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Photo Gallery: Behind the Lens- The Top Photos of 2016
The collection of top photos from the 2016 Behind the Lens series.

Sanders' Comments: "We were in rainy weather, as we were many times in 2016, and you know, a Sunday Night Football game, the stadium was doing some fireworks, which kind of mixed with the rain, and you have the rain falling and the fireworks shooting up in the air. The expression, I think, on Travis Kelce's face, is like a kid. He just looks like he's ready to have some fun. I know the game didn't turn out like anybody wanted it to, but at this point, everything was still undetermined, it being pregame.

Sanders' comments:Â "There are so many photographers at a game, and you'll see big plays happen, and a lot of people get a picture from the game that is similar. I believe when this took place, Jim (Berry) was the only photographer in that end zone. "For Tyreek (Hill) and De'Anthony (Thomas) to be running right at him, he's going to be one of the only people that have this angle, which I think is the best angle that anyone could of had of this shot.

Sanders' comments: "This isMarcus Peters ripping the ball from Kelvin Benjamin, kind of an 'I'll-take-that' moment, and Benjamin is so much bigger than Marcus Peters and Marcus' determination just to get that ball out and make a play, he just took it right from him. I had never seen anything quite like that.

Sanders' comments: "This is one of those photos that you're going to look at, and it makes you wonder what was going on. To put it in context,Marcus Peters had just kicked a ball into the stands and I think Eric (Berry) was coming over as the elder statesman to give a little advice as to how something like that could have really turned the game, and maybe control your emotion a little bit and he just wanted to give him a little advice—a little teammate love there.

Sanders' comments: "To me, in this picture, if you take out the ArrowVision board, it looks like it could be old-time football. There's not real focus on any one player in particular. You've got the steam and the fog coming off the field from the heat coming off our coils that we put in meeting the cold air, and it just looks so cold. I just thought it was interesting how that looked. Again, it's in black and white, which makes it probably feel even colder, and it was cold. It was the coldest game I've ever shot a picture in."

Sanders' comments: "This was an in-game portrait, so it was in the bench area, and I think Ron (Parker) might have known that I was around taking pictures. When I got in his straight line of view, he made great eye contact with the camera, and what I like about this is just the way that his eyes kind of look through me. I don't know what was going on behind me, but his eye contact was amazing.

Sanders' comments: "Post-game on wins, I typically go into the locker room and take pictures of the guys celebrating. Coach Reid always addresses the team post-game, so it really allows our viewers a chance to see a place where there are no TV cameras typically. Just team staff is in there and get to celebrate with the guys. Because these wins are all so precious, you get to see how excited they really are.
![Sanders' comments: "This was roughly around a 50-yard pick-six, and it was a ball that was tipped from Eric Berry and [Dan Sorensen] ran across through the play and was able to navigate his way through the entire Saints offense to come back through, and I happened to be in the end zone watching the play and pulled out a wider lens, so you could get the whole Sea of Red behind him with the stadium and him coming through.](https://static.clubs.nfl.com/image/private/t_new_photo_album/t_lazy/f_auto/chiefs/hy2ijqxtnuv971chrrch.jpg)
Sanders' comments: "This was roughly around a 50-yard pick-six, and it was a ball that was tipped from Eric Berry and [Dan Sorensen] ran across through the play and was able to navigate his way through the entire Saints offense to come back through, and I happened to be in the end zone watching the play and pulled out a wider lens, so you could get the whole Sea of Red behind him with the stadium and him coming through.

Sanders' comments: "Eric Berry came over and sat his helmet on the Gatorade stand. It's got the texture, the rain and the grass, so you can just tell by the way his helmet looks that he's been on the ground. And he just kind of walked away and stood in front of it, and it just kind of set itself to have some real depth and I kind of thought about what's going on, what's going through his mind. He's watching the scoreboard and talking to his teammates, so this was neat with the texture, the bumpiness of the Gatorade table and the raindrops.

Sanders' comments: "What stands out about this photo is the emotion in Alex's face. You could tell that he's coming off the field after a win, a night game, which just magnifies everything a little bit more, so I put Jacob over there in that spot to capture this type of photograph—the players running off the field towards the tunnel. It's something that we miss sometimes, because we're concerned with what's going on on the field with the players swapping jerseys and that kind of thing, and it's just something you sometimes miss, so we kind of staged him over there to look for a photo like this in particular.