the Next Level photo: Football, Week 3

It's week three and my fourth football game of the season. (Fourth because we had a scrimmage). I'm not sure why, but my body is sore and tired after shooting 7 hours of football. It was tough to carry my camera bag back to the car Sunday evening.

We played the Cornell Raiders Sunday afternoon on their field. It was grassy field that could have been mowed, but I am guessing that because of all our recent rain, that wasn't able to happen. At least theirs is green, whereas ours...is a pale shade of mostly brown. But the rain did give it some color, so it's really not all that bad any more. Their field was also very, very wet but not enough to get good mud shots or splashes of water. The light in that field is really wonderful, most likely because of the heavy overcast and clouds at game time. I was amazed when I started to see the pictures show up on my computer screen. The colors were beautiful.

I ended up shooting a tad more than 1800 pictures over three games. I will end up with a lot more sales photos than normal just because of the sheer number of images I shot. Those 1800 images will be narrowed down to 30 for the web galleries, 6 for the pictures of the week and about the same for this blog.

I had a difficult time picking blog pictures this week. Again, the number of images I took made for more to pick from. But I wanted to pick pictures that brought the emotion of the day. It's easy to pick the best action, or something different. This week, the blog picks are all about feeling.

Enjoy week 3. A few more pictures will be in the web galleries and even more on the sales site later this week.

If this doesn't make you stand up an cheer, nothing will