I’ve always sensed that sports photography has long had a bad rap as any kind of art form, and I’ve always disagreed. Basketball especially has always appealed to me, boys or girls, and high school especially. Yes, you largely shoot what you see and have no control over the game, only where you position yourself, and may shoot with high-frame-rate cameras. But the end still shows the game in a way you don’t see live. Here is a string of three shots, for instance, all tied together that tell a story without letting you know exactly how it ended. Yet, as your eyes travel around the last frame, you see from the crowd, the player, and the score board exactly how it ended.
