Imaging recource: Knocked cold: Florida photojournalist learns sports photography can be a contact sport

Sports photography isn’t usually considered a contact sport. But, freak accidents do occur, and when you’re a photographer on the sidelines looking through a telephoto lens as a fully-padded 180 lb linebacker is barreling down on you, things can sometimes take a turn for the worst. Monica Herndon, Staff Photographer for the Tampa Bay Times, learned this the hard way while covering high school football in the greater Tampa Bay area. In the third quarter of a September 4th match-up between the Hillsborough Bulldogs and the Plant Panthers, Herndon was looking...
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