Celebrations are a minefield for photographers, because enthusiasm and camera angle almost never cooperate.
Here two teammates celebrate a point and the lens snaps the one angle that makes the moment look far more dramatic than it actually was. Frame-by-frame it is a standard high-five. Pulled out of the sequence, the context vanishes and the timing takes over. The athletes are celebrating. The photo is just showing off. Neither party is at fault.
Photographers at beach events shoot in long bursts, often ten or more frames a second, precisely because the perfect celebration shot and the cursed one are usually a fraction of a second apart. This gallery is built entirely from the cursed fraction.
