Camera shutter clicks are music to sports editor’s ears

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Camera shutter clicks are music to sports editor’s ears

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to PRO High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels. I still love hearing the rapid-fire clicks of a camera shutter. I was reminded of this recently while covering two football camp events with colleague Miranda Jamison – or “MJ,” as we also call her. On Aug. 1, we covered a multi-team camp hosted by Excelsior Springs at Tiger Stadium, also attended by Richmond and Oak Park, a Kansas City-based mega-high school. Then, because MJ wanted to experience the thrill of covering pro football again, we covered the Chiefs at their training camp at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph. We took pictures at both camps. At Excelsior Springs, I used only the 300mm lens former publisher Brian Rice had given me to use some time back with the newspaper’s Nikon D5200 camera. The shutter sang out with click-click-clicks as I photographed Richmond and Excelsior Springs players in action…

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