Random Excellence: Victor Keller

Photo by Victor Keller

One thing that's dependable on a blog is that one thing leads to another. After I wrote about pool on the 25th of last month, sometime reader Victor Keller sent me a link to a series of pictures he made in pool halls. I guess you have to be a fan to know how cool it is to have, in your portfolio, candid pictures of Efren Reyes practicing...I'd kill for that!

Well, not kill. But you know what I mean. (That's not him in the picture above, by the way.)

Thanks to Victor.

Mike

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Thomas Walsh: "Incredible portfolio, thanks Mike for this post. Keller's work is just plain good."

Comments

[PWSmith]

The link goes to a site that has images about the size of a 35mm negative. Surely I am not expected to use a lupe to see these on-line photos, which I would really like to see?

[I don't have that problem and no one else has reported it yet. I suspect it might be a problem with your browser settings. Have you tried accessing it on a different browser? --Mike]

[Gavin Paterson]

Images come up well-sized on an iPad Pro, what are you using?

[louis mccullagh]

Image size varies as you increase the width of your browser.

[Nigel James Robinson]

I find cue sports to be exremely photogenic.

[Richard Parkin]

Curiously, I see only thumbnails, like FW Smith. iPad Pro iOS 13 Safari & all browsers. Can get bigger by downloading or opening in new tab, which would be inconvenient. I’ll try on the Mac.

[Eric Rose]

Thanks for sharing this artist. I just went through his website and loved his documentary work.

[SteveAitch]

As a slight, but still cue-sport related, aside, the Snooker World Championship is on at the moment and is being televised. A bit odd to begin with - just the two players and the ref round the table (plus a technician or two, I assume), social distancing practised, no being handed rests etc by the ref. Plus, the big point that makes it more watchable for me, no audience! So, no shouting and cheering, just the game.

Some players apparently like it that way (Ronnie O'Sullivan being one) while others find it a bit off-putting - no quiet round of applause for a particularly good shot or making a ton, for instance.

But I like it!