All Charged Up and Nowhere to Go

Sports photography is a funny game with its own highs and lows. I sometimes feel that I’m completely wasting my time going to games, photographing them, spending hours editing them, uploading to my website and sharing on social media only to get 5 likes. Then I see that teams screenshot my photos instead of purchasing them, I get get really discouraged.

It’s partly because of these issues that I decided to introduce a charge for my photography going forward. At least this way I can measure the effect that I’m having and if the players appreciate what I’m doing, or not.

I would be interested to hear from other photographers about their challenges and opportunities. I greatly admire many GAA photographers who see their photography as a community thing, supporting the GAA community with free (mostly) photographs.

I really feel I need new challenges and a new project to roll my sleeves up on and I have an idea that might be be a good place to start. I don’t want to say to much about this new venture and its just an idea for now. Sufice to say I haven’t photographed soccer yet.

This week I photographed two American Football events - a women’s flag competition (Claddagh Bowl League) in Belfast and a Division 1 game, Wexford Eagles vs the Causeway Giants. Both enjoyable in their own ways.

Thanks to the Wexford Eagles for purchasing the game gallery and for submitting their game report to the Wexford Weekly along with a selection of my game photographs that were published this week.

If you know of a team regardless of sport that would appreciate game coverage, please feel free to put me in touch with them. I currently don’t charge for the coverage just the downloads and they start from just £2.

If you’ve made it this far Thank You for reading.

Best Wishes

Paul