Photo of the Week January 30

This week’s photo of the week “Hail Nabby” was submitted by reader David Towers who sent along this about the photo:

“San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov has not needed to show his excellent play so much this season since the San Jose Sharks have switched to an intensely focused Offensive System under their new coach, which keeps the puck pretty much in the opponents end of the ice. As the season progresses however and the opposition starts fighting for playoff spots, Nabby’s immense value to the team will clearly be seen.

The goalie’s stellar play is well respected both in San Jose as a Shark, where ‘Nabby’ was a Vezina candidate last year and in Russia, where he recently back-stopped the Russian National hockey team to a Gold Medal in the World Championship of Hockey held in Quebec City, Canada.
Nabby was also the only goalie to record a shutout against the Gold Medal Swedish hockey team in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.”

I was most interested to see what he wrote in his Flickr account about the shot:

“First time shooting through the glass via the photographer hole for me. Amazing experience.
I had to rent a 70-200mm lens with a low f-stop.
Difficult to get the right settings though.
The entire game I was re-working the White Balance, playing with different speeds and f-stops.
Took me a good 10 minutes just to get the settings to produce a somewhat color correct image.
I am sure I can learn a lot more. It was my first time though so I am very happy with the result.”