# @jacobopperman1 on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C67PbNeRIUr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17468240-jacobopperman1-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9ec195c660.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-05-13T22:36:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jacob Opperman (@opptercopter) — https://gondola.cc/opptercopter

## Caption

The World’s Game.

The last, I guess two years now, I have really become a fan and fallen in love with “Soccer” (football [futbol]). Learning more about the sport and realizing how much access there is to soccer even right here in southeast Tennessee was a wonderful awakening and being able to be a fan, and occasionally even work around the sport has been a wonderful experience. 

For my birthday I asked for my very own soccer ball and on occasion go kick it around by myself or with hazelnut_jones sometimes (when I’m not hurt from kicking it too hard without stretching) and engaging myself more with the sport has been an amazing time and I hope to continue learning and watching and being around it more and more. 

Hazel, at the beginning of the year, challenged me with a photo book full of different prompts to try and do more photography this year. Though I have tried to take images here and there, nothing has ever felt right. But the other day, I took this photo, and this photo made me excited about photography in a way I haven’t felt in a while. 

One of the prompts in the book she gave me was “something that makes you feel hope.” This photo of a soccer ball, more so soccer in general has given me access to avenues in my career, like opportunities shooting video for a professional sports team, that I never thought would be possible. This soccer ball makes me feel hopeful that I can continue to do photography, something I have loved and have been doing for nearly 10 years now. And this soccer ball, gives me hope that I can continue to use my camera to tell wonderful stories, no matter the subject, even just a soccer ball.

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## Tags

blackandwhitephotography, hazelsphotochallenge, creativecontent, documentaryphotography, stilllife, storytelling, photography, portrait, storytellingphotography, lifestyle, creators, photographyartist, somethingthatgivesyouhope, sportsphotography, storytellingart, life, visualstorytelling, filmmaker, camera, artphotography

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