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TEN AT TEMPLE

Celebrating a decade of photographing the Temple Owls

By Zamani Feelings

November 28^th, 2023

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How it Started

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On November 23, 2013 on a very cold winter evening, I walked into the Lincoln Financial field to photograph my very first College Football game. The Temple Owls vs. Uconn. I had minimal experience with sports photography despite working as a full time portrait and event photographer for three years. Exploring sports photography was always in the back of my mind as something to pursue eventually but at the time, I had only dabbled in it, taking pictures at youth or high school football games occasionally. I got access to cover the game through Frank Stephens who hired me to do the portraiture for his magazine called “Coach and Player”. He offered me the opportunity to come and try to take some game action of the Temple Football team who he was actively covering in his magazine. Little did I realize at the time that this was going to be one of the biggest opportunities that I ever experienced in my career as a photographer.

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This game wasn’t just my first game photographing Temple football but my first time ever attending any collegiate sports game of any kind, so I really was a novice in a multitude of ways. When I walked onto the field (after being in awe of the images of the eagles on the walls of the stadium), this was the very first photograph that I took. A photo of Stella the Owl. Since I was a complete novice at football photography, that is probably the best image I took all night but it is what ignited the fire in me and what led to me developing a relationship with Temple football and athletics that would lead to me eventualy becoming their free lance athletics photographer.

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Despite my lack of familiarity with Collegiate sports, there was an ironic connection between myself, football and my family that I have to speak about. When I was 10 years old, I played football for the Ivy Hill Saints and we played many of our football games at the original Temple stadium which was just a few short blocks from my home in Mount Airy. During that time my mother (Muriel Feelings) was pursuing her masters degree and she took an elective class in photography. For my mothers course assignments and her personal enjoyment, she would come to our games and take photographs. She purchased her own camera and zoom lens and that is the camera that I would also use and get my introduction to photography with. My football career was short lived but my interest in photography was born during that year. My mother later became the director of the PASCEP program at Temple while my brother earned his bachelors at the University.

My mom. The original Temple football stadium. Me with the orange helmet :)

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I only photographed one game that season and three games the next and by 2015, I was able to cover an entire season of home games. The next season I covered all of the home games as well as several of the away games and in 2017, I was doing all of the games and traveling with the football team to the away games as well. Overtime, I began covering the other sports for Temple like basketball, volleyball and soccer as well as covering the Media Day sessions etc. Temple was a door to me covering NFL games before I started covering them professionally by sending me to the games to capture images of the alumni players in the NFL. Without being too wordy, the decade long experience I have had at Temple has meant so much to my career as a sports photographer, in allowing me access to build a portfolio, in the relationships that I have made with the staff and players, in the professional opportunities it afforded me outside of the school and as a place to regularly perfect my craft. I have literally had the chance to travel the nation because of TU. The love and appreciation I constantly receive from the athletics staff in all of the programs has been invaluable and I look forward to as many more as God will allow. The irony that my first game 10 years ago was on Thanksgiving is more than symbolic to me. I am deeply thankful for my Temple experience. Here is a pretty enormous gallery of images, of my favorite captures from over the last ten years. Go Owls

Gallery of Images.....

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