March 7th, 2009 by admin

© 2009 Loren Worthington

The Mesa Association for Disabled Sports hosted the 3-day Desert Dual Quad Rugby event on Feb 27th at the Broadway Recreation Center in Mesa.

The Wildcats of Tucson went 5-0 and handed the Phoenix Outcasts their only defeat on Friday in a narrow 48-46 victory. The Phoenix Outcasts staged a great comeback with a final minute goal and strong goal line defense to beat the Texans on Sunday to finish the tournement 4-1.

Teams

Jump to the 2nd page to review two batches of photos. One from Friday, and one from Sunday. If any of the teams are interested in getting copies, please contact me. If anyone has photos from Saturday, please contact me.

Day One: Friday

Day Three: Sunday

Photographer’s Notes:
The court has florescent lighting dangling from the arched lid. At both ends, the walls have a substantial amount of natural light coming from opaque walls of class. But it’s just not enough. The smart photographer would have shown up with a few flashes and a bag of batteries, because the lighting just isnt bright enough to freeze the action and still get white to look white, even at f2.8 and 1100+ iso. A good excuse to buy some SB’s (soon).

What makes the Broadway Recreation Center difficult to photograph as well, is that 2 walls are white and 2 are dark wood. Plus each wall has double-doors opening to the outside light (ie glare) which really mess up the exposures. All photos were taken with Nikon D300 and either a 70-200mm f2.8, or a 14-24mm 4.5 wide angle.

All photos are copywrite protected. Players and teams may use for personal use for free provided it displays “© 2009 Loren Worthington” For commercial and editorial use, please contact me.