At the end of each season, the NBL awards those who have produced the best pieces of media for the year. The awards range from Best Feature Article, Best Photograph – Action, Best Photograph – Non-Action, Best Television Feature Story, Best Television News Story, Best Radio Presentation Package and Best Radio News Package. The two which are specifically for photography are Best Action and Best Non-Action photograph.

We’re very excited to have been picked for this year’s awards. Frankly, we’re as shocked about the award as we are about the actual photos themselves. Who would ever have thought that dunk could have turned out so amazing? You never plan for these things. You just set up your equipment, get there for the moment, and press the shutter during that fraction of a second when it needs to be pressed.

Anyway, here’s what the NBL had to say about us:

So without further ado I give you winners, both courtesy of Blinq Photography. Congrats Shawn…

I’ve been thinking a lot about moments. I can’t stress how much of photography has to do with the moment. You can get all of the right equipment, the best flashes, a team to manage everything in the background, but if the moment doesn’t happen, well… it just doesn’t happen. So here’s my philosophy. Do take the time to get setup for everything, but focus on the moment. Where do you think the big moment of the night is going to happen? Get ready for that, and you just might get lucky enough to get a shot like this.

So if you aren’t fortunate enough to go to tonight’s NBL game between the South Dragons and…

We were lucky enough to get access to some of the best NBL basketball players for season 2008/09. We were commissioned to shoot 8 guys and the brief was totally up to us – something that rarely happens.

The team that was assembled was a hair and make-up artist, 1 lighting genius and who could have forgotten the fantastic assistants. The next was to start scouting out our locations around the city. This was central to all the players given that some of them were staying in the hotel around the corner.

I woke to a fairly mild Sunday morning in Melbourne. Over the last 2 weeks we had prepared our shoot schedule to coincide with players flights and other requirements. That included working with General Managers, Team Managers and the players themselves – not a small a job.

First two players up were a visiting team who had played the night before – I’m not going to mention any names here. However, they never showed up. We called just about…