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Jose Reyes of the New York Mets jogs to the dugout before the game against the Atlanta Braves at Citi Field on Sept. 21, 2016 in New York City.Al Bello—Getty Images by [Josh Raab](https://time.com/author/josh-raab/) ## Josh Raab Oct 24, 2016 11:00 AM UTC Few photographers work harder than Al Bello, a sports photographer with 26 years of experience under his belt, and by his account the last four months have been his busiest yet. The Getty Images chief sports photographer kicked off the summer covering the Belmont stakes. He then headed to the Rio Olympics for a month, often working up to 18-hour days to cover virtually every aquatic event. From there, he dived head first into the U.S. Open, finishing up just in time for the end of baseball season and the start of hockey and basketball. Bello started out as a darkroom assistant for a local town paper in Long Island, shooting boxing on weekends. He worked his way up to a sports photographer job for _All Sport_ in Los Angeles until Getty Images acquired the picture agency in 1998\. Now, Bello not only shoot, he also helps manage other photographers on the field and acts as a liaison between them and his bosses. Bello spoke to TIME LightBox about his schedule, his process, and the pictures that took him a quarter of a century to capture.  **Josh Raab: You have had a wildly productive past few months. How are you feeling?** Al Bello: It’s been one of the most intense four months of my life as far as work goes. Honestly Josh, in New York, I could work seven days a week if I wanted to. There’s just always something going on. You’ve got two baseball teams, two basketball teams, two football teams, three hockey teams if you include New Jersey. You’ve got boxing coming to the Garden, you’ve got Mixed Martial Arts now licensed here in New York. I’m always doing something, whether it’s here or somewhere else. I don’t have to worry about not having work. I’m busy all the time. What’s been very evident to me is the amount of hours spent at each event which wore me out a little bit at the end of the summer. It was very stressful on my family. It took a lot out of everybody honestly.  Brandon Marshall of the New York Jets runs onto the field before playing against the Baltimore Ravens at MetLife Stadium on Oct. 23, 2016 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Al Bello—Getty Images **I noticed for the Olympics you covered entirely aquatic sports. Why is that?** Because it’s kind of what I’ve migrated to. It’s a pretty specialized thing to do and requires a whole different mindset then let’s say someone who’s roaming around the Olympics, going from event to event. It’s this very intense dedicated preparation-based job to do, and I’ve done it the last three Olympics. There’s been a team of three of us who just work together and we’re pretty comfortable with each other. At an event like an Olympics, we’ve got a team of 140 people, all with separate jobs and everybody’s got to do their part. A steady team of editors and a steady team of IT people to help us get the images from the cameras to the editors both at the main press center and back at the office. **What does a typical shoot day at the Olympics look like?** Starting early in the morning, way until the wee hours. So, with swimming we’re out the door at 8:30 in the morning because the swimming starts at 10\. That goes till 12:30, 1 o’clock \[in the morning\]. **At sporting events what is the process of getting the images from your camera to viewers?** Our job is to take the pictures and then we have ethernet lines that go directly from the cameras to a box that carries the signal to our editors \[who\] get them out. So, our goal for let’s say the Men’s 100-meter final was to get the picture out in 120 seconds or less, but we got our first pictures out within a minute.  Al Bello—Getty Images For the U.S. Open \[it is\] the same idea, but on a much smaller scale. So instead of having a team of 140 people, we had a team of around sixteen people. Six photographers, three editors, maybe a runner. And then we’d look at the schedule that day. I’ll tell everybody, “You’re going to this court, that court, these are the people playing. These are our assignments, we have to respond to that need, get racket shots of this player or that player.” When I’m by myself, my computer is in front of me, I take the card, load \[it onto\] the computer, and transmit within two to five minutes. Easy. Football is different. I have to leave the field, run in the back \[to the press tent\], get it done there and run back out again because things are happening. There’s a lot of running up and down the field. If it’s a bigger game, a runner would come out, get the card from us, deliver it back to the editor. **What camera gear do you usually bring to each event?** I’ll always have a long lens, medium zoom, and a wide lens with me at all times. These days I’m carrying a 200 to 400 mm lens as my long lens. Sometimes it’s straight up 400\. And then I have a 70-200mm medium lens zoom, and I have a 16-35mm or a 24-70mm wide range depending on the event. Sometimes I’ll have a 14mm \[ultra wide angle lens\] with me. Lately, I have been bringing studio lighting. I’ve been bringing it to the field with me to try and do some different stuff to keep me happy.  Al watches boxer Arturo Gatti during a match against Alfanso Gomez in Atlantic City, NJ. Ed Mulholland-US Presswire **How do you decide where each photographer is going to stand at a sporting event?** There’s no room for just going rogue. For a big event or for a multi-day event, let’s say baseball playoffs, we absolutely will rotate positions every game. Each photographer gets a chance to shoot in what they call the prime position, or a position that might produce the most photos. But then what happens is they put all of the pool agencies together. Getty, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, and a couple of other agencies. I’m not going to lie to you. I don’t think anyone’s going to get much better than what we get. Once you’re there, it’s hard to move. Especially for a big event. Let’s say I’m at the finish line at track and field. For the 100-meter Final, we have maybe nine or ten photographers in different positions, plus robot cameras, all that stuff, so, we’re covered. **Do you have advice for photographers shooting the World Series?** It takes incredible concentration. Baseball is a game when nothing will happen for seven innings, and then boom! Home run. If you’re not ready, you miss it. The moment’s gone. But the problem with shooting baseball is you just kind of sit there and wait for stuff to happen and you’re thinking constantly about situations. And while it looks like they’re just standing around out there, you have to think steps ahead photographically where something might happen and you need to have your correct lenses ready and hope that a third base coach doesn’t get in your way or an umpire. There’s always somebody getting in your way, like television after a big home run, they just run on the field now.  Al during the Men's Hockey Bronze Medal Match between Pakistan and Japan during Asian Games in 2006. Michael Steele—Getty Images for DAGOC **What is the longest you have waited to capture a single moment?** The Catch was years in the making. I hate shooting at MetLife Stadium because they have these scoreboards on either side that kill the background. So, I’m always in the end zone shooting out onto the field because there’s all sorts of security guards with yellow jackets everywhere, and it’s such a pain in the ass to shoot one way or the other, and I like to shoot out from the end zone into the field. So, it was one of those things where I set up in the end zone and Eli \[Manning\] launched a perfect spiral to Odell Beckham and it landed right in my lap, and it was great because I put myself there on purpose and I thought maybe if there’s a catch there one day, it’d look pretty nice. And it wasn’t just a catch, it was one of the greatest catches of all time. I’ve been shooting football since the late ’80s, and I’ve never gotten a catch like that. If you want to talk about years, that took me 26 years, to wait for a picture like that to happen? …yeah, you’ve got to be patient sometimes.  Odell Beckham of the New York Giants scores a touchdown in the second quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at \[f500link\]MetLife\[/f500link\] Stadium on Nov. 23, 2014 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Al Bello—Getty Images **Do you have a favorite sports team?** The only one that I really like love, absolutely, the New York Giants football team. They’re the ones I’m most passionate about. **Are there sports you enjoy shooting the most?** I love to shoot anything that’ll give me a chance to get great photographs. I love being in a situation that I can create, in an arena that’s so unpredictable. I love making something out of nothing. I love creating a picture that’s beautiful with a beautiful background and spectacular light and a great moment of action or a simple reaction, but where I put myself in that position to get that kind of photo. I feel like I could be surrounded by hundreds of photographers and still try out \[new\] things. That’s what I get the most out of being a sports photographer. That’s what drives me, that’s what makes me go. That’s what I live for. _This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity_  Al setting up an underwater camera. **_Al Bello_** _is a Getty Images Chief Sports Photographer. Follow him on_ [_Instagram_](https://www.instagram.com/albello55/) [**_Josh Raab_**](http://www.joshraabphoto.com/time-tearsheets) _is an Associate Photo Editor at TIME. Follow him on_ [_Instagram_](http://instagram.com/instagraabit) _and_ [_Twitter_](https://twitter.com/joshraabphoto)_._  Jose Reyes of the New York Mets jogs to the dugout before the game against the Atlanta Braves at Citi Field on Sept. 21, 2016 in New York City. Al Bello—Getty Images  Curtis Granderson of the New York Mets catches a ball hit by Brandon Crawford of the San Francisco Giants for an out in the fifth inning during their National League Wild Card game at Citi Field on Oct. 5 in New York City. Al Bello—Getty Images  Greivis Vasquez of the Brooklyn Nets dribbles the ball against the Boston Celtics during their Pre Season game at the Barclays Center on Oct. 13. Al Bello—Getty Images  Tobias Harris of the Detroit Pistons and Trevor Booker of the Brooklyn Nets collide going for the ball during their Pre Season game at the Barclays Center on Oct. 6, Al Bello—Getty Images  Antonia Lottner of Germany serves to Vania King of the United States during her first round Women's Singles match on Day Two of the 2016 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Aug. 30 in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Al Bello—Getty Images  Angelique Kerber of Germany returns a shot to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark during their Women's Singles Semifinal Match at the US Open. Al Bello—Getty Images  Jamie Murray (bottom L) of Great Britain and Bruno Soares (bottom R) of Brazil return a shot to Pablo Carreno Busta (top L) and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Top R) of Spain during their Men's Doubles Final Match Al Bello—Getty Images  Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a shot to Gael Monfils of France during their Men’s Singles Semifinal Match at the US Open. Al Bello—Getty Images  Josh Norman of the Washington Redskins looks on before the game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 25, 2016 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Al Bello—Getty Images  Michael Thomas of the New Orleans Saints reaches for the ball against Janoris Jenkins of the New York Giants during the second half at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 18, 2016 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Al Bello—Getty Images  Eli Manning of the New York Giants runs off the field after warmups before the game against the Baltimore Ravens at MetLife Stadium on Oct. 16, 2016 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Al Bello—Getty Images  Jamison Crowder of the Washington Redskins escapes a tackle by Eli Apple of the New York Giants on a punt return during their game at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 25. Al Bello—Getty Images  Roger Lewis of the New York Giants celebrates a touchdown against Tavon Young of the Baltimore Ravens in the second quarter during their game at MetLife Stadium on Oct. 16, 2016 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Al Bello—Getty Images  Swimmers warm-up prior to the Olympic Trials at CenturyLink Center on June 27, 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska. Al Bello—Getty Images  A general view of Spain playing Brazil during their Men's Water Polo Classification 7th-8th Place match during the Rio Olympics at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on Aug. 20, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Al Bello—Getty Images  Michael Phelps of the United States competes in the Men's 100m Butterfly Final on August 12. Al Bello—Getty Images  Phelps celebrates with his fiance and their son after finishing first in the final heat for the Men's 200 Meter Individual Medley during the Olympic Trials on July 1, 2016. Al Bello—Getty Images  Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein of Germany compete in the Men's Diving Synchronised 10m Platform Finall at the Rio Olympics on Aug. 8. Al Bello—Getty Images  Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein of Germany compete in the Men's Diving Synchronized 10m Platform Final at the Rio Olympics on Aug. 8. Al Bello—Getty Images  The Japanese Synchronized swim team enters the pool during a warm up prior to the Synchronised Swimming Teams Technical Routine during the Women's 10m Platform diving. Al Bello—Getty Images  RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 18: Qian Ren of China competes during the Women's 10m Platform , final diving at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on day 13 of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) Al Bello—Getty Images  Kim Mi Rae of Democratic People's Republic of Korea practices during a diving training session at the Rio Olympics on Aug. 15. Al Bello—Getty Images  Divers during the 3 meter Springboard Preliminary Round. Al Bello—Getty Images  Liang Tze Ooi of Malaysia competes during the Diving Men's 10m Platform Preliminary. Al Bello—Getty Images  Belmont Stakes Contender Lani looks on after a training session prior to the 148th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 6, 2016 in Elmont, New York. Al Bello—Getty Images  The field races at the start of The 148th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 11, 2016 in Elmont, New York. Al Bello—Getty Images  Horses train prior to the 148th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 2, 2016 in Elmont, New York. 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