As usual I took some shots on the phone. These ones are all pre-match and some show the warm up procedure for the team.
The GB team took on a team from Russia in a full-on 11 v 11 kitted game.
The British girls won the historic match.
I took a few iPhone shots before and during the game.
I shot the senior team in their game against the Cambridgeshire Cats.
I then shot the Junior team in their loss against the East Kent Mavericks juniors.
We were there to take photos of military aircraft who use the hills and valleys for low level training.
It was a very long day, leaving at 4 in the morning and returning around 11pm that night.
I took a few scene setting shots on the iPhone.
I took quite a few shots of the Hurricanes warming up on my iPhone.
The more astsute will notice the Blades, in blue, are wearing shirts with “Colchester Gladiators” thereon. Apparently, the Blades’ shirts weren’t ready in time for the start of the season so they borrowed some.
It’s the second time I have shot a game down at Berighton’s home ground.
Hertfordshire won, as they usually do during their regular season games.
The Watford Cheetahs are playing their home games at Hatfield this season, so it’s a home from home for me as I spend each winter shooting the Hurricanes here.
I was trying out a couple of iPhone apps and filters.
I like to take a few shots on the phone if I get the chance.
It is probably better suited to the static player portrait type shots as the actual game play can be quite far away, but I do sometimes take some game shots, particularly when the teams are close to the end zone.
The senior team were playing the Ipswich Cardinals (Watford won) and then following that game the Cheetah juniors played the Solent Thrashers (Watford lost).
Unfortunately, one of the Cheetah juniors got injured during the game and had to be taken to hospital, hence the ambulance photos.
As usual, I grabbed some images on the iPhone whilst on the sidelines.
I drove up to Bedford International Athletics Stadium to shoot the Ouse Valley Eagles.
For the last few years I have shot the Bedfordshire Blue Raiders at Bedford, but they amalgamated over the off-season with the Milton Keynes Pathfinders to
form a new team.
I took these shots on the iPhone as they were warming up.
Hertfordshire won the match, they usually win most if not all of their regular season games.
I took a few more shots on the iPhone than I normally do. They played in their away kit, which is white, much to my annoyance as their normal kit is purple, and it’s much easier to photograph in bright sun than white.
I’m quite lucky in that I get access to the players that lots of other photographers in the game don’t get, so I can go on the pitch while the team is warming up or practising and be right next to them in the huddle, or have them running right past me during warm-ups.
I sometimes take game shots on the iPhone, but due to the fact that the phone doesn’t have telephoto, (I never use the zoom function as, being a digital only zoom, it just degrades image quality) I have to be fairly close to the action to get anything reasonable on the phone. Mostly I am taking shots on the phone from behind the end zone during extra points or field goals.
The Hertfordshire Hurricanes visited Northampton University to take on the Nemesis. Unfortunately for Northampton Uni they weren’t set to be the
Hurricanes’ Nemesis; the Hurricanes ran out winners by their biggest ever winning margin, 95 – 0.
We went to the Paralympics and witnessed one of the best live events I’ve ever seen.
hilst we did manage to get tickets for the Olympics, I was refused time off work so couldn’t go, so our visit to the Paralympics was the only experience I had of the London 2012 Games.What an experience it was. The roar of the crowd in the Olympic Stadium was incredible. We were fortunate enough to watch Jonny Peacock win his 100m gold among other great events.
I took the DSLR with 70-200mm lens and got some great shots, but I also took pics on the iPhone.
These shots were taken on a ride around the 13 mile Greenway which goes right around the town of Letchworth.
Maidstone haven’t been a very successful team and today was no exception.
They play in the grounds of a college and I was taken with the design of one of the buildings, so I took a few shots on the way back to the dressing rooms.
A selection of shots from the Watford Cheetahs before their game against the Kent Exiles.
I took some shots on my iPhone 3S.
This set was done in Hipstamatic using the JohnS lens and Kodot XGrizzled film.