Friday nights in the fall mean shooting high school football games. I sell the photos online at 
www.rgvsportspix.com as well as to a local newspaper. This week was more fun than usual as I had Trang with me. After getting her permission to be on the field as my "assistant", we went up to the press box to get team rosters. It was the perfect opportunity to get a photo of her in an unusual setting.
his knee for the last four plays of the game. But there were a few fun moments - this player was on the winning team, but loosing the fumble obviously didn't make much difference.
Many people are surprised at how many photos I take at a game - its usually somewhere around 700-800. Out of all those, I will have about 100 that are decent enough to sell.
Why? Lots of shots are sequenced - the same scene taken with split seconds of each other. My camera takes 10 photos in one second - the better to catch the action at its peak - and I may have five photos of the running back scoring a touchdown, but only one will be of his actually crossing the goal line. Many are out of focus (operator error) or just a lousy shot. It takes a lot of time to dump all those photos into my computer, sort out the keepers, then process them to look nice for printing. Because high school stadiums are quite dark, I have to lighten up the images, crop them tighter and otherwise improve them. Of course, then I have to upload them to my web site and send them off to the newspaper's server. All this means I am up until 2 in the morning, though I often crash and finish the job Saturday morning. Exciting stuff, huh?
This may be filed under the category of "TMI." A friend told me not long ago that he thought he was taking far too many pills. When he told me he took three a day, I called him a beginner! A rookie! In
the top row are the ones I take regularly - on the left are the "morning pills" and the top right are the "night pills." But, I've had a nasty nasal infection recently, and the pills on the bottom are the ones the doc has me taking to clear that up. I wonder if all those pills fight in my stomach. See what happens when you get old? I always advise my much younger friends to not get old, but of course, they never listen to me.
Weekends mean worship for me - Sunday mornings will find me enjoying the music and message at
Baptist Temple - sometimes described as the most unBaptist church in south Texas. It is anything but staid - the music rocks and the multimedia is wonderful. But what I really like is that its an active place. They don't want people to just study the Bible - they want people who believe to live the Bible. I've been going there about a year now - and love it when Trang joins me.
But this is not a typical weekend. The Mystery Guest Blogger is still in Ohio, preparing to move her mother here to South Texas. I miss my lady - I guess we've gotten rather attached to each other after 38+ years, eh?
See you soon, Gril.
(Go ahead - click on the photos. You'll see a larger version.)
The game itself? Boring! It ended with a score of 63-7 - - the winning team's quarterback went down onMany people are surprised at how many photos I take at a game - its usually somewhere around 700-800. Out of all those, I will have about 100 that are decent enough to sell.
This may be filed under the category of "TMI." A friend told me not long ago that he thought he was taking far too many pills. When he told me he took three a day, I called him a beginner! A rookie! In
Weekends mean worship for me - Sunday mornings will find me enjoying the music and message at
But this is not a typical weekend. The Mystery Guest Blogger is still in Ohio, preparing to move her mother here to South Texas. I miss my lady - I guess we've gotten rather attached to each other after 38+ years, eh?
See you soon, Gril.
As always, a great Post. Glad the game I went to was more interesting, however! And I can vouch for the long editing process as well as Baptist Temple! However....the pills! I guess this means you do NOT have polyps and can be treated easily. PTL!
Posted by: martha stanley | October 27, 2009 at 08:27 AM
Weekend at Dougie's wasn't at all like the movie!! Oh, that was "Weekend at Bernies!" Much more exciting!
You must be really bored, sharing your pills on the internet for a topic! I guess I should lengthen my "Honey Do" list for you to do before I get back, huh?! LOL! xoxo - g
Posted by: MGB | October 28, 2009 at 08:12 AM
Hey, be glad that you don't have to take the "Morning After" pills instead...HAH!HAH!HAH!!!! (sorry, can't help it ! :). Anyway, 700 to 800 iamges per event? man! sound like a "trigger happy" dude, which I bet you tried to "age" your camera to match your age...oops! I mean "experience", eh? lol When MGB returned, give her 38 bear-hugs, and 1 for me. BTW, on 11/29th, I & Kathy will be in Nam, and perhaps couple weeks later in Hue. We won't return to USA until late Jan. 2010. If you have any "message bottles", please drop me a note.
Love you two,
Sam
Posted by: Sam | October 28, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Well I hope you don't start chasing rabbits. Talk to Alice. Anywho, great job as always.
Posted by: Russ Young | November 01, 2009 at 02:42 PM