depscribe's photos with the keyword: football

My first award-winning sports picture

03 Mar 2011 203
University of Missouri Tigers vs. Kansas Jayhawks, November 23, 1968. I was 15 and shot this with a 300mm lens on my Nikon F. Exposure was 1/1000 at f5.5 on Tri-X at ASA 400. It went on to win some awards. Alas, I have no print of this picture and the negative has been among the missing for decades. So I scanned this clip, which is from The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, at the time one of the nation's leading newspapers in its use of pictures.

Soon thereafter . . .

11 Sep 2010 176
. . . the police noticed, too. The lack of the nuts was later officially determined to have been the reason the bleachers fell. Olympus OM-1, 35mm Zuiko, Tri-X, D-76

Bleacher Collapse, Greenburgh, New York

11 Sep 2010 176
No one was killed but many were injured when these bleachers collapsed during a highschool football game. The cause was, briefly, a mystery. Olympus OM-1, 35mm Zuiko, Tri-X, D-76

But then . . .

11 Sep 2010 189
. . . I noticed that the nuts seemed to be missing from the bolts holding the bleachers together. Olympus OM-1, 200mm Zuiko, Tri-X, D-76

Tough game

10 Sep 2010 1 191
Rollei 35, Tri-X, D-76 1:1