Link: Redlights and Redeyes

So LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and I were there together hanging out and….well, there really isn’t going to be a time I get to say that again, so I’m going to take advantage now.

I was lucky enough to be part of the huge team that the fine folks at ESPN the Magazine put together for their latest One Day, One Game series. The point is to give fans a glimpse into everything that it takes for one single game to be put on with vignettes from every angle imaginable.  It was one of my most fun shooting days ever, and I don’t think I can really go back to “normal” access after this.  Of course I will, but now will at least have a hard time wondering why I can come back into the locker room and photograph a player in the ice bath.

Link: Raw File | Wired.com

There I was, loaded down with gear and standing on the grassy field of Scottsdale Stadium for the first time. I had a camera bag full of Canon film cameras, grainy Kodak Ektapress color negative film and a heavy, brick-shaped Motorola cell phone

This weekend, Doug Mills will be in a familiar spot: on the sidelines of the Super Bowl. As a seasoned sports photographer — first with The Associated Press and now with The Times — he is the envy of the masses who have to watch from their La-Z-Boy recliners.

Thomas Boyd

I selected 107 of my favorite images from the 2011 inaugural season. I shot 24,521 images on 31 total assignments from January to October.

Because now anybody can publish, and anybody turns out to really mean “anybody.” That includes teams, leagues, athletic organizations, agents and athletes themselves – all those who used to speak through sportswriters. As a result, the rules of the game are swiftly being rewritten

Lightbox:

Photographer and picture editor Pawel Kopczynski of Reuters explains how a combination of astute planning and specially developed remote camera technology produced a compelling series of photographs from the World Athletics Championships in Seoul, South Korea.

One day last fall, photojournalist William B. Plowman got a call from a friend, fellow photographer Nick Whalen. “He said, ‘you’re not gonna believe this,’” Plowman recalls, “and then he told me there’s this underground fight club in New York City.”

While mainstream sports photography has become blunted by the controlling instincts of administrators and the ubiquity of same-brand digital SLRs, a select band of shooters – often focused on “adrenalin” sports that offer greater co-operation and freedoms – are finding new perspectives on the action. Diane Smyth talks to six of the best.

I shot the USA Track and Field Championships over the course of four days in Eugene, Ore. June 23-26, 2011. The first three days I was on my own and on the final and most hectic day, Oregonian intern Tyler Tjomsland joined in. It seems like every other big meet I’ve shot, the weather has always been extreme. This year, we had perfect weather which makes a long meet much more tolerable and enjoyable. I always like seeing old friends from around the country like Bill Frakes, Laura Heald, Kirby Lee and whole Register-Guard crew.

Link: USA Track and Field Championships » Laura, Frakes, Bill, Heald, Kirby, Below » Thomas Boyd Photography

I think I’ve said this before (like everything), but when I’m asked what’s my favorite weird sport, Kaiju almost always comes right to mind.

Link: Oh, Kaiju. I Do Love You. » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS

To find out what makes the best basketball photos, LightBox spoke with Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli, a picture editor at Sports Illustrated.

Link: What Makes a Great Basketball Picture? A View of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated – LightBox

I had the day off, but the Timbers were playing DC United in a day game. I took the opportunity to load up the Holga and Hasselbad with film. I haven’t had the five rolls of 12o processed yet. I also had the 5D Mark II around my neck with a 50/1.2 in addition to the film cameras.

Link: Timbers and a 50mm » Mark, Even, Hasselbad, Holga, United, Timbers » Thomas Boyd Photography

In 20 or 30 or 50 years, I want to look back at a sports photo and see what the scene looked like not just two faces and a ball.

Link: giving game 7 context – Shooting from the Hip

For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 33 times, on the pages of Time and Life magazines, and as the cover art of countless books. Here Clarkson shows some of his favorite images and tells the story behind each one.

Link: Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog

There are times when friends ask what I’m doing, I tell them and find myself laughing as they process what I just said:

“Yeah, I’m going to Québec to photograph downhill ice skating.”

Link: Be Cool. Be Brave. » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS

This is a selection of some of the outstanding work among the entries for the 2010 SJA British Sports Photograqphy Awards, sponsored by UK Sport.

Link: Page 2 « 2010 SJA British Sports Photography Awards « Sports Journalists’ Association

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Of this series, ‘The Roughriders’, he writes, ‘In late November 2009 I traveled to Calgary to work on a special project for The Canadian Football League. The project was to shoot portraits of fans just prior to the start of the 97th Grey Cup at McMahon Stadium.

Link: Art & Photography: ?Ryan Enn Hughes | Feature Shoot