Et Al Pics: "Fan Boy"

First in an occasional series from the camera of celebrated international cricket photographer Philip Brown.

Fan Boy: Nikon D6 Body; 24-70mm Nikkor lens @55mm; 1/1250th second; f4.5; ISO 640.

Last month I covered England’s Test tour to Pakistan. It was my third visit to this amazing country and from my experiences the Pakistan people are the friendliest and most generous people that I’ve ever met. Fact. I’ve chosen as the main photo one that I took in Multan on October 18th.  Pakistan had just won their first Test match in absolutely ages, I think it was just over 1000 days since their last Test victory. The fans who were in the stadium were behind fences and some were very keen to touch, yell at, or shake hands with the players who had just levelled the Test series.  I was focussing my attention and my camera lens on the fans through the fence and when one lad shouted enthusiastically at Shan Masood I knew that I had a fairly nice picture.