Paul Yates is a North Vancouver based photographer with a passion for sports and nature photography. "Sporting events are a thrill to photograph, fast, athletic, intense.  Our job is to catch that action, and save it in memories that will last forever. I don't know about you, but my kids have grown up very fast. I have great action photographs when they were playing sports that seem to become more valuable with time. Maybe they can show their kids some day that they had game! The proof is in the pictures".

  "We started Vancouver Sports Pictures in 2004 with a single Canon camera at a basketball game. With the support of countless friends and over 900,000 images later, VSP has an impressive supporting staff of professional photographers and on-site production managers using the latest digital cameras, computers and high-speed printers to produce affordable, high-quality images on site at every concievable type of sporting event. We are proud of our Company, proud of our dedicated staff and grateful to the growing list of satisfied customers and successful events."

Our expertise is on-site sports photography and instant photo printing at tournaments and championships. We also create custom poster designs, photograph team photo days and freelance other sports events such as year-end award banquets. We'll be adding a new service soon where you can send us your pictures of your athletes and we will create a custom, one-of-a kind themed 13x19 poster. We'll explain the kind of photos that will work, how to send them to use and how you will help us proof the final work, so if you have a collection of sports photos of your kids (or you!) to create a lifetime piece of sports art, we'll use the same skills on your photos as on the ones we take at tournaments. Check our poster gallery with samples that showcase our custom designs.

To book your sports tournament call 778-838-9009 or e-mail us through this website.

Assignment day rates for magazine covers, publications, PR and on-demand work are available on request.