A little more little league

On Saturday I shot some more little league. The team from Bay City celebrated #8, Brandon Harding hitting a home run.

 The kid in the center is why I love little league.

National Junior Disability Championship

I got to shoot the National Junior Disability Championship swim meet today. I've never shot swimming before so it was a little difficult to get use to timing when the swimmer would come up for air. In the end none of my action shots were great but I liked this photo of the kids lining up.

Girls H.Y.P.E summer program

late summer nights

Just some shots I took after my photos finished transmitting. This time of day makes me nostalgic for warm evenings spent catching fireflies.

The hardest thing

Something that I've discovered is the most difficult thing to shoot is concerts. Not pop/rap/hip hop concerts, actually I have no idea what it's like to shoot those, but concerts where people sit in lawn chairs and listen to a band. I'm sure it's a very nice thing to do on a warm summer evening but to photograph, it's a challenge.

A professor use to say to my photography class "there's no there there" which I've recently discovered he didn't coin but rather Gertrude Stein did. Sometimes it feels as though these events are staginant and there's nothing there. The other photo intern and I were talking and determined that a great photographer has the ability to at least make a good photo in these situations. That is what I aspire to do. Make great photos in mundane situations.

For something new, more little league

I only had one shoot today and it was little league. I'm not a big baseball fan nor was I really a big sports fan, at least when it came to shooting. Recently however I've become a little fonder of sports and shooting them. I need to flush out my sports action shooting and what better way than to shoot lots of sports. Here are a few photos I like from the game.

Senior Little League

16 years olds shouldn't be in a league called "little". Some of those boys were taller than me. Got a few action shots that I liked and this always seems to happen when I use the newspapers laptops, I always over lighten. Unfortunately they don't look that way when I'm toning them. I think a calibration is in need. Here's the sequence that I shot for a runner sliding into home. Hurray for fast shutters!