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The first football through my lens in 2020 arrived in the form of a grassroots football photography commission. Its location was a sprawl of Cardiff council pitches and an old stomping ground of mine, Trelai Park. A few football playing memories came flying back. My memory bank of playing football is substantial. From primary school […]
Football photography sometimes seems like a ridiculous, unprofitable and sentimental enterprise. It’s incredibly competitive and massively popular, the marriage of two common passions: football and photography. Lots of people are obsessive about both. Canon and Nikon are two of the most dominant brands in the world for a reason. There’s often the idle thought that images […]
As the new 2015/16 football season has edged slowly edged nearer, I photographed a couple of gentle, at times slightly too friendly pre-season friendlies. Here’s a round-up of three games. The first was an almost entirely forgettable 0-0 draw between Newport County and Queens Park Rangers at a rain-soaked Rodney Parade. Newport County’s new manager […]
The Wales football team has reached a dizzying FIFA ranking of 22: the nation’s highest ever. Ahead of its crunch qualification match against Belgium in Cardiff on June 12th, many supporters are still giddy at the hope of qualifying for Euro 2016 – which would be the country’s first major tournament since 1958. How much […]
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Football photography lessons
24th September 2014
by Mark Hawkins
As my experience of photographing sport and particularly football matches has developed over the last 12 months, a few things have occurred to me 1. While you know you’re likely to encounter a run of bad luck, it still bites. My last two games I have sat behind one goal, with all the action happening […]