Hans Van Der Meer

These images from the series of photographs by Hans Van Der Meer have really great compositional qualities as the football players are contrasted the the various landscapes around them. This is an interesting take on sports photography which allows the photographs to become more than just documents of the game. All the photographs are zoomed out a lot which is different from more common sporting photographs which are generally zoomed in to capture an action shot of one or two players, where this comparison with the landscape would be lost.