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Another frame from the longhorns set:
And a decidedly more ‘real’ living thing, a Green Heron fishing / playing hide and seek with me and my camera yesterday. One of the leading contenders for this coming week’s theme.
Yeah, next game I may try to do that, last night we were with a fairly big group so stuck to my seat for the most part. After the game I make a minor detour to the shopping center/mall next to the park where I knew they had some bronze statues for the upcoming “Carnival of the Animals” contest. I think this is my best of that set:
After all of Yogoboy’s recent shots of his local minor league baseball team, knew I had to make it to a Frisco Rough Riders game this season. A few days later my cycling club posted that they were putting together a group outing to the ballpark for a game. I love it when a plan comes together. It was an evening game, 7pm first pitch, and there was a lot of building clouds in the area last night, so lighting wasn’t the best after about the 3rd inning, requiring me to max out the ISO of my XSi. Enough noise in those shots where I decided the only thing to do with them was alter them enough to look ‘artistic’ly noisy.
First shot of the night, and probably one of the best. This was taken with my 55-250 while there was still enough light to use it. Soon switched to the 300mm f4.5 Nikon lens.
Good thing about baseball is that other than the base runners, most of the action happens more or less in place in the infield. Making using a manual focus lens a little easier to deal with.
Rough Rider’s mascot, don’t ask me what it’s supposed to be. He is neither rough, nor is riding anything.
Frisco was playing the ‘Hooks’ of Corpus Christy, a team affiliated with the Houston Astros, #50 is an Astro’s player coming off an injury. Easily this most productive player at bat for either team last night.
Really wish I’d got this shot earlier in the night when there was more light. Going to either need to be much closer next time, or go to a day game.
