Guides, tips and stories for athletes and the photographers who shoot them
Photography Tips
PSAL fall sports, West Side Soccer League's four-park fall season, Randall's Island youth soccer and cross country season at Van Cortlandt Park: where NYC's youth leagues actually play, and why parents make an easier buyer than almost anyone else.
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North Brooklyn Runners, November Project NYC and Bridge Runners all meet on a fixed weekly schedule with the same crowd showing up together. Here is how to turn that into a standing shoot instead of chasing one race a year.
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Locals, New York Surf School and Surf's Up NY run beginner lessons almost every day in the Rockaways. Here is how to turn that fixed schedule into a standing shoot, how to pitch the partnership, and how Surf Snaps already has an arrangement in place at Surf's Up NY.
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A borough-by-borough map of where New York's games actually happen: the 60-plus soccer fields on Randall's Island, Rucker Park and the Cage for basketball, Wollman and LeFrak Center for ice, and Icahn Stadium's world-record track.
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From the Brooklyn Half and the NYC Marathon to the 5th Avenue Mile and NYRR's weekend races in Central Park, here is which NYC races actually deliver enough runners, choke points and emotional finish lines to make selling the photos worth it.
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What NYC photographers actually earn shooting real estate, headshots, events, weddings and pets, with real rate ranges, and why sports and athlete photography, the one hustle that needs no bookings, might be the easiest to start this weekend.
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Where to shoot tennis in New York for photos players will actually buy: the clay at Central Park Tennis Center, the U.S. Open grounds at Flushing Meadows, the Hudson-side courts in Morningside Heights, and the permit rules that keep you shooting there.
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A photographer's guide to the TCS New York City Marathon on November 1, 2026: the six positions worth your morning, the start wave schedule, race day light, the credential and commercial use rules, and how independent photographers actually make money on the day.
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Where to stand in New York if you want to make money shooting runners: the choke points in Central Park and Prospect Park, the public tracks where clubs train, cross country season at Van Cortlandt, race days, and what the permit rules actually say.
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Instagram makes you hunt down every buyer. Search does the opposite. Here is why surf photos sell better on a page that Google and AI assistants can read, and how surfers find themselves using nothing but a break name and a date.
Stories
From a new desert wave pool to Fiji windsurfing glory and Bangladesh's rising surfers, here's what's making waves this week.
Photography Tips
Your sports photos are not selling, and the photography is rarely the reason. Here are the seven real causes, from slow turnaround and bloated galleries to checkout friction and pricing, ranked by how often they are the culprit.