>>2678630Meh, that's how it goes. Your job as a pro is to get solid photos of whatever goes with the article, not to create world-changing art every time you go out there.
Plus, snapshots are kind of the nature of sports photography. The point is to get work that draws views, clicks, whatever, and photos like that do it well. A lot of people don't understand that being a pro is often all about pandering with snapshits. That one is also an edit I did after publication, I read an article about cine-style cropping and gave it a try, liked it with that shot, and the black bars made it easy to edit out my waterrmark. (I downloaded the pic off of my own flickr since it was several years ago and not on this PC.)
Here's another long lens shot from the same session. Excuse the blurred watermark.
