Regular readers of
Go
Team will likely notice some changes to the magazine this month. That’s
because we have added not one, not two, but four new photographers to our staff
of professionals who seek to showcase the best, most colorful sports and
competitive action in the Tri-State. Look for their work here and in future
issues as we continue to cover over a dozen events each month. And as always,
be sure to visit our website, www.goteammagazine.com, where you can peruse and
purchase not only the photos that you see published in the magazine, but also
tens of thousands more from every event we’ve covered.
Let’s meet
each of our new photographers: Terri Adams has been shooting professionally for
six years, and has worked from her own studio for three. She loves sports
photography because, as she says, “[it] captures other people doing something
that they are passionate about.” As for children, Adams enjoys photographing
them to see their expressions and their personalities.
Michelle
Lehman is a professional who, as she says, “enjoys the concentration of the
players’ facial features as they try to get their shot in the sport they are
playing. Also, I love watching the child’s excitement when they see their
pictures and learn from their pictures.” Kids, she states, “are the best to
photograph, I think. They don’t stress about the little things that adults do;
they are themselves!”
Matt
Presley brings years of experience with both still, film and video imagery to Go Team. “Kids are a lot of fun to
shoot,” Presley says. “They are unpredictable and full of character. Watching
the kids light up when they find out that they are going to be in a magazine.
Not to mention the occasional kid that will try to show off, knowing a camera
is pointed at him or her. But kids have the youthful exuberance and excitement
that we as adults wish we had. I feel that when I’m shooting kids maybe some of
that will rub off on me.”
Photography
is a passion and an art for Ashley Underhill, whose experience with photography
stretches back to the age of 13. The excitement and fun of shooting sports is
what makes her happy, and, and she puts it, “Capturing that moment when they
catch a ball, slide into home… it just excites me that I was able to capture
that moment.” The unpredictability of youth athletics is enjoyable for her,
because “you just never know what they are going to do, the faces that they
make when they do something really good. I love how excited kids get when they
see that they are getting their pictures taken; those moments to me are
priceless.”
As always,
look for those “priceless” moments here and online – this and every month of
the year.
