Direct hit
Sometimes you live dangerously as a football photographer...the ball can be seen blurred on the photo before it hit my face. As a result there was a black eye and i had to have a wound over the eye stitched in hospital emergency. My glasses and lens hood didn't survive. My eyes, my brain and my camera and lens remained unharmed. That's why you should always use a lens hood...
Direct hit
Sometimes you live dangerously as a football photographer...the ball can be seen blurred on the photo before it hit my face. As a result there was a black eye and i had to have a wound over the eye stitched in hospital emergency. My glasses and lens hood didn't survive. My eyes, my brain and my camera and lens remained unharmed. That's why you should always use a lens hood...