering the Ravens. Positioning yourself on the football field is a very tricky thing. It's a combination of analysis and intuition as to where the best place will be to capture the action and which direction it will go. Ultimately it is about making and educated guess and working with lot of chance. On this play my intuition told me to line up in a space on the sideline that ended up being a most fortunate angle for me to capture Steelers TE Jesse James jumping over the Baltimore defenders.
This was a capture from the 2016 University of Penn vs. CCSU game at Franklin field. I was in the end zone and waiting for the Quarterback to drop back to throw or hand off the ball. One of the things that I noticed that was missing from my portfolio was the shot that I always loved to see and that was the receiver attempting to catch the ball. In sports photography the "ideal" capture is considered to be not the receiver actually catching the ball but the photo where the ball is almost in his hands but you don't know if he caught it or not. In this situation I had to make a choice as to whether I would get a shot of the QB throwing (another potentially interesting but easier capture to make) or try to find the receiver he was going to throw to in my viewfinder and hope that I could get a catch or an attempted one. This day I got my wish as the wide receiver not only caught the ball but ran it in for a long touchdown.
On September 19, 2015, I decided to spend my birthday covering a college football game. In the last two years it has become my preferred way to celebrate my "big day"....... by traveling to photograph a game in some new stadium or city or capturing some new teams. This day I had the fortune of covering the Navy vs. ECU game at the Navy home field in Annapolis, MD. In one play I was photographing the slot back (Toneo Gulley) on a running play coming down the sidelines. This type of play happens at most games and these captures aren't particularly unusual but his athletic attempt at maintaining his balance and eluding the defender on the virtual type rope of the out of bounds line shows not only the speed and agility of the football player but the grace and control of form that the best of these athletes posses.
From the Navy vs Temple football game in 2014 at Lincoln Financial field in Philadelphia. One of the things I learned in photographing football is that there are certain captures that grasp the actual action and then there are photos that capture the anticipatory moment and one of them is the QB eyeing his intended receiver prior to a pass. It is actually the type of photo that at times requires you to forfeit the potential capture of the receiver making the catch for the QB throwing it. In this photo I got Temple Quarterback #11 Phillip Walker preparing to throw the ball to running back #5 Jahaad Thomas.
Every photographer has a list of shots that they would love to capture, it may be just a mental list or even an unconscious one but when they see it somewhere theres a check that goes off in our heads that says "I want to capture one of these one day". This was one of those captures that I always wanted to get when I would see them in a couple of sports photography books that I looked at constantly. The picture of the receiver facing you and eyeing the ball he is about to catch. I liked this one a lot because I felt like I capture the calm and concentration in the receivers eyes as well as the lovely light illuminating the scene that day.
This was one of those captures that puzzled me not during the play but after I was already at home reviewing my images. This is a shot I took at the University of Penn vs. CCSU game at Franklin Field in 2016. I don't recall the circumstances of how it all took place during the play but it ended in a sea of defenders (6) seemingly unable to capture this one running back storming through as if he decided to run into their huddle prior to the snap :)
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