It's official now: Indoor Cricket World/Dusty Dingo Photography is the official photographer for the upcoming Australian Open Indoor Cricket Championships.
That includes all team photos, then ongoing action for the full tournament . . .
I'll soon post more on what I plan, and during the tournament I'll try to post some ongoing "what I did today (photographically)". In the meantime I'm going to catch up on lots of sleep: during the tournament it will be long nights editing and publishing each day's photos.
I earlier tonight published a little rant on the whole issue of marketing of Indoor Cricket over at my Indoor Cricket World blog, for those interested in the promotion of the sport.
For everyone else, stay tuned . . . oh, and if you see anything in an ad on these pages that interests you, please click on it and at least explore it. I get a handful of cents for each ad visited (yes, I know, but every little bit helps keep us online/feed my cat/educate my children). Thanks.
Showing posts with label Indoor Cricket World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indoor Cricket World. Show all posts
Friday, 8 July 2011
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Indoor Cricket Photography
I love Cricket (please note, for the purposes of this post, the definition of Cricket does NOT include that Twenty20 advertising-dressed-up-as-sport, how-can-we-squeeze-more-money-out-of-the-great-unwashed, corporate-greed-driven rubbish).
So I'll say it again . . . I LOVE Cricket.
Test Cricket in particular.
If there is a sport with more variety, nuance, excitement, grace, personality, power and intrigue than Test Cricket, I'll eat my one piece of that indispensable equipment affectionately known as "the box". Non-cricketing folk probably should not seek explanation. Trust me.
Of course, not all of us can play Test Cricket. After all, even some who are selected for Test Cricket can't play it. So we play our own version, usually demanding not five full days (like Test Cricket), but one or two, sometimes taking the whole weekend, sometimes spread over two weekends.
As we move through the years, sports that demand a whole weekend (like Cricket), or even just a whole day of the weekend (like Cricket) are pushed aside for other pursuits that demand at least some of our weekends (like Life). So we either give up playing our beloved sport, or we find alternatives. In Australia and New Zealand (and to a lesser degree South Africa and the UK, and to an even lesser degree India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), that alternative is often Indoor Cricket.
Now, I'm not going to explain Indoor Cricket here, when I've already done that comprehensively here at Indoor Cricket World
And I'm not going to discuss the finer points of photographing this sport--that is a future project I'm working on.
What I am doing is letting those interested know that Indoor Cricket World contains the largest collection of original Indoor Cricket Photography on the web. For newcomers to the sport, I also have a small selection of International Indoor Cricket tournament photographs here
But mainly, I'm letting readers know that Dusty Dingo Photography is covering the upcoming Australian National Indoor Cricket Championships, and will feature the photographs of the whole tournament on its pages.
Stay tuned.
So I'll say it again . . . I LOVE Cricket.
Test Cricket in particular.
If there is a sport with more variety, nuance, excitement, grace, personality, power and intrigue than Test Cricket, I'll eat my one piece of that indispensable equipment affectionately known as "the box". Non-cricketing folk probably should not seek explanation. Trust me.
Of course, not all of us can play Test Cricket. After all, even some who are selected for Test Cricket can't play it. So we play our own version, usually demanding not five full days (like Test Cricket), but one or two, sometimes taking the whole weekend, sometimes spread over two weekends.
As we move through the years, sports that demand a whole weekend (like Cricket), or even just a whole day of the weekend (like Cricket) are pushed aside for other pursuits that demand at least some of our weekends (like Life). So we either give up playing our beloved sport, or we find alternatives. In Australia and New Zealand (and to a lesser degree South Africa and the UK, and to an even lesser degree India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), that alternative is often Indoor Cricket.
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| New Zealand Under 19 girls celebrate a wicket against tournament favourites Australia. New Zealand eventually eliminated Australia from the finals and played the Grand Final against ultimate Under 19 Girl champions, South Africa. 2003 Indoor Cricket World Under 19 Championships, Christchurch, New Zealand. © 2003 Sheldon Levis |
And I'm not going to discuss the finer points of photographing this sport--that is a future project I'm working on.
What I am doing is letting those interested know that Indoor Cricket World contains the largest collection of original Indoor Cricket Photography on the web. For newcomers to the sport, I also have a small selection of International Indoor Cricket tournament photographs here
But mainly, I'm letting readers know that Dusty Dingo Photography is covering the upcoming Australian National Indoor Cricket Championships, and will feature the photographs of the whole tournament on its pages.
Stay tuned.
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