Spring Training Baseball
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Horse workout time in the roundabout. Lila comes around Freestyle while keeping an eye on the photographer.
Easter egg coloring trying for soft pastels.
I learned you can color regular eggs they do not need to be hard boiled.
Shaun Anderson, #82 a non roster invitee, would pitch a full inning, with one strike out and he did not give up a hit. He did very good job, maybe he will make the club.
Goodyear, AZ
Another panorama....this time a leftover from Spring Training in Goodyear, AZ. Can't wait to head back for fall ball in just a couple of weeks!
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For my video; youtu.be/7uCWRBO_Nac
4°C,
Baseball in Central Park,
Central Park,
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Prospect Blake Swihart doubles to right field for the Red Sox against the Pirates. Didn't have my SLR with me but captured this with my point and shoot. You can see the ball exiting the left side of the frame.
The weather here lately, though quite changeable, has seemed more like late April than mid-March. It has 'felt' like spring, and as though there should be more wildlife around. Actually that won't happen for weeks yet.
I've always been envious of the shooters who get such marvelous warbler migration photos; I've never managed to get many satisfactory ones myself. Two factors apply.
First, some serious birders shoot from blinds, with tripods, aimed at fixed perching locations. I don't do that, so don't expect to be able to match those images.
Second, many of the same serious shooters use huge prime lenses...some of which cost enough to buy a very nice late model car. I cannot match that either. However, this year I have the best gear I've ever had for trying to capture the migrating birds up in the trees. I have the longest prime focal length I've ever owned, and a camera which seems to be excellent at capturing stationary subjects.
It is surprisingly different from all of the gear I've used over the last decade and a half, so the limiting feature right now is located behind the viewfinder. I'm using these early warm days to become familiar, and comfortable with the unfamiliar functioning of the new camera.
Going into the woods yesterday, I spent time stalking and trying to photograph such small birds as were in the area. Now that the Robins have returned, they give good opportunities, as they are not particularly skittish, are willing to perch in low branches, and have a very familiar call.
I want to satisfy myself that when / if I get opportunities during the late April / early May small bird migration, I can use the camera competently, and perhaps manage to get some decent portrait shots,.
(Last year, for whatever reason, I missed the migration completely. Those small birds...mostly warblers...are here for only a short time. If the weather in bad, or if one doesn't go into the woods on the right day, all is over for that season. I'll make every effort to be there this year, well-geared up and hopeful.
My son Jason and I at spring training at the Padres/Mariners Peoria, Az. stadium. The Rangers were playing the Padres. 33 hits and 22 runs in this game, what a game. Unfortunately the Ranges lost.
Enjoying Third Beach before the sun goes down and the tide comes in
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