Photo: Wolves center Johnny Pohl drives to the net looking for a rebound from Rockford netminder Corey Crawford.

The first of a few photos still be posted from my last game out to see the Chicago Wolves taken on the Rockford Ice Hogs.  Things didn’t go very well for our Ice Hogs, but it was still an entertaining game none-the-less.

Photo: Rockford Ice Hogs goaltender Joe Fallon looks up at the scoreboard after letting in a late goal. Although it didn’t change the outcome of the game, goalies still hate getting beat.

The final hockey image from my theme here this week after an awesome shoot at the start of the week. This one was taken near the end of the game after Rockford gave up their final goal in their victory over the Wolves. Even if you weren’t at the game or knew the outcome, you can almost tell just be the look of this shot that something bad happened for this guy.

After all, photos are supposed to tell a story, right?

The Final Horn

As I alluded to, this is the last post in my little hockey mini-series here this week. I haven’t posted all the photos from this game on Flickr yet, and I still have plans to retool my Hockey Portfolio, but in the mean time, check out the hockey tag here at the blog to find the other photos from this week’s posts as well as those from the previous games I’ve shot at.

Enjoy,
– Kris

Photo: The Wolves’ Brett Sterling and Rockford’s Mike Brennan exchange holiday well wishes during a match-up on Sunday. Can’t you just feel the love?

Just a quick post today, and yup, you guessed it, another action shot from Sunday’s Wolves game keeping this week’s theme moving along.

You can only imagine the things that professional athletes say to one another when emotions escalate and the intensity gets too overwhelming.  In the spirit of the season, let’s pretend that Sterling and Brennen are merely exchanging holiday wishes and leave it at that.

Have a safe and happy New Year’s celebration everyone!

– Kris

Photo: Two Chicago Wolves attack the front of the Rockford net while a shot comes in from the point.

Here’s the second image I’ve processed from my photo shoot at the Wolves game on Sunday. I always liked the action in front of the net, even from my days as a defenseman way back when. There were a few neat things with this action shot that I really get a kick out of.

• Where’s the puck?  See if you can find it.
• The forward in front, #27 Johnny Pohl, is leaping in the air out of the way, and in the process, it almost looks like he’s trying to balance on the blade of his hockey stick.
• Again, not to pick on Johnny, but if you view the larger view on Flickr (click on the photo to go there) and look at his face, he appears to have his eyes closed.

As I mentioned yesterday, there was a fair amount of noise in these shots, so I tried to clean it up a little bit here. I also took the image through a little spin in Topaz Adjust like I did with this one, but not as dramatically.

Just Warming Up

There still are a few shots coming this week from Sunday’s game, so hang in there if you’d like to see more. I’m also still riding this excitement from the results of this shoot to the point where I’m trying to make plans for reprocessing photos from my original Flickr account and adding them here to the Hockey Portfolio.

If there was only more time in the day.