Tonight I went to watch my son’s game, they are in districts and have won the first three games. Tonight we played in a town about a half hours drive. It’s a bit of a fun journey on route 79 and the towns are very Mayberry RFD like, with no internet service…How do they live?

We were in a town called Elsberry and the lights were on, the team was doing great, when I noticed off in center field, a very distinct, brown cloud. I thought for sure it was a dust cloud.

The ump motioned to me and said “make sure you get that” I thought.. Uhhh sure, and ignored his request…but after a few moments the dust cloud did not go away but got bigger and bigger and it moved, in amazing shapes and patterns.

I started to click and then asked…WHAT is that? the Ump responded “mosquitos” Are you kidding me? and he said, if we don’t finish this game soon, they will move from light to light and be upon us before we know it.

He was not kidding, I ran out to get some closer shots and thanked God I had my 70-200 on, but was wishing for the 400! Tomorrow I’ll post up some shots of the game, these shots are unedited, I wanted to get them up because I teased everyone that I had some amazing shots…

Now you all see why I had to take a shower first…

Oh and the last picture, my son said and I agree “That’s niche marketing at it’s best”

Every since my son was in T-ball, I always took my camera to the games. It started off by me shooting just him, then the team, to last year were I spent my entire summer on the fields photographing all 17 teams. I enjoyed doing it and I used it as a time to really practice some skill shots.

Luke lives for baseball, it’s his dream to become a professional baseball player, and he’s not far off his mark!

This year, since we moved, I was able to concentrate just on Luke and Saturday was an amazing time to start. In a 2 inning pitch Luke pitched: 4 strike outs, 1 ground out, 1 infield pop up, 1 walk and zero runs scored.

While standing on the opposition side of the field I had a chance to hear the coaches talk about the pitches Luke threw. One coaches comment was “WOW, that was an amazing pitch”, another said “That was a perfect pitch, you’re not going to hit that” The head coach said to me: “That’s your son? I responded “yes” (okay and that reads more like YES!!!!!) and he commented “he’s got game”. Of course he has game, he lives to play ball, it’s his passion and passion is important in anything you want to do well!

After the game the coaches approached Luke and congratulating him on a good game!

SO I thought I would take a moment and post some images from the game.