Until Dec. 31, the Tri-City News looks back on some of our favourite photos from 2024.
Each day, we are posting one image along with commentary about what it took to get that photo and the story it conveys.
While diminishing resources have necessitated more reliance on submitted photos and even social media to provide the images that accompany our stories, sports still requires a pro touch.
Great sports photos don’t just happen. They require equal parts skill, anticipation, planning, experience and the proper equipment to bring all those elements together.
The journey to this photo of the Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs celebrating its Minto Cup victory at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex last August began more than an hour before the actual game when I arrived to set up my laptop in a quiet boardroom and test the Wi-Fi connection, write boilerplate copy that could be replicated in photo captions and create a draft upload for our website.
In the first period, I shot game action from the concourse, then retreated to the office to edit, caption and upload photos through the second period so we’d have those in place for a quick story immediately after the game concluded.
Then it was back out to the arena for the third period to get a few more action photos and get in position should the Adanacs win.
As the last few moments of regulation time ticked down, I moved down to the glass in the Adanacs’ end, midway between the goal and the players’ bench.
There I was equi-distance to players jumping off the bench in joy and then dog-piling their goalie, doubling my odds of capturing their moment of unbridled elation.
Our first run with early photos was posted to our website within a half hour of the game’s end then was updated about an hour after that with the jubilation and trophy photos.
Champions! Coquitlam Jr. Adanacs lock down fourth Minto Cup https://t.co/qxZS9oucgd
— Tri-City News (@TriCityNews) August 24, 2024
