My View: Best photos of 2021

These next photos are examples of panning, which allows me to pre-focus on my subject beforehand, then follow the player throughout the whole play.

During the season, you pick up on tendencies about where the ball is going so that panning isn’t as risky. In red zone situations, I knew that Cam Newton often kept the ball on quarterback keepers or options. I’d position myself right in from of him, so I could see his face, focus my camera on him and follow him the entire play. That’s how I was able to get a lot of his touchdown photos.