Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
April 22, 2005 • Friday
Yesterday I was working on an article about tennis photography, and I began to reminisce about a piece I wrote for Tennis magazine in 1997. It's one of my favorite published works from early in my professional career.
The article was part of a special anniversary issue of Tennis that focused on the "best of" the previous ten years. My piece covered photographs submitted by some of the top professional tennis photographers in the world, telling the stories behind how each image was made.
I hardly ever mention it on this website, but I've also done a fair amount of photography work in the past decade, including shoots at pro tennis tournaments in the United States and Australia. When I was working on the article for Tennis, I had met only one of the photographers I was interviewing. Since then, I've developed friendly relationships with several of them, including Caryn Levy, Fred Mullane, Michael Cole and Michael Baz.
Also mentioned in that piece was Carol Newsom, another person I became friendly with over the years. Unfortunately, Carol, the first female photographer allowed to shoot at Wimbledon's Centre Court, died of cancer in 2003.
When I launched this website, I included a clip of the aforementioned article in PDF form. But I wanted to add a text version, which is faster to download and easier to read. So I took a break from my work today to type the old story into Word, format it in an HTML document, and upload it to the site.
The article is titled "Shooting Stars."
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