This blog is about how photographing my son and his team mates playing cricket has evolved over time.
When I began to photograph cricket, mainly to fill in time as I knew nothing about cricket and hadn't acquired the skill of staring at a grassy field for a day, I had no idea of what to photograph so I sought to imitate those cricket photos I had seen, conventional sports photography in newspapers. This meant I focussed on individual performance as per the photos below:
The batsman
The batsman
The fielder
The fielder
But over time this focus on individual performance became dull so my focus moved to the interaction between players beginning with that between the bowler and batsman, which resembled hatred at times, not something I had associated with cricket.
But this interaction became less interesting over time so rather than stop photographing, I became interested in the team's jubilation, the joy of boys in victory.
Which in turn lead to my interest in sadness in loss
I am not sure where to go now in my cricket photography - I could polish the existing themes or maybe focus instead on the spectators, the coaches or the post match shaking of hands. I do know that if I don't change the theme, I'll give up taking my camera to the games and that would be a shame because occasionally I will take a photo on the spur of the moment without any theme in mind such as this one.
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