Given the popularity of the sport, I suppose I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been surprised by the media centre (where I collected my accreditation), which was the size of an aircraft hanger. Along with the photographers and camera crews, there were literally hundreds of journalists sat behind computer screens tapping out up to the minute stories.<\/span><\/p>\n It was amusing walking around the course with my 5×4 camera and being greeted with perplexed glances by the golfing photography community. I was certainly the only one still using film.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always had a great deal of respect for sports photographers. I even spent a few days doing work experience alongside the talented Sports Illustrated photographer Bob Martin<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0after winning a competition to spend two weeks photographing at Wimbledon.<\/span><\/p>\n Two of my favourite sport photographs are by another Sports Illustrated photographer, Neil Leifer<\/a>. Both photographs are of Muhammad Ali from the 1960s and the first was taken during Ali’s bout against <\/span>Cleveland Williams at the <\/strong><\/span>Houston Astrodome on November 14, 1966.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 Neil Leifer<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The second was taken on\u00c2\u00a0May 25, 1965, when Ali stopped Sonny Liston with one punch in the first round of their heavyweight championship fight in Lewiston, Maine.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 Neil Leifer<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n They are both extraordinary images. One of the things that strikes me most looking at them over forty years later is the absence of any advertising branding, which gives the photographs such purity.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nl05.jpg\" "\\"nl05\\"")
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