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SI pix of the year!
Joe Cavaretta, Photographer
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Robby Gallagher, Student/Intern
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Brookings | SD | USA | Posted: 1:19 AM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> #14 is my favorite. It is pretty awesome. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 2:02 AM on 01.02.11 |
->> The credit on #14 is "Magnum PR." My guess is that it's a set-up shot.
--Mark |
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Robby Gallagher, Student/Intern
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Brookings | SD | USA | Posted: 2:07 AM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> Well... Even so.. Still a great shot |
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Willis Glassgow, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Florence | SC | USA | Posted: 11:11 AM on 01.02.11 |
->> While I respect SI immensely, I don't always agree with them. I rated them as WOW and YAWN categories.
WOW - 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 21, 22, 25, 30, 33, 37, 38, 42, 43, 44, 45
YAWN - 10, 15, 17, 18, 20, 34, 35, 39, 47, 49
The remaining images were good, but not fantastic.
While most of the YAWN shots were good, in my opinion, they had no business being in the best shots of the year. BTW...I did not look at who shot what. So, if i stepped on some ones toes, I apologize.
My favorites were 44, 42, and 5. In that order. |
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Charles Baus, Photographer
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Palm Springs, Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 12:29 PM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> I personally thought all of these were fantastic shots, makes all of mine look like YAWN. |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 1:20 PM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> Image #44 was shot by Tom Dahlin - a SS.com member and really good guy. |
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Michael McNamara, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 6:52 PM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> The NBC shots were far superior IMO. All of them; WOW! |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 8:42 PM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> The NBC Gallery was more impressive as well. |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 9:00 PM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> I must really agree with Louis and Phil. The NBC photos are truly outstanding! |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 9:28 PM on 01.02.11 |
| ->> Add me to the list in favor of the NBC offering ... While there were quite a few really strong images in the SI set ... I would have to say the NBC collection were much stronger as group ... As well as many more from non traditional settings ... Who knew sumo wrestlers were that limber? ... :-) |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 12:34 AM on 01.03.11 |
| ->> Agreed...the MSNBC photos were amazing... |
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Scott Serio, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Colora | MD | USA | Posted: 12:46 AM on 01.03.11 |
->> Wow. On NBC's, #19 thru 33 are awesome. As much as I abhor sign photos, actually staking out one with subtitles for a Tiger photo is kind of cool too. For #10, basically the same image won the Eclipse Award for 2010.
One has to wonder if SI was "choosing" from the same pool. Seemed to be all Si photogs with several Icon SMI pix thrown in.
Nice job sifting through millions of images by NBC to find some nice stuff. |
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Andy Bronson, Photographer
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Bellingham | WA | USA | Posted: 3:17 AM on 01.03.11 |
| ->> Loved the HS wrestling shot. Loved all of them but because I have never seen any wrestler, in the two decades of covering it, grab the mat like that. Hilarious and kudos to the shooter! |
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Willis Glassgow, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Florence | SC | USA | Posted: 8:14 AM on 01.03.11 |
->> I agree the MSNBC images were very WOW. Almost every one of them were fantastic. What's the deal with SI?
WG |
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Steve Ueckert, Photographer
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Houston | TX | | Posted: 9:11 AM on 01.03.11 |
| ->> Even before seeing the MSNBC offering I was left feeling the SI group suffered for want of a tighter edit. SI has some nice images but also some that are, well, just OK. The MSNBC group was just plain good, every single shot impressed me. |
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Paul Hayes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Littleton | NH | USA | Posted: 10:24 AM on 01.03.11 |
->> When MSNBC offers a better selection than SI ... that's bad news for SI.
The shot of the sumo wrestlers was great. Nice to see some youth sports shots mixed in (including the wrestlers). Were any of those photos taken by members? |
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Nick Lucero, Photographer
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San Luis Obispo | CA | USA | Posted: 12:34 PM on 01.03.11 |
->> Another vote for NBC's photos, great stuff!
Check out ESPN.com's top 10 action photos of the year. Some amazing work of your not-so-average sports. The images take a little while to load, but worth the wait.
Check it out: ESPN.COM the gallery is towards the bottom of the homepage, labeled ZOOM gallery. Enjoy! |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:05 PM on 01.03.11 |
| ->> I tend to agree. SI edit is WAY too loose. |
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Paul Alesse, Photographer
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Centereach | NY | USA | Posted: 10:30 PM on 01.03.11 |
->> I have worked many summers with Carolyn Kaster from AP. She shot the wrestling image. Great person to work along side with.
Mike Carlson is a member here. I'm sure there are others too. |
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Trevor Brown, Photographer, Assistant
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 10:07 AM on 01.05.11 |
->> I bailed out of the SI slideshow because the user experience was just so very lame. Such long load times for all the social widgets and ad streams, and the "next" button wouldn't activate until all that other stuff loaded in. I'm on an OK network and it was upwards of 5 seconds before I was able to click "next."
Back in 2004, there was a story that SI Photo Editors at the Super Bowl were reviewing 2-3 images a second during and after the game. Glad they weren't saddled with this public-facing web-based interface for that task!
Sure, ad dollars and trackability are important, but when it leads to slow load times and viewer bail-out, it's a lose-lose, in my opinion... |
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Matt Pearce, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Fort Worth | texas | usa | Posted: 1:45 PM on 01.13.11 |
->> IMHO, you know what seems to be the recurring theme in a majority of these images? "flight" or "airborne" or "in the air" really stands out to me whether the participants in the images are falling, leaping, jumping or flying through the air...
Great stuff in all the galleries....
matt |
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