{"id":27041,"date":"2023-03-30T21:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27041"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:44:08","slug":"my-favorites-part-7-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27041","title":{"rendered":"My Favorites: Part 7 Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To finish off my sharing of my images from past, I decided to share a few sports images. \u00a0I used try do a lot of sports, but not some anymore. \u00a0Above is one of my favorite shots of the great running back Earl Campbell. \u00a0I have often seen it take 7 people to bring him down! \u00a0I asked this defensive back for Cincinnati, ” Is it really that hard to tackle Earl?” \u00a0His response was, \u00a0“have you ever heard of AmTrak?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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After having been the Washington Redskins official photographer for a couple of seasons, I later went back to cover a game with the Tennessee Titans. \u00a0This was one of my favorite shots, it was my first NFL game using an auto-focus lens! \u00a0Wow, was that’s a lot easier!<\/span><\/p>\n

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When covering NASCAR I had to learn to really do good pans. \u00a0(Moving the camera and lens following a subject) \u00a0At 170 mph it is tough. \u00a0The first 200 shots are empty frames or front or back bumpers, but with little practice you start to get it!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The same principle is used for a race horse, this was a practice session a the Kentucky Derby, which I covered 9 times.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had the opportunity to cover 10 Masters Golf Tournaments during my Nikon days. \u00a0It was at the Masters that I got this shot of tiger Woods.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the most fun things to do at the Masters was go down to the Interview room and photograph the luminaries that were often there. \u00a0this was a great opportunity to photograph 3 of the greatest golfers ever, together, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas and Gary Player.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  To finish off my sharing of my images from past, I decided to share a few sports images. \u00a0I used try do a lot of sports, but not some anymore. \u00a0Above is one of my favorite shots of the great running back Earl Campbell. \u00a0I have often seen it take 7 people to bring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27051,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions\/27051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}