This was a Reverse Coed tournament in Williston on 28 August 2021.

I shot over 1,500 pictures, because I went nuts with high speed burst mode. You will notice that in many of the animated GIFs, the pictures get darker as the GIF displays. This appears to be due to a bug in my Nikon Z6 II, which I am exploring with Nikon.

When evaluating my photographs, I look for
- technical quality: focus, exposure, cropping
- is the ball in the picture?
- even better, is the ball resting on the player's arms or hands?
- is the picture dramatic (two players jousting, the player is diving)?
- can you see the player's face (no tape or arms across the face)?
- is the skill being executed well, or perhaps unusually?
- is the pose or lighting inherently interesting or artistic?
- are the player's expression, clothing, hair, or sunglasses compelling?

I try to photograph everyone, but between my schedule and the schedule of the players, I sometimes miss people. I'm sorry if that happened.

I shot bursts of shots, and while this is fun, it also left me with 4 times more pictures to wade through than in the past. There are links, below, to a page with just the best stills, along with another link that only contains the animated GIFs that I made out of the bursts.

Rather than categorizing the pictures, this time I dumped them all out in chronological order. You will have to hunt for the really good ones!

I counted 25 out of the 137 still photos with the ball in direct contact with the player's hands or arms (not counting sets). Of course, I was shooting 14 frames per second, so it is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. Still, the photos are fun.

Click here to see all 137 of the still shots.
Click here to see the 150 animated GIFs (this page can take a long time to load).

All photographs are copyright by Jon Bondy.

If you want larger versions of a particular shot, please get in touch with me (jon at jonbondy dot com).

Be sure to check out the other VB pictures I have on my site!