Another Monday, Foundation day public holiday another classic Fremantle WAFL Derby. After taking the honours on their home ground, the South Fremantle Bulldogs came in wanting to make it two in a row over their arch rivals.
Meanwhile the East Fremantle Sharks, winners of 5 straight games including upset wins over the undefeated West Perth Falcons were confident of continuing their strong vein of form.

The game ended up being a classic arm wrestle with the visitors over running the Sharks in the last quarter to win: 88 - 71. Theo Adams was dominant throughout the game to finish with 32 touches while Ryan Cook worked tirelessly for his 30 touches.

For the East Fremantle Sharks, Rory O'Brien and Koby Stevens were impressive in the middle with 32 and 31 touches respectively. In the end the Sharks needed more help on the scoreboard with Brock O'Brien kicking 7 of the Sharks 11 goals.

Next week sees the Sharks given a solid opportunity to rebound with another home match against the much improved Perth Demons while the Bulldogs also have a home fixture over the struggling Swan Districts.

You can view the full gallery of the Foundation Day Derby here.

Last weekend saw the East Fremantle Sharks overcome a 5 goal deficit at quarter time to eventually overrun the East Perth Royals in the final quarter. 

Sports photography offers a wide gamut of photographic opportunites if look at the game from a different angle.  Normally sports photographers are concerned with whats going on between the start and the end whistle on the pitch, court of field of play.  Its true that this offer great opportunities to capture athletes at the peak of physical activity, tackling, shooting, running in what ever the sport may be.  However if you confine youself to this your missing out on some great opportunities in other facets of the game.

One of my favourite places for excellent sports portrait photography is in the team huddles between quarters.  It's here where a lot of emotion can be picked up on the faces of players and in particular coaches.  In the photos above i have included a picture of both the East Perth Royals coach Tony Micale and the East Fremantle Sharks Coach Steve Malaxos. The photograph of the East Perth Royals huddle is taken by putting a fish eye lens on the top of my monopod and raising over the huddle on the timer setting.  I particularly like this shot with Tony looking towards the playing group and his players circled around him.

The photo if Steve Malaxos was taken with him addressing his troops at three quarter time just before the fightback to overrun the Royals in the last quarter.  In this shot Steve was adjusting the matchups on the whiteboard.  The intensity in his eyes makes for a strong "action" portrait.

Finally I also like to photograph the crowd if i get the opportunity in a match.  The shot of this passionate sharks fan is one of my favourites and i love his expression jumping out of his chair after another goal.