I was browsing through Flickr the other night and came across photos of the past game vs. the Miami Dolphins. Ed Yourdon was the photographer who was given access to the field to take game photo’s. In his narrative on his Flickr page in the SET section, he talks about how he’s not really into football and that it was his 3rd professional game ever.
Copyright @2009 Ed Yourdon
I was BLOWN away at the quality of the shots. Take a look for yourself!
Copyright @2009 Ed Yourdon
All in all, I took a little over 1,500 images and whittled it down to 150 “keepers” that I think you’ll enjoy looking at — i.e., 10% of the total, rather than the usual 5% that I uploaded from the last two games. Another 150 had to be deleted immediately because they were out of focus, or because a referee decided to run in front of my camera just as I was pushing the shutter button … but I’ve still got roughly 1,200 images of jumbled piles of football players that will probably continue to sit on my computer until I run out of space on my hard disk. C’est la vie…
Ed talks about his experience shooting the preseason game against the Eagles and the Buffalo Game this year. He said that the most popular pictures where that of the cheerleaders. Well, YEAH!
P.S. One little nuance about professional football, which seems obvious but was still a surprise to me on this third game: unlike high-school football, cheerleaders don’t cheer. They don’t sing, they don’t chant, they don’t utter a word while they’re prancing around in front of the roaring crowd in the stadium. Of course: how could they? Who would hear a thing they said? Still, it’s a little weird to spend an afternoon on the field with these skimpily-dress beauties, with smiles frozen on their faces as they dance for the fans … and who, for all practical purposes, never make a sound.
Copyright @2009 Ed Yourdon - Contest Winner Leading the Team Out During the Buffalo Game
