"Sports pages" ... continued

The weather was miserable today so I stayed in. No proper walking was done, but some progress was made on the "sports pages" piece, and several more of the excellent History of English podcasts were listened to, as well as a few episodes of In Our Time (history of ideas; available indefinitely and in great variety here).

I sorted the full-body action photos by size and pulled out the largest -

 then cut them out to get the shapes -

Where next? Re-arranging the shapes and tracing round them; perhaps overlapping, perhaps not. Coloured shapes, somehow?

Then, thinking about how to render this in fabric and thread, and what small(?) changes will make the transition from realistic photography to abstract (shadowy?) shapes, probably stitched. Or will there be too much tension and/or disparity?