Blog, tag: sport pictures
Rugby VII Torino vs Rugby Bergamo 40-0
Pictures from the match between Rugby VII Torino and Rugby Bergamo. Click here to see all...
... and another few photos from Rugby VII Torino vs Parabiago
...
Images from Rugby VII Torino vs Rugby Parabiago
A few group pictures from the match between Rugby VII Torino and Rugby Parabiago. Snow fell on Settimo Torinese before the match, but most of it had gone by the time the teams started...
Rugby VII Torino vs Parabiago 23-24
U.S. Rugby Parabiago visited Rugby VII Torino in Settimo Torinese, and got away with victory after a closely fought match. 24-23 was the final score, after a last second kick by the hosts bounced off the bar. More pictures to...
Triathlon is so photogenic: more pics from Aviva Ironman 70.3 in Singapore
There was no live rugby for me last weekend, therefore I have been doing some digging in my "pics that should be published" list. And the result is ... more pictures from the 2010 Aviva Ironman 70.3 triathlon competition, held in Singapore on 21st March...
More pictures from VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia
Last chunk of pictures from the match between VII Rugby Torino and CUS Pavia. More pics from the same match available at "VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia", "Pictures from VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia" and "Preparing for the...
Preparing for the scrum
Another couple of pictures from the match between VII Rugby Torino and CUS Pavia played on...
Pictures from VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia
A few more pictures from yesterday's match between VII Rugby Torino and CUS Pavia. Please look at the copyright notes in you plan to fiddle with these...
VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia
Another Sunday taking rugby photos, another Sunday watching a victory for VII Rugby Torino. This time it was 40-16 on CUS Pavia, on a dry-ish day in Settimo Torinese. Before the match During the...
My first Oval Ball Weekend, the other match: Rivoli Blacks vs Lancieri Novara
As I said a few weeks ago, in October I had the opportunity to follow an American football match from the sidelines. In 2010. Two-thousands-and-ten. That's about thirty years after the first NFL match I saw on tv. Well, yes, I did wait a bit. And thanks to the Rivoli Blacks press agent - and to coach Gianni Brena, I suppose - I have been welcomed on the sidelines of the Blacks complex in Grugliasco, near Turin...
A few more pictures from a rainy rugby match (Settimo vs Borgo Poncarale)
Keeping the camera dry on such a rainy day was just not possible, so I am glad the camera did not die on me. And a brighter lens would have been in order: the Sigma 50-500mm offers a range few lenses can match, but it is not the right lens if you have to work in overcast weather. And talking about this... if anybody has a Nikkor 80-200mm/2.8 to sell, let me know. Despite the above mentioned limitations,...
Always protect your head
Another image from the Rugby VII Torino vs Borgo Poncarale match played on 31/10/2010. The player on the ground was initially hidden by a forest of legs; I took this picture after most of the players...
In rugby, your age doesn't matter
Despite watching rugby since the early Eighties, I have never seen a live rugby match before this, in October 2010. Rugby was not the most common sport in my neighbourhood in Italy, and even in the years I spent in the UK I have never seen people playing rugby. So all the rugby players I have ever seen were in their 20s or 30s. I am glad to see that there are exceptions, and that age, sometimes, does not matter:...
Rugby VII Torino vs Borgo Poncarale: It's raining, it's pouring...
The location: Settimo Torinese, near Turin, in Italy. The event: a rugby match between Rugby VII Torino, the home team, and Borgo Poncarale from Veneto. The unwelcome guest: rain constantly pouring down on players, umpires and yours...
More rugby pictures
Another few pictures from the VII Torino Rugby-San Mauro match of the past weekend. Keep your eyes on the ball Like...
My first Oval Ball Weekend: VII Rugby Torino vs San Mauro
The first time I watched a Six Nations match on tv was around 1982, and back then that rugby competition was still known as the Five Nations. The first time I watched an NFL match on TV was in the early 1980s, and the Oakland Raiders were playing with Jim Plunkett as quarterback. American football has been one of the enduring passion of my life, and rugby is a sport I appreciate a lot. And up to the past weekend I had never seen a live rugby match or a live American football match,...
Car racing near Marina Promenade
Sunday morning. You plan to sleep well into the morning, and maybe even reach that long-sought after goal, waking up at noon, to make up for a long backlog of lost sleep. And at ten o'clock an unbelievably loud noise, akin to somebody switching on all the 100,000 Toyota Corolla recalled in Brazil, wakes you up. It comes from the other bank of the river, a few hundreds meters from your flat. You have two options: 1) earplugs, sleeping mask, and you will yourself back to sleep; 2) camera,...
Faces of triathlon
A few more pictures taken at the 2010 Aviva Ironman 70.3 in Singapore, on 21st March 2010. Sport portraits, if you want, bearing in mind the obvious: these are not portraits taken in a studio, with makeup and lighting designed to enhance the model's features. These pictures were taken hours into a triathlon race, when the athletes had already a long swim and many miles of cycling on their back and, most importantly for a portrait, on their...
OSIM International Triathlon 2010 - #3879
A picture of racer #3879 at the OSIM International Triathlon competition in Singapore. A hot day, as usual, I hope all athletes remembered to put as much sun cream as I did; I got sunburnt the day before, at the Singapore Soccer...
Singapore Soccer Sixes: there is not just triathlon, here
It was too rainy to watch triathlon, today, so I went the City Hall area with the idea of visiting Peninsula Plaza and Funan Centre, And I accidentally stumbled upon an international football competition at Padang, the sports field in front of City Hall. The Singapore Soccer Sixes is a six-a-side football tournament with many very short matches (see the rules). ...
Skaters at Somerset MRT - II
Other pictures taken last week near the Somerset MRT. Dozens of skaters on skateboards and on rollerblades, several photographers around, glorious sunshine (which disappeared too soon behind the buildings surrounding the area). As in every sport, you try to get as close as possible to the action without damaging the show: if skaters have to pay more attention to you than to their own line/speed/position, you are wasting their time and yours....
Extreme Sailing Series 2009, Singapore
December 2009, you wake up in the morning and what's out of the window? Catamarans racing in the Kallang Basin. On a sunny day. When there's nothing else to do. As Mr. Wilde used to say, "I can resist everything except temptation". So out I went, with a bicycle, an overweight backpack and not enough sun cream. A few sample photos are below, mostly taken with the Nikon D300 and the Sigma...
2010 Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore: numbers 5, 1028, 1104, 911, 955
Another few pictures of the triathlon competition that took place in Singapore two weeks ago, the Aviva Ironman 2010. Number 5, James Cunnama, who finished second: Bruce Pye, #911, and #955, Andrew...
Skaters at Somerset MRT
Spent a few hours next to the Somerset MRT station, taking pictures of skaters (on skateboards and on rollerblades). The more sports pictures I take, the more I understand why pro sport photographers love their 300/2 and the other bright glass they have: there's never enough light! I took most of my...
Beware: triathlete charging!
A picture of #29, Margaret Shapiro, at the recent 2010 Aviva Ironman 70.3, a triathlon competition that took place in Singapore in March 2010. Margaret finished 3rd among women and 14th globally, with a time of 4 hours, 31 minutes and 37...
Other pictures from the 2010 Aviva Ironman 70.3 in Singapore (triathlon)
A few other pictures from the Aviva Ironman 2010, the triathlon competition that took place in Singapore on 21st March 2010. Below you will see pictures of competitors #49, #95, #314, #608, #808, #950, #967, #1117 and of another unknown guy whose number is not visible in the picture....
Triathlon pictures - 2010 Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore
I have enjoyed watching the Aviva Ironman 2010 triathlon competition, last Sunday. I did take quite a few pictures, these are a few samples: Racer Dai Matsui (#866) of Japan: Racer Domenico Passuello (#11) of...