Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to the improved photography podcast. I am your host Jim Harmer and today I am joined by the big guy Brian McGuckin

NFL photographer by weekend and by weekday school teacher.

Hey Brian, how are you?

Hey, I'm doing well, how are you?

I am doing great.

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Well, Brian, you have shot a bunch of NFL games and sports.

This is kind of your specialty and so today for our

Facebook live stream we want to open it up to listener questions. Anything you

want to ask about sports photography, this is your chance to do it. So if those

of you who are watching the Facebook live stream we're going to take your

questions now if you want to just type them in as a comment and then we'll be seeing them

comment as they're doing it. So Brian the question that everybody asked to get to

when they hear you're shooting NFL games, something cool like that.

I think what everybody wants to know is how do you get into a game?

How did you get in a position to start doing that?

That's the hard part. It is difficult to get in just simply because there are so many rules and regulations and they tend to kind of limit the number of photographers that are allowed on the sidelines.

The way that I got in, and I know every time I'm on, I probably talk about it, is just

through relationships.

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