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I take photos from the penalty box of my sons' high school hockey games about once a week...*context alert-I live in Huntsville, Alabama former home to the Von Braun rocket team and more non-native Alabamians than you can stir with a stick...and so yes we have a vibrant youth hockey scene here..its not Michigan but its something* ...it has been a learning experience for sure and most of the time I don't get it right... in these two photos there is more wrong than there is right... but, the story the photos tell (with a little help from text) is pretty funny...
I suppose it helps that I know these kids, they are friends of my sons', I have been called to their houses to pick up my sons when a dad is out of town party got out of hand, etc etc.... Teenage boys are so full of it, bravado, whatever you want to call it, trying so hard to act as if they are 30 when they are only 17...clearly lacking the maturity and judgement that we old guys have... to see a skilled defenseman break away with the puck and skate the rink in traffic, amazing puck handling skills and then, just as he is rushing to the net, the kid with a ponytail hanging from her helmet reaches out with her stick and picks the puck...funny stuff... but he keeps coming back for more...
In these two photos (again I know OOF and more).... this kid *in red* fancies himself a ladies man et al, he has a breakaway and in frame 1 is pushing the puck between the defenseman's legs, and in frame 2 said defenseman is befuddled to say the least as to where the puck has disappeared to.... his body language makes me smile...because the defenseman fancies himself a frontrunner as well...
I wish I had better sports photography skills and a f2.8 80-400mm Nikkor lens (if such a thing even exists)... until then I will continue to use the 80-400mm 4.5-5.6 Nikkor and do my best... but I thought it worth sharing the photos and the story...
I suppose it helps that I know these kids, they are friends of my sons', I have been called to their houses to pick up my sons when a dad is out of town party got out of hand, etc etc.... Teenage boys are so full of it, bravado, whatever you want to call it, trying so hard to act as if they are 30 when they are only 17...clearly lacking the maturity and judgement that we old guys have... to see a skilled defenseman break away with the puck and skate the rink in traffic, amazing puck handling skills and then, just as he is rushing to the net, the kid with a ponytail hanging from her helmet reaches out with her stick and picks the puck...funny stuff... but he keeps coming back for more...
In these two photos (again I know OOF and more).... this kid *in red* fancies himself a ladies man et al, he has a breakaway and in frame 1 is pushing the puck between the defenseman's legs, and in frame 2 said defenseman is befuddled to say the least as to where the puck has disappeared to.... his body language makes me smile...because the defenseman fancies himself a frontrunner as well...
I wish I had better sports photography skills and a f2.8 80-400mm Nikkor lens (if such a thing even exists)... until then I will continue to use the 80-400mm 4.5-5.6 Nikkor and do my best... but I thought it worth sharing the photos and the story...