Day 46: ...right before my eyes
***Lots of sportz pix ahead***
I do enjoy my cricket, by which I generally mean the red ball version. I've attended one-dayers, but I've not yet managed a T20. I'm not sure I'm up for the razzamatazz, I just like my cricket.
Like the version you get during the Sheffield Shield here in Australia, the interstate competition. You used to get a number of national players playing in the state teams too, but now they're off playing tests somewhere, elsewhere, all the time.
Still, I try to get to a session or two of the Shield, just to support the players. This is first class cricket after all. (Trouble is, I think my vigoro competition used to get larger crowds on a Saturday afternoon.) The best you could say is it is a *appreciative* crowd, polite applause as required, cricket as it was *meant* to be.
Plus, let's face it: photo opportunities...
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| Bowler, take off |
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| Fielded |
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| Bowled |
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| Batted |
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| Lights (in the camera) |
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| Craning for a look |
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| Tending the pitch |
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| Bowling flight |
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| To the boundary |
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| F-O-U-R |
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| Helmet |
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| Come in spinner |
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| Boundary rope |
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Lone player in the spot sunlight |
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| Patterns |
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| Strolling in |
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| End of the session, well done Queensland |
My earliest incarnation as a human with a camera included lots of 'sports' shots, it was once a direction I thought I might travel career-wise. There was once a one-day game between Australia and West Indies which I watched through a lens and six rolls of 36 exposure film (yes, a long time ago).
There is something of a challenge photographically to capture a moment frozen in time in sporting shots...I don't mind practising time and again, it is a nice way to spend an afternoon.
Sheffield Shield match, day/night, day 2, Queensland at home to the Tasmanians
[Camera : Canon EOS60D, 75-700mm, 3.01pm-5.55pm, 15 February 2016]
