British Sport Action

[pentaxpete]

here are some pics of 'British Sports' Rugby Football and Cricket taken for the Sports Pages of the 'Brentwood Gazette' local newspaper -- Pentax K10D , Photoshop 7
'Old Brentwoods v Billericay Rugby Fooltball used large on back page.

Rugby 01 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
a 'Line-out' from Old Brentwoods v Billercay

Rugby 05 by pentaxpete, on Flickr

Rugby 08 by pentaxpete, on Flickr
A 'Touchdown ' about to happen for the Old Brentwoods Team
Bentley v Hatfield Peveral Cricket match -- Pentax -A 400mm f5.6 lens

Cricket by pentaxpete, on Flickr

[JPS]

Hello Peter,
you have some very nicely captured shots here.
Thank you so much for sharing.
I hope one day to be able to capture pictures like this.
Kind regards
John

[pentaxpete]

Hello Peter,
you have some very nicely captured shots here.
Thank you so much for sharing.
I hope one day to be able to capture pictures like this.
Kind regards
John

John : You can 'Practice' sport photography like this if you go to a local park on a Sunday -- it's free and they do not mind ! I used to organise sport photography for Brentwood Photo-Club members over King George's Playing Fields off the Ingrave Road -- if I get a sports job for the local newspaper where people have to PAY to get in I get in FREE of course by showing the e-mailed job order, or they all know me by now -- in the 1970's I went to Wembley Stadium several times when Billericay Town were in the final of the FA Vase Competition, which they WON !

[Tony M]

The photo of the cricketer hitting the ball is interesting; it took me a little while to work out what probably happened - that he moved forward out of his crease to hit a wide shot to his right and behind him. My first thought was "the ball is coming towards him and he's going to slog it", then I thought "hey, this is cricket, not softball".

Tony

[pentaxpete]

Tony -- YES you were right -- he is hitting the ball up as you said ! ( it was used in the newspaper Sports page)