be proud, run big

Once again, in true Seahawk fashion, another game came down to the final minutes. A touchdown in the corner of the end zone gave us the lead at the near end of the game. Being a mid-day game, the light was cutting around the field. Which produced some great images, like the Shaun Alexander picture below running through the light. It also produced some nasty backlit situations, like the lead on the front page.

This was a situation were the final play was obviously important since it won the game, but if I had something super strong, I could probably have convinced sports into running that as the lead image. Problem was I had a bunch of great shots, but none that really spoke cover of sports potential.

The picture on the cover of sports---while telling in being the winning touchdown and has a nice in-your-face feel to it, has technical issues. It's horrible backlit---shot on an older camera and frankly isn't 100% sharp. (it was pushing being newspaper sharp.) You can see the receivers' face pretty well though, which was a good thing. So what to do in this situation? Run big and be proud!

When a copy editor came over to me and the other picture editor working the desk that night to compliment the great picture, we look at each other and realized that sometimes perhaps we are too hard on pictures and that non-photographer types can look past all the problems we had with the picture.



(below) Had the Seahawks lost this game----this picture would have been perfect 6 columns on the cover.----