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|| SportsShooter.com: Leading Off: 2009-12-28
Leading Off: Sports Shooter Newsletter Decade Collection
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter
Photo by Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY
Atlanta, Ga. - Super Bowl XXXIV, St. Louis Rams v. Tennessee Titans. Titan's Kevin Dyson tries to stretch across the goal line on the final play of the game. He is stopped by the Rams' Mike Jones.
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Ten years is a long time. For a professional photographer, 10 years of work is a lot to consider.
Every year begins with hope and ends with anticipation of better things ahead. I have been lucky to have friends and family that have put up with my eccentricities over the years, the most time consuming of which has been putting out this newsletter every month.
As this decade ends, I wanted to commemorated its passing by collecting images from these special people that have helped me over the years. I asked them to select an image of theirs that is historic, unique, revealing or memorable.
Most of all, I wanted the image to be something personal … an image special to them.
After the usual coaxing and cajoling, the group of images and stories behind them is a microcosm of what I envisioned the Sports Shooter Newsletter to be: Educational, enlightening, entertaining and inspiring.
As I said when this newsletter started way back in the Summer of 1998, my mission is: Photographers telling their stories in their words.
For me, this decade began with a photograph that summed up why I love sports photography and what sports photojournalism is all about. As time was running out in Super Bowl XXIV, the Tennessee Titans were marching down the field, with the St. Louis Rams, clinging to a 23-16 lead. On the final play of the game, quarterback Steve McNair connected with receiver Kevin Dyson and as he stretched his body from the two to get the football over the goal line, Rams linebacker Mike Jones stops him as the clock runs out.
Up until that second, I probably had my crummiest game of the season. That play and that photograph set the tone for me for that year and for the rest of my career: Keep on grinding. Stay positive. Be prepared.
Thanks to: Robert Beck, Matt Brown, Dave Burnett, Darren Carroll, Bob Deutsch, Dave Honl, Chuck Liddy, Brad Mangin, Rod Mar, Matt Mendelsohn, Don Miralle, Peter Read Miller, Paul Morse, Trent Nelson, Anne Ryan, Robert Seale, Wally Skalij, Pete Souza, Jack Gruber and Vince Laforet for contributing to the Sports Shooter Newsletter’s Decade Collection and especially for their support of this newsletter and workshops … and most of all their friendship.
Mahalo!
In This Issue:
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Decade Collection: Robert Beck ::.. |
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| Robert Beck, Sports Illustrated |
Los Angeles Coliseum
October 9, 2004
#1 USC 23 vs. #7 Cal 17
Attendance: 90,211
It is pretty hard to come up with a one good picture from a whole decade of work. First of all, my archiving system is fairly poor. If I had a goo ...
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Decade Collection: Matt Brown ::.. |
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| Matt Brown |
They say "third times a charm". When it came to Cal State Fullerton baseball and me that is true. In 2001 and 2003 I traveled with the baseball team to the College World Series, both times we left Omaha wondering what went wrong.
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Decade Collection: David Burnett ::.. |
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| David Burnett |
When I was in high school and then in college (Colorado College) I definitely thought of myself as a sports photographer. I probably thought of myself as a damn good one.
But in photography, as in most things in life, the more y ...
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Decade Collection: Darren Carroll ::.. |
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| Darren Carroll |
Photographed as part of a project of portraits of former U.S. Ryder Cup team captains for Sports Illustrated, this photograph is my favorite one of the past decade. Is it my best one? Maybe not --- but there’s a difference. “ ...
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Decade Collection: Bob Deutsch ::.. |
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| Bob Deutsch, USA TODAY |
The Kahuna asked a few of us to pick our favorite photo from the last decade, and for me that's an impossible task. But at least now, today, the one that I picked is the moment Obama walked out for his inauguration. Not because it’s ...
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Decade Collection: David Eulitt ::.. |
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| David Eulitt, Kansas City Star |
This isn't my best photo of the decade, or even for that matter, a good one.
But this photo has enormous personal meaning to me as it represents a professional and personal dream realized. In 2004, I was amazingly fortunate to co ...
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Decade Collection: David Honl ::.. |
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| David Honl |
I've been reflecting on a lot of my pictures lately, and these two were the most thought provoking and meaningful to me. No lighting setups, no subjects, and just me all alone in the spaces.
The hallway picture is from the "Prog ...
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Decade Collection: Chuck Liddy ::.. |
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| Chuck Liddy, The News & Observer |
Over 10 years, it's pretty hard to sort out a favorite photo but sometimes you make one that sticks with you. And one of the best things is when it is a recent photo.
It always makes me feel pretty good when someone asks, "what ...
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Decade Collection: Brad Mangin ::.. |
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| Brad Mangin |
When the first issue of the Sports Shooter Newsletter came out on August 28, 1998 I was shooting chrome, cruising the Internet on my Apple PowerBook 520c on a 19.2 baud dial-up modem, and San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds had ...
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Decade Collection: Rod Mar ::.. |
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| Rod Mar |
The oldest sports photography cliché in the book says that a great sports photo should have two faces and a ball.
This image doesn't have a ball, but it certainly has a lot of faces.
I shot this frame during a Seattle Mariners ...
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Decade Collection: Peter Read Miller ::.. |
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| Peter Read Miller, Sports Illustrated |
This photo of Reggie Bush was taken in November of 2005. It was part of a project to shoot portraits of as many members of the 2005 USC Football team as possible. Since USC would not allow me to set up on their practice field or in ...
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Decade Collection: Paul Morse ::.. |
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| Paul Morse |
I took this photo of President and Mrs. Obama during the Presidential Inauguration parade on January 20, 2009. This moment was quite significant for me as it was the third inauguration I had been a part of since moving to Washingto ...
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Decade Collection: Matt Mendelsohn ::.. |
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| Matt Mendelsohn |
I wanted to be part of the inauguration of Barack Obama in a way that felt meaningful, not simply freezing my ass off in the cold for one parade picture. And, as usually is the case, something fell into my lap at the last minute.
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Decade Collection: Donald Miralle ::.. |
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| Donald Miralle |
In the summer of 2000, I was single, living in a crappy apartment in LA, and struggling financially. I was about three and a half years into my position at Allsport Photography, and was still a very young photographer just trying to ...
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Decade Collection: Trent Nelson ::.. |
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| Trent Nelson, Salt Lake Tribune |
I'll just tell you the truth. For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City I was assigned to the sliding sports at the Utah Olympic Park: Bobsled, skeleton, and luge. As the games drew near I covered all of the World Cup events th ...
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Decade Collection: Robert Seale ::.. |
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| Robert Seale |
This image of LaDainian Tomlinson, taken for the Sporting News back in the Fall of 2004, is one of my all time favorites.
I've always strived to capture athletes in some sort of context, but 9 times out of 10, especially w ...
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Decade Collection: Wally Skalij ::.. |
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| Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times |
Back in high school being a Lakers fan, I went to my first game with some buddies and sat way at the top of the Forum watching great players like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Michael Cooper and Kurt Rambis. I re ...
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Decade Collection: Anne Ryan ::.. |
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| Anne Ryan |
I was fortunate enough to meet and photograph author and historian Studs Terkel twice during my career, once in 1997 and again in 2007. The first time I photographed him I was a staff photographer for USA TODAY. Photo editor ...
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Decade Collection: Pete Souza ::.. |
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| Pete Souza, White House |
I consider myself one of the luckiest photographers on the planet to be in the position I’m in: documenting President Obama as his chief official White House photographer.
Rather than choose a “weighty” picture, I went with a ph ...
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Decade Collection: Vincent Laforet ::.. |
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| Vincent Laforet |
I’ve always found it interesting to study how a career takes shape. It’s a very interesting mix of things you try to make happen, things that fail to happen, and a convergence of events often completely out of your control that many ...
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Decade Collection: Robert Hanashiro ::.. |
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| Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY |
Through a lot of hard work by Life section picture editor Jym Wilson, in 2007 USA TODAY became one of just three news organizations with backstage access to the Academy Awards.
This exclusive access enabled me to make phot ...
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Decade Collection: Jack Gruber ::.. |
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| Jack Gruber, USA TODAY |
There is one image from the past ten years that brings a smile to my face while also reminding me of just how stupid and naïve I can be at times and just how lucky I am to be here today.
In 2004, while on a week-long mission with ...
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