My winning entry to D-Photo magazine's D-Kids competition.

D-Photo magazine in New Zealand run some great competitions, & one of them is the D-Kids photo competition. For every issue they run this competition where the winner wins a yearly subscription to D-Photo magazine as well as having their winning image printed in that issue.

I had shot a few kids photos recently so I thought I would enter my first photography competition by entering in the D-Kids comp with one of my photos. The photo I chose was one I shot during a casual game of backyard footy with a few relatives. In this particular photo, I caught Hudson mid air whilst diving for the try line after catching a grubber kick from his dad.

At such a young age, he’s certainly a talented footballer already & he gave me some great opportunities to shoot some really good shots. And fortunately for me, the shot I entered was the winner of D-Photo’s issue 36 D-Kids photo competition.

For those of you who don’t get a chance to see the photo printed in the magazine, you can see it on their site here, or just click on the image above to see a larger version of it.

Hudson dives for the football after it was kicked to him by his dad.

The old saying goes “Never work with kids or animals” but on this occasion a impromptu game of backyard footy was all that was needed to inspire me to bring out the camera & photograph some shots of the kids just being kids & having fun.

The young guy in this shot is certainly showing promise of being a talented footballer & I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to shoot it.  Shot with a 50mm prime lens, I captured him mid air with his eyes on the ball as he dived in to plant it on the ground after it was kicked to him by his dad. Luckily I managed to get out of the way fast enough as he came hurtling towards me!

Click on the image above to view this as a higher res image, or you can check out the start of my collection of kids photos here.