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Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:20 am**

This girl was awesome! The only girl on the field and showed all the boys how it should be done. Concentration plus!

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:56 am**

Shoot it like Beckham!

Nicely captured pic - love the expression on her face. Those boys don't know what they're messin' with!

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:44 pm**

What's the world coming to? Chicks playing competitive soccer on a blokes team. What will they think of next, blokes playing netball?

It is a good shot though, excellent timing too. Well done. I reckon it looks all the better because she has obviously got the ball first and the other FOUR kids from the opposing team in the pic didn't

Good on 'er i reckon.

Thanks for sharing.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:54 pm**

A well caught pic - I think the young boy with his hands to his head has them in the wrong place considering the direction of her foot :roll:

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:30 pm**

Very nice Marcus. It is a nice action shot. You can really feel the energy that the kids are putting into the game. Obvioulsy you had no problems getting permission to shot the kids.. He says about to begin to get permission from over 100 kids for a sporting event in 2 months...

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:50 pm**

Great shot Marcus!

What will they think of next, blokes playing netball?

Actually I am organising the school netball teams and we have a boy playing. Apparently you can't discriminate!! So, yes - blokes playing netball!

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:03 pm**

Marvin wrote:Great shot Marcus!
What will they think of next, blokes playing netball?

Actually I am organising the school netball teams and we have a boy playing. Apparently you can't discriminate!! So, yes - blokes playing netball!

Yeah, i know, one of the lads who works for me also plays netball. Although his motive isn't the sport.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:09 pm**

Marcus, Great capture, nothing like good sports action i think and watching the kids play can sometimes be amusing. Girls soccer is a very big there down here in SA where i live and also mixed so yeh lots of good playing games to capture.
Well done on the shot, keep it up.
John

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:13 pm**

Very Nice Marcus,

Now this isn't going to turn in another ''Girl Thing'' Thread is it :shock:

I think we are all still recovering from the the last little ''Ditty''

Keep up a the great shots.

Mic. :wink:

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:18 pm**

Mal wrote:Very nice Marcus. It is a nice action shot. You can really feel the energy that the kids are putting into the game. Obvioulsy you had no problems getting permission to shot the kids.. He says about to begin to get permission from over 100 kids for a sporting event in 2 months...

Mal...funny you should mention that. I was quite concerned about standing on the sideline with a lens that can be very intimidating to those observing (70-200 VR). I was stand in manager for my team (unfortunately the green & gold side! that my 11 year old plays in), so there were no problems there. I knew most of the parents from our team.

As far as the other team goes I mentioned to one of the mothers that I was going to take a few shots and had paperwork with me to show I had been cleared by NSW Sport & Rec to work with children. She said go for it and thanked me for letting her know. So I guess she passed on this info to other parents of the kids in her team. I also had my other son (6 years old) following me around like a shadow. That being said, I was nervous for the first ten minutes of photographing kind of half expecting a tap on the shoulder and ready to reach for the paperwork in my back pocket!

It was a trial game and only went for 35mins, so with trying to do the manager thing as well as looking after the 6 year old I really had only about 10 mins to shoot. The time it would have taken me to get around to all the parents individually..............well I would have been there an hour after the game was over before I could start!

I would like to shoot kids sports photography for all the parents & thier families to enjoy but its a tough issue and at the moment I'm not sure how to go about it.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:50 pm**

Marcus,

what kind of paperwork/clearence did you have and what is involved in getting it.

I took some shots last weekend at my nephew's cricket and there were loads of Mum's and Dads with camera's,wasn't a problem but your thread has got me thinking.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:51 pm**

marcus you worry toooooooooo much.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:13 pm**

You guys need paperwork to photograph children? You guys as in Australians. Is this a law?

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:17 pm**

Neeper wrote:You guys need paperwork to photograph children? You guys as in Australians. Is this a law?

not yet (in queensland)... but it's getting close to being that way.

I had to get a bluecard in order to do the photography for the school my boys go to... btw... great shot marcus... wonderful expression on the girl's face...

cheers

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:32 pm**

Meh I must of looked like a right paedophile then in France walking up the road with a great big lens stuck in my Nephews face.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:07 pm**

xerubus wrote:I had to get a bluecard in order to do the photography for the school my boys go to...

What is a blue card? Is this the paperwork you were talking about to do the soccer game photography?

What are the conditions of this whole situation? Is it necessary for each and every instance of photographing (kids) in public? God, I was at Tamarama Beach yesterday and took an off-the-cuff shot of a little girl playing alone in the sand, beautifully lit up by the late afternoon light. I didn't plan it, just saw the shot and took it. And I didn't even think about the legalities of it all. I have 2 kids and, God knows, I want them to be protected as much as possible, but it's a sad world when we have to be so paranoid about the lowlifes that we can't take a decent photo of a child playing in their innocence and enjoying life. Well, that's my Soapbox Session for the night!

Having said that, though, I would feel a bit strange if I saw someone surreptiously taking a photo of my 2 kidlets, keyword being surreptious. I did take a photo of a little boy walking along with his father, but only after I got the father's permission. Only regret I have about this is that I didn't get their address so I could send it to him, because it's a lovely shot of the little fella. I just didn't think about it at the time (still got Preggo Brain, I think!)

Anyway Marcus, lovely shot you took of the girl showing the boys how it should be done!

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:09 pm**

Oops, sorry Marcus / Xerubus - got you mixed up (preggo brain)

Xerubus - what is a blue card? Is that just a Qld thing?

Marcus - what is the paperwork you talked about?

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:11 pm**

Nikkofan wrote:Xerubus - what is a blue card? Is that just a Qld thing?

yes.. it's a qld thing.

basically if you are going to work with children over a given period of time during a year you need to get a blue card. the blue card is like a drivers license for want of a better example. you go through a bunch of checks to make sure you are not one of those sickos that 'like' children etc etc.

it's basically a way to build confidence in the community. being a parent myself i'm all for it... it doesn't mean that people with blue cards are not 'those type' of poeple, it's just a way to weed out the potential of those people being in contact with kids.

cheers

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:25 pm**

Xerubus, please don't get me wrong, I'm all for it too. I just feel it's such a shame that this whole situation exists at all. I came from a small mining town where everyone knew everyone and kids could wander around and the only worry was what they would do to themselves in their escapades. I wish my kids could enjoy such freedom.

Marcus, do you know what the situation is here in NSW? I got the security clearance to work with Camp Quality, but I don't know what the situation is for general photography.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:53 pm**

Nikkofan wrote:Xerubus, please don't get me wrong, I'm all for it too. I just feel it's such a shame that this whole situation exists at all. I came from a small mining town where everyone knew everyone and kids could wander around and the only worry was what they would do to themselves in their escapades. I wish my kids could enjoy such freedom.

i agree completely... i was brought up on a farm and new everyone in the community and could be out after school etc without any problems. however... i guess as a parent i've got to keep up with the times unfortunately...

cheers

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:33 am**

I shoot my boys soccer matches all the time, as do many other parents, and I have yet to be tapped on the shoulder......this is Sean's 4th year of playing.

I have also been the team manager a couple of times (with hubby coaching) and I did have to fill in paper work to say that I am not a pervert, which gets checked against some database (can't think of the department that handles it right now, but my man developed the database, they used to be clients of his........). But I never carried any sort of ID to prove I had been cleared.

Cheers
Deb

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