The skating lesson

[RBSinTo]

Our youngest grand-child five-year old Evan recently decided he wanted to play hockey and so was signed up for skating lessons by our Daughter. Being retired, my Wife and I take him to his weekly lesson and I bring along a camera so his family can see his progress from week to week.
Last Friday at one point Evan and his instructor were standing along the boards on the other side of the rink engaged in conversation, and as I watched them through the viewfinder, the scene reminded me of a Norman Rockwell painting, and I grabbed this shot.
Nikon D3
zoom-Nikkor 70-200 2.8 G ED-IF AF-S VR
f3.2 @ 1/320, ISO 3,200

[rachel]

He looks very cute!

(But the instructor looks about 15 and I feel very old.....)

[shreds]

I love the way you have captured the intensity of the conversation, without words. Good eye to eye contact between them.

[RBSinTo]

Rachel, Ian,
Thanks for commenting.
Rachel,
This particular skating school uses a large number of young, but highly skilled hockey players to coach the children, and this particular instructor is likely only fifteen or sixteen years old.
Ian,
Their interaction makes the shot and was the very reason I grabbed it.
Robert

[Manfred M]

I remember many decades ago when my brother, who is 5-1/2 years younger than me, went through "power skating" school for hockey. The instructors were all figure skaters.

Too bad about all the advertising on the boards; the "old fashioned" plain white boards made photography so much easier.

[RBSinTo]

I remember many decades ago when my brother, who is 5-1/2 years younger than me, went through "power skating" school for hockey. The instructors were all figure skaters.

Too bad about all the advertising on the boards; the "old fashioned" plain white boards made photography so much easier.

Manfred,
Thanks for commenting.
There is a group of young but elite figure skaters who have the ice before one of my hockey games, and although we have some very good ex-rep. players in the game, none of them can hold a candle to these figure skaters when it comes to speed or skating ability. It is no surprise that the most enlightened hockey teams amateur or professional have figure skaters to teach their players skating skills.
We spectators at Evan's skating classes are limited to standing in the players' benches (as the arena has no other seating) so my photographic vantage points are limited, and the boards opposite us are covered with advertising which appears in almost all the shots. It's a reality of life in virtually all rinks today.
Robert.

[lovelife65]

nicely done robert. love to see the kids teaching the children.

[RBSinTo]

Thanks Sharon.
Robert

[rpcrowe]

Great interaction between the two subjects...

[RBSinTo]

Thanks Richard.
Robert