In 2008, just moments before the Boston Celtics defeated the Lakers to win the NBA Championship, Brian Babineau spotted Celtics All-Star Paul Pierce approaching Coach Doc Rivers with a cooler full of Gatorade.
Instinctively, he got up, backed off, lifted his camera and pressed the shutter.
The iconic shot of Rivers under a deluge of orange electrolytes is one that basketball fans will look back on years from now and treasure.
But today is just a regular day for the Celtics team photographer more commonly known as “Babs.” Read along as we follow Babineau for the day at a Celtics home game against the Utah Jazz and learn what it takes to be Boston’s go-to pro-sports photographer.
(…)
Read the rest of Brian “Babs” Babineau: Boston’s Premier Pro Sports Photographer (991 words)
© laurel for Photojojo, 2016. |
Permalink |
No comment |
Add to
del.icio.us
Post tags: