UConn at Stanford, 29 December 2012

Scott Uyeno

Scott posts 54 shots of the debacle to a flickr set including this of Chiney in the usual defensive crowd:

Or Jos being defended,

and a number of similar intense moments of action.

Michael Li

Michael posts a dozen shots to a flickr set including this one showing the defense was no softer in the second half:

Baranduin Briggs

Baranduin posts 61 shots to a smugmug gallery. She reports that on the way to the game she fell on her camera, making many of the controls inoperative, so all of the shots are monochrome. Still she managed to capture images like this from the second half, showing the defense UConn laid on Chiney the whole game:

Pacific at Stanford, 15 December 2012

Scott Uyeno

Scott posts 56 shots of North-end action to a Flickr set including this dynamic composition that nicely captures Erica Payne's defense:

(Note that Pacific's #4 is their high scorer normally; in this game she had zero, zip, bupkis.) Click through for many more including Erica looking for help, Jos getting fouled and later, fouling in return.

Baranduin Briggs

Baranduin posts 49 shots from the SE corner to this Smugmug gallery with lots of wild action, including this of Taylor at the start of the collision that took her out of the game:

Click through for lots more including Jasmine doing a header and Mikaela being rolled upon. Oh, and dogs!

Michael Li

Michael posts a small but choice group of action shots to a Flickr set featuring this one of Amber in trouble:

Is Amber rebounding or shooting? No matter, great shot.

Dave Cortesi

A polite red-vest rousted me from an unauthorized courtside seat (yeah, it's all his fault) so we posted just a few shots to a Smugmug gallery including this of Taylor's collision just a few milliseconds later than the above shot:

A few more where that came from including Mel Murphy.

Stanford at Gonzaga, 2 December 2012

Dave Cortesi

We have posted 15 shots to a smugmug gallery including this one of Taylor shooting the longest of her six three-pointers:

A bit of photo nerdery here (non-photographers just go on about your business...). We were traveling light for this quick weekend trip to the Inland Empire. Also we knew that our seats were in the top row of a sold-out arena. So I took only one lens, a 50mm f1.8. Not a zoom, a fixed focal length that, on a digital SLR, is a medium telephoto.

Because of the wide aperture I could shoot at 1/800th at ISO 200. But this was the full-frame field of view from our seats in row 32:

It made shooting pretty simple. No worries about composition. Just point the camera in the general direction of the basket, wait for something to happen, and click. Then rely on the camera having enough pixels that a decent composition can be cropped out of the full image afterward. Because of the low ISO setting, there isn't much noise in the images so even a tight crop is still a pretty clean picture.

Stanford at UC Davis, 30 November 2012

Dave Cortesi

Only one fanpiccer made the trip: yr. obt. svt. We posted 18 shots to a smugmug gallery of which the best had to be this one:

KIDDING! Unquestionably the best was this of Jos Tinkle getting one of her seven (!) blocks: