Lottie - Lacrosse

[mammarazzi]

A series of action photos of what in Lacrosse is called a "Ground Ball" - guess who gets it in the end! - note the lovely look of gum shields protruding from the girls mouths - not quite ladylike



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[deetheturk]

Nice series Joanne, loving the gum shields

[Texas Dave]

The details of your photography is stunning.

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[DEAN01]

Great series, Joanne.

[rpcrowe]

Fantastic shots!

[JamesScott86]

Excellent captures - well taken.

[Donald]

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I was trying to find if there is an electronic version of a picture taken back in 1978 that won the Scottish Sports Photographer of the Year for a lovely man called Donald McKay (but couldn't find one). It's a picture of my good friend John Mackenzie during than national cup final for shinty, the sport I played (If you want to find out more go to www.shinty.com). Lottie's pose in this one is almost exactly the same as John's, except he has a shinty stick in his hands.

What this also illustrated is she prefers to play left-handed (right hand over left holding the stick). That's the way I played as well, even though I'm right-handed).

[Donald]

Found it.

This is not Donald's original crop. This is taken from a newspaper story that used the image.

[mammarazzi]

What this also illustrated is she prefers to play left-handed (right hand over left holding the stick). That's the way I played as well, even though I'm right-handed).

Yes Donald the pose is exactly the same even down to the dip in the shoulder - quite remarkable! Also although Lottie plays Left handed she is right handed the same as you. When she was learning the game she picked the stick up and started playing left handed and no one noticed. She is as good with her right hand which makes her a formidable player but it feels more natural in her left.

Joanne x

[Donald]

And interesting wee story about right-handed v left-handed.

A remarkably high number of shinty players are stronger playing left-handed, although one of the skills of the game is to be as strong left or right-handed. In the village of Newtonmore (which is where John in the photo above is from and is the team for which he played) they have an annual left v right handed golf tournament. A number of the players compete in both categories, playing one round left-handed and then one right-handed. Indeed, there was a man, Sandy Russell, who played off 4 handicap left-handed and 5 right-handed. The golfers reading this will know that that is pretty impressive.

[John 2]

Excellent series Joanne. I takes a bit of skill to capture the moment of groupings like these. Nice work.

[davidedric]

Yes, you can see she picks the ball up left handed and then switches to right to keep her body between the ball and the opponents. Nice play!

Incidentally, when I used to play it was important when marking in defence to play with the opposite hand to the attacker, so that your stick was on the same side. Sorry, nostalgia taking over. Great pictures, Joanne.


Dave

[bnnrcn]

Very nice series