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Saturday, February 15, 2014

February 2014, Part I: Lunar New Year Parade

(I'm almost certain there will be a Part II)

I had a day to myself on Super Bowl Sunday earlier this month, and in the days before, I began looking for something to do. I realized that the Chinese/Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown was being held that same morning. I figured out that I could attend the downtown morning service that Sunday morning and be but a few quick subway stops away from the start of the parade, and a plan was made.

As I went through my experience at the 2013 Pride Parade in my head, I recalled just how crowded and nearly miserable it was at the Pride parade, with so many people jostling for position on the parade barricades for a view (let alone a shot with their cameras); and I specifically remember being at the Pride parade and watching with envy (and exasperation) as photographers walked by on the inside of the barricades along with the parade participants. So a lightbulb went off. I fired off an email to the parade organizers requesting a media pass that would get my inside the gates, figuring I had nothing to lose.

And it worked!

So I set off that morning with the Sigma 50-150mm tele lens on my D7100 and the Sigma 10-20mm on my D40. (In hindsight, perhaps I should have swapped these. Also, I perhaps should have swapped the long tele for the 35mm?). I looked for some tips on shooting parades. The pieces of advice I found centered on filling the frame with people's faces, getting crowd reactions, and walking with the parade route. I only really followed the second one with any consistency. After shooting this first parade inside the barricade, my only insight or thing-to-remember for next time would be to get familiar with the parade route beforehand if possible to know where to (possibly run to) set up for shots; also, while I would encourage anyone/myself to get up in close to people but to keep awareness to avoid collision or embarrassing yourself/myself (I had at least one close call; also, there were other photographers there, some press guys included, and I tried to balancing getting in close to get a shot with not being a douche and getting *in* everyone else's shot).

Here are a few from the set. The whole set, for now, is hosted on my Google Plus page.







Sunday, February 09, 2014

January 2014

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I'm playing fast and loose with the format for my photo updates. 

Also, I don't really intend for this blog to be a photoblog, regardless of the evidence of the past year. I do have a few ideas for non-photography related posts, but photography has dominated my thoughts and free time for quite a while. That's going to change this year, due both to impending life changes (and consequently, schedule changes) as well as a stubborn desire to work out my thoughts on current events and culture in this public space (it's my blog, after all).

But as I mentioned before, I do intend to continue making semi-regular posts absent a formal "Project 52" structure this year, and the format will likely be via monthly posts displaying the photos I think best show what I saw or what I wanted to see or what I want t the viewer to see. 
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Dinosaurs Overhead
I've always loved dinosaurs. (Well, that's not entirely true. I didn't really love Jurassic Park as a kid. I was interested in dinosaurs as fossils and pictures and facts on a page; I wasn't really so much into the Discovery Channel on crack-infused steroids.) And AMNH is a must-see whether you're visiting NYC or if you actually live here.

Land of the Free
 I'll admit, there's a lot going on in this photo; probably too much. I camped out in front of this video American flag and caught this guy looking over his shoulder as he went by, just past the security cameras.

Winter Jam 1
Winter Jam 2
Winter Jam returned to Central Park (link to the 2013 Winter Jam "52 Project" Post). I came this year with the intent of measuring my improvement at tracking and focusing and capturing snowboarders. But the new camera body rendered that exercise moot, since I was mostly unfamiliar with my gear, still.

I got to focusing on this one little kid (in "2"), who was clearly a beginner. He didn't get a ton of air, and seemed to be still learning somewhat to snowboard, let alone pull off any tricks. You could see him get frustrated and pout every now and then; but he would always get back up the hill, either trudging or hustling. No one magically becomes Shaun White; there's a lot of hustle and trudge in the interim. Giving me a smile and a metaphor would probably have meant nothing to him; but I hope he gets it right, and rocks on, soon.

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

2013 Project 52, Week 52: Man on Steel

Week 52: December 24-31 
(tacking on the last day of the year to this week.)

In the midst of the end of year crunch these past two weeks, my lunch break has been an opportunity for me to slip out of the office for some fresh air and a chance to clear my head with camera in hand. I take a stroll around the block either to or about Bryant Park and the surrounding streets and just try to keep my eyes open. It's felt a little bit to me like I've "seen all there is to see" around these same few blocks, as I've trudged around the same trek for the past year now, whenever I've been in need of a breather; but I also recognize the ridiculousness of that idea: that I could really have "caught" everything there was to "catch" and "seen" everything there was to behold. No, even retracing the same steps from a day or even half day or hour before could and should yield different things to see in this City of Perpetual Motion. In a way, I think shuffling about the same paths all the time is a simple exercise in keeping my eyes sharp, looking out for "decisive moments" at which to spring into action.

This shot came at the end of one of my lunchtime strolls. They're constructing a shiny new tower across the street from my office building on the southwest corner of Bryant Park. I glanced up to see a few guys up on the steel beams, and my head exploded because I thought it was a really neat sight (and I had already put my camera away). So I pulled the camera back out and snapped a few. I think the guy saw me and even waved at one point.

As a testament to the new camera, I should note that this photo was taken at 35mm (or 52mm on a normal full frame). This is heavily cropped. 24 megapixels is laughably overmuch, but in this particular instance, it is amazing. I know it's not recommended to take photos and then crop like mad, but it was what I had to work with, and I really like how this came out.

35mm (DX) : ISO 360 : f/4 : 1/60s
Man on Steel
In other news, I can hardly believe I've made it to the end! I will do a wrap-up post later on.

2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 
Week 45 | Week 46 | Week 47 | Week 48 | Week 49 | Week 50 | 
Week 51 | 

2013 Project 51, Week 52: Christmas at Lincoln Center

Week 51: December 17-23

"Christmas in New York" holds a kind of mystical place in culture, I think; but for us, Christmases in New York have largely been spent with me at home and Sharon at the hospital.  This year, as with Thanksgiving, Sharon actually managed to have the day off, which was nice.

We had a pancake dinner for Christmas Eve, a tradition cribbed from the Pierce family, and we exchanged presents with each other sometime before Christmas and Christmas Eve since we are basically twelve years old and cannot wait until Christmas Day, a tradition started by the New York Tsay family. We really need to get better at that before we ever have kids. Or not.

With Sharon on a rotation that more or less allowed for free evenings, we had taken a few of the nights this particular week and weekend to get out of the house. This week's entry is of the plaza at Lincoln Center: I can hardly pass up a chance to shoot silhouettes. I played around with the cropped composition in post; the original showed the entire front of the Met Opera building, but I'm trying to teach myself to compose creatively. It's all so stiff to me, for now.

20mm (DX) : ISO 1600 : f/5.6 : 1/30s
Lincoln Center Christmas Tree!
Other excursions this week: we visited the Brooklyn Bazaar. This year's Bazaar seemed to be a bit smaller and more compact than last year's sprawling affair.

So Bazaar
 We also took advantage of the free admission at MoMA on Fridays to visit the famous museum. Sharon has a killer photo from this staircase that I will badger her for until she posts somewhere; until then, this is my contribution. These two sentences contribute nothing to the incredible experience that is the MoMA. If you're in town on a Friday night and like art, you should consider visiting between 4-8pm.

MoMA


2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 
Week 45 | Week 46 | Week 47 | Week 48 | Week 49 | Week 50 | 

Saturday, December 28, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 50: Snow

Week 50: December 10-16

It's incredible to me that I've made it so far this year on this project and that I'm now staring at Week 5-0. I'm a little behind due to the holidays, but I have not missed the week.

The week saw bitterly cold days just before an inexplicable few days of summer weather. One Saturday saw very heavy snow, which we made us determined to get out to the Park. Snow in New York (well, speaking for Manhattan) is really only any fun if you play in it in Central Park. 

It was a very wet snow falling that day. I don't have any rain covers or anythingfor my gear, so I Macguyvered a plastic baggy with a rubber band over my D40 and lens and hoped for the best. As far as I can tell they both made it out just fine.

After looking through my photos I'm realizing that I've been kind of crazy about the trees this winter. I love the leafless look. Maybe it's the strong lines the arms and branches create. I'm not sure I really know what to do with them from a composition standpoint. But it really, reliably draws my attention.

18mm (DX) : ISO 800 : f/8 : 1/60s
Upper West Side Central Park Snow


2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 
Week 45 | Week 46 | Week 47 | Week 48 | Week 49 | 

Monday, December 16, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 49: Getting in the Christmas Spirit

Week 49: December 3-9

It feels as if Winter arrived suddenly and ferociously here in New York this year. But along with the biting wind and cold temperatures came the inevitable "holiday spirit" (or hyper-consumerist buildup, if you prefer). Sharon and I ventured out to fight the crowds at Rockefeller Plaza and see the famous lighted Rockefeller Christmas Tree. You can't tell in these photos, but it was snowing rather heartily during our visit.

I've thought intermittently about the types of photography that I want to try to practice and improve upon. I don't know if this qualifies as a "landscape" (or perhaps you might call this a "cityscape"?), but it's one type or genre for which I'm trying both to sharpen my eye for recognition as well as to keep looking out for more unique shots. I picked this photo because it seemed like it might be a little out of the ordinary from the same vantages (either up close and at an extreme angle, or pulled far back) of the Christmas tree in the middle of Rockefeller Center. I like the convergence of the buildings of the plaza stacked upon the lighted tree branches. It's a subtler Christmas photo at Rockefeller Center, maybe?

10mm (DX) : ISO 1600 : f/4.5 : 1/80s
30 Rock Christmas Scene
The crowd at 30 Rock

2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 
Week 45 | Week 46 | Week 47 | Week 48 | 

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 47: Night on the Upper West Side

Week 47: November 19-25

Short post.

Been going crazy lately with tripod long shutter night shots. Here are two from around Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side.

20mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/22 : 10s
Upper West Side traffic
Apparently you aren't allowed to use a tripod at Lincoln Center. I fired off a few before a security guard asked me to put it away.

Lincoln Center

2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 
Week 45 | Week 46 | 

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 46: Chinatown

Week 46: November 12-18

We spent last Saturday trundling about Chinatown. It's been tough to visit a culinary temptation such as Chinatown while trying to eat healthier- between all of the dim sum restaurants, noodle restaurants, bubble tea restaurants, bakeries, and candy stores... there's a lot of room to do damage.

We saw this delivery man resting on his bike as we stumbled out of the Vegetarian Dim Sum joint (four word review: it was just okay), playing his lotto card in front of the First Chinese Baptist Church.

14mm (DX) : ISO 800 : f/5 : 1/30s
Lotto Break
From lunch we walked over to Columbus Park on Mulberry St wedged in between both Chinatown and the New York City Criminal Courthouse (where I spent a good deal of time earlier this year serving on a grand jury) and people watched a bunch of old Chinese folks playing cards, Chinese chess, and off-key erhus in a cacophonous ensemble led by a loud wailing old dude.

Chinese chess
We've spent not nearly enough time in Chinatown during our time here. Between all the grocery stores and the aforementioned food options, there's so much more to explore. I've had a thought, ever since my grand jury days, that I haven't been exploring the photographic opportunities in Chinatown nearly enough, either. Will have to remedy both those going forward.

2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 
Week 45 | 

Monday, November 18, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 45: Autumn Arrives in New York

Week 45: November 5-11

From one week to the next, I went from drought to surplus. Whereas the previous week I had but a few snaps of Millie in our living room window to pass for the weekly project entry, I had no fewer than five separate shoots to practice and to roll around in my mind for this week.

Sharon and I took a Saturday afternoon to stroll through our Central Park backyard and took in the arrival of autumnal colored leaves and their attendant allergens in action. Our visit to the Park was inspired by the annual Jazz and Colors jazz festival. We went from location to location to catch a menagerie of New York jazz groups all playing the same set all around Central Park. Our walk around the Park eventually brought us to the Mall, which is one of many of my favorite parts of the Park- it's an iconic view never wanting for the bustle of people and music and, this weekend, the splash of fall colors.

11.5mm (DX) : ISO 400 : f/8 : 1/125s
Autumn Stroll in Central Park
B&W Down the Mall
Honorable Mention
My other main photo project of the week comes courtesy of the end of Daylight Savings Time and the view down 6th Avenue (or, Avenue of the Americas to tourists) I see every evening around 5pm when I leave work. Once Daylight Savings ended and I began leaving the office when dark had settled in, I knew I had to haul my tripod with me to get a long-shutter photo of the Midtown evening glow.

Midtown evening glow: a 25-second exposure
It's a good week when I get and take more chances to make more photos. Indisputably. I miss it when I'm not out shooting, and when I'm out shooting, even if something frustrates me or I run into unexpected snafus or I end up somewhat bored with what I see, it's what I would rather be doing. It was a good week.

2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | Week 43 | Week 44 | 

Friday, November 01, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 43: Midday in Midtown

Week 43: October 22-28

I'd spent the last week far behind on posting entries due to (1) staying up late to watch my Cardinals fall flat in the World Series against the Red Sox and (2) attending the 2013 PhotoPlus Expo held at the Javits Center.

This Monday, I set out on my lunch break without anything specific in mind except that I hadn't really done much shooting for Week 43. I thought I might foray into Times Square, that squalid den of tourists and creepy fake Muppets, for the first time in a while to see what photos I could create.

I found a few interesting sights (that I might revisit in a later post), but when I was returning to the office, I came across this man taking a smoke break in front of an art piece on Broadway; he was so oblivious to me that I spent a solid 180 seconds at minimum shooting and re-shooting him after I noticed his silhouette against the midday sun. I've heard that it's difficult to make photos when the sun is almost directly overhead, but it is good for making strong shadows for one to utilize. Tucked that one away for future reference...

14mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/11 : 1/1250s
Smoke break

TKTS "amphitheater" in Times Square




2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | Week 42 | 

Thursday, October 31, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 42: Staten Island Ferry

Week 42: October 15-21

On what seemed like a rare weekend day off for Sharon, we slipped downtown to check out Battery Park and to take the Staten Island Ferry. I'd been once before on the Ferry, but this was Sharon's first time to go.

I struggled with the lighting on this particular day, since the shadows were so strong inside the Ferry while the sun shone brightly outside. It was such a particular challenge that I'd like to go back on another day to tackle it again. I don't know if it's something that can only be handled by using an external flash. I also noticed, as we were making our approach back to Lower Manhattan, how idea of a shot of the Manhattan skyline I could have had had I acted quicker to switch lenses to my wider lens. So- two ideas for a future trip across the Harbor (for free! A perfect excursion for any tourist/visitor).

This is, I believe, Lady Liberty's inaugural appearance on the Project:

35mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/7.1 : 1/400s
Passing by Lady Liberty


2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 
Week 38 | Weeks 39-40 | Week 41 | 

Thursday, October 17, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 41: Street Photoessay St. Paul/NYC

Week 41: October 8-14

I spent a little time in the past week reflecting on this photography project and on the minor miracle of my keeping up with the weekly entries up to this point. Doing something for 40 straight weeks does instill a bit of a routine and

So this past week I tried to make a more conscious effort to practice at finding street photography subjects. My entry for this week came from a work trip that took me to St. Paul, MN, for a few days. I noticed this bank of windows across the street from my hotel entrance one morning on my walk to the meeting location, and I returned to it later in the day to snap this shot.

35mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/4 1/20s
St. Paul Self Portrait



Wednesday, October 09, 2013

2013 Project 52, Weeks 39-40: Exploring Roosevelt Island

I noted in the previous week's entry that I wanted to keep looking for parks and other spaces in New York City to visit and soak up; I found one I liked so much I went two weekends running (plus a bonus space I discovered that I loved finding).

Tucked between the isle of Manhattan and the borough of Queens is Roosevelt Island. The island itself has interesting history, to understate things wildly. Today, it is home to the FDR Four Freedoms State Park and an incredible view of Manhattan and Queens from the middle of the East River. (It is also the future home of Cornell's tech campus, slated to open in 2017.)

At a meeting the week before, one of my colleagues told me about his visits to the Island to stay with his daughter when he was passing through town and raved about how accessible and great a view there was to be had from Roosevelt Island, so I decided to check it out for myself. There is an MTA subway station (the F train) on the Island, but the more scenic mode of transit to and from the Island is via the Roosevelt Island tramway, which accepts MetroCards! I'd ride it back and forth over and over, if given the time and opportunity.

I enjoyed my visit to the Island so much- the weather brisk, the sun bright, and the panoramic view of Manhattan so gratifying that I returned the next weekend, bringing Sharon with me. We picnicked on the grass by the walkway below, where I framed up and snapped this second photo.

Week 39: September 24-30
14mm (DX) : ISO 400 : f/5 1/1250s
Roosevelt Island Riverside




Week 40: October 1-7
35mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/4 1/800s
View from the picnic


Tuesday, October 08, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 38: Flatiron & Fountain

Week 38: September 17-23

I suppose I might eventually run out of iconic New York City locales to visit and shamelessly use for a backdrop for photos; that isn't likely to happen soon, though.

I set myself up at Madison Square Park (not Madison Square Garden, as I initially tried to tell a confused Sharon; these are not the same places, at all.) on a park bench near the water fountain that stands in the corner of the Park near the landmark Flatiron Building. I fancied this to be an exercise in the "street photography" discipline of finding a backdrop and waiting for something interesting to come through the frame. While I wasn't entirely successful in this particular task, I snapped a number of photos of the Flatiron Building and the fountain and settled on this "landscape" ("cityscape"? "travel photo"?) for this week's entry.

For all the time I spent putzing around our cave of an apartment, there are no shortage of truly lively and refreshing spaces here in the City where you can sit down quietly on a bench to watch the day pass by or stand in the middle of foot traffic trying not to look to conspicuous with a camera while keeping your head on a swivel looking out for interesting sights (or in my case, both). It's nice.

18mm (DX) : ISO 800 : f/11 1/30s
Extreme backlight @ the Flatiron Building


2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 | Week 35 | Weeks 36-37 | 

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

2013 Project 52, Week 35: Central Park Ball Fields

Week 35: August 27 - September 2

One of my favorite things about Central Park is the abundance of softball fields.* I stopped by the Heckscher Ball Fields last weekend and snapped a few shots. Wouldn't it be incredible to play a game of softball with the Midtown Manhattan skyline as your backdrop?

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11mm (DX) : ISO 200 : f/11 : 1/160s
Softball backdrop
* - (I'd thought about looking for a softball league to join, but I (a) never got around to it, (b) didn't know where even to look, and (c) am entirely not coordinated or athletic enough to be useful to anyone's team. But I always like to stop to watch whenever I pass by a game in progress on the fields. And the thought has occurred to me to find a team, if nothing else, to practice shooting softball photos with. Next year.)

2013 Project 52 entries:
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | 
Week 8 | Week 9 |  Weeks 10-13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | 
Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 | Week 21 | Week 22 | 
Week 23 | Week 24 | Weeks 25-27 | Week 28 | Week 29 | Week 30 | 
Week 31 | Week 32 | Week 33 | Week 34 |