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ann williamson Sports Photographer | The Topeka Capital-Journal
How did you come to be a sports photographer? I was really terrible at sports in high school, but I really liked sports and also really liked to read the newspaper and see what pictures my hometown photographers would put in the next day’s paper. When I finally got to photograph a few basketball and football games for the yearbook and newspaper, as a junior in high school, I was hooked. I haven’t willingly went back to the stands since.
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I’m able to use my knowledge of sports to cover the sports we cover. I was also lucky in high school because my school’s head football coach, Gary Ekegren, explained the game to me and how the sport moves. I’d probably still be lost without that. What is your favorite sport to photograph? Basketball, mostly because it was the sport I played the most growing up and I know the best. July 2012
Really, all of the sports we cover are beautiful in their own ways and all are different enough that I never get bored. Who is your favorite sportscaster or sports photographer? I’ve been extremely blessed to work with a lot of really great photographers in my career and I’ve tried to soak up everything I can from them, but my favorite are probably the photographers at the Missoulian--Kurt Wilson,
Michael Gallacher and Tom Bauer--who helped me out a lot in high school and college. It just shows that it is always good to ask questions; and they’ve answered thousands of mine. What’s the best advice you have ever received? Get closer. And your legs are your best zoom lens. continued on pg. 22