Post your favorite sports photo of 2009

Alot of great looking shots so far. Here's a few of my fav's...the first one being my son. Keep'em coming.

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jfisanick wrote in post #9308109
Took thks during Preseason Hockey, Detroit's Brad May squaring one in the face of Tornoto's Jay Rosehill.

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Looks like Rosey probably lost that one He spent a little time playing college hockey here but the goon mentality doesn't go over well with the zebras!

I thought we already did this?

This is one of my favorite shots, the weather was horrible.

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Thanks for asking! Here are a couple:

I loved taking this photo:

Great thread.

I have a few I'm happy about. I'll post two to keep it simple.

This first one is a wide receiver making a great catch. He broke those tackles and scored a touchdown on this play.

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Well you are all good at taking pictures but horrible at counting or following rules

eigga wrote in post #9310715
Well you are all good at taking pictures but horrible at counting or following rules

Amen brother!

Awesome shots ITT>

Sadly my favorite sports photo I've taken this year is of a "zebra".

I'm a hobbyist, but being one notch above a typical GWC I was asked to shoot a youth football game by a friend with a son on the team. I got a ton of great advice from the folks in this forum, so when the "big pass" came I was more or less in the right position to get the shot. He caught the ball, and my friend's team (in purple) went on to win the game.

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That's a nice timed catch by the kid and the photographer both...even caught him in mid blink like the rest of us who are shooting more than just once in a while I wish there were pylons on the sideline to mark where he was to show that it was a scoring catch, but what can ya do?

SOme great images here. I wish everyone would tell us a little something about the image they have posted. They say pictures are worth a 1000 words, but they don't tell the whole story of why the image is important to the person posting it. Please tell us why you posted it and why it's important to you.

As for me, I have only just this past year got into sports photography. It kind of started for me back in May at the Giro d'Italia in Italy. Big time Bicycle racing of all things. Then Olympic Speed Skating and youth football followed by NFL football and Major League Baseball and now youth Basketball.

With all that in 2009 I have a lot of pretty good images to choose from, but I keep coming back to two images fom the youth football this past Fall. One a mistake of sorts and the other a last ditch effort.

The refs had been getting in front of me all game long and had screwed up several nice shots that I had lined up. In this one, I knew the ref was to my right and I didn't think he'd step into the end zone to make the call, but he did and he stepped right in front of me, again. The camera refocused on his high contrast shirt and I took the frame. At first I didn't think much of it, but it has grown on me. You don't know who scored, you can't see anyone's face, but you know exactly what has just happened and it's good for one team. Let's just say that in this case, good guys wear black!