A Tale of Two Athletes – Part II
On the other end of the field, Senior Chris Thomas has been an impact player for his full career in a Spartans uniform. He will be playing at Elon next year as a result.
A Tale of Two Athletes – Part I
May 9th marked the third Boys Soccer State Championship match I had photographed Greater Atlanta Christian playing in. The result this time around was a victory for the Spartans.
It seemed a lot of the action and storylines of the game revolved around a pair of the Spartan Seniors, which I’ll profile in a pair of posts. The first was Senior Keeper John Max Bolling.
Westminster took an early 1-0 lead and the early part of the game was played with the Spartans in a defensive position against the attacking Westminster squad. With the action taking place on the defensive end, I worked several positions to help cover the game.
From the opposite end of the field, I had the opportunity to capture a goal kick and the defensive strategy employed to defend against Westminster. I kept my focus primarily on Boling as the offense and defense revolved around the goal.
In Search of New Shots
After two covering Basketball the last two weekends, I started looking for new concepts and looks this week as the Spartans celebrated their Senior night and took on Westminster.
Basketball has a lot of repetition to the game flow. Drive, shoot, rebound, retreat. If you photograph from the same viewpoint, you end up with repetitive images.
One concept I’ve had in mind after the first weekend was to catch a high flying player in isolation (or maybe with a second player) going up for a layup, dunk or rebound against the backdrop of the student section. Unfortunately, GAC’s Trent Wiedeman missed tonight’s game so I was left without the tallest man on the floor. I was also short a few student’s in the student section as the school’s winter break started Friday.
I shot from the opposite end of the floor with the 300/f2.8. (more…)
The Student Section
GAC’s student body has taken well to the new Long Forum’s student seating at the end of the floor. They have brought a new enthusiasm to the basketball games that was missing at the old gym.
The umbrellas disappeared this week against Westminster, but was replaced by a lot of banter traded with the visiting team.
