My niece's first game of 2009

Well I am very excited to be shooting soccer again. Hard to believe it has been a whole year already. Well my son unfortunately did not want to play this year however my niece decided to play and of course I agreed to shoot her games as photographing sports I have found is becoming very addictive.

This is one of my favorites from the game although it is the back of my niece. Her oponents facial expression displaying her determination is priceless.

And this is also a favorite of mine alot of action in this shot and the intensity on the faces says it all.

And had to get in a sportrait as well

I have been fortunate enough to get a few of her face but she plays defense and her back was to me alot more than not. ( if I only had that 300mm or 400mm with an extender for when she is on the other end of the field) OH Well all in good time

Thanks for looking

Chad

Thousand Islands Enviromental Center

Well I met up with three other photographers at Thousand Islands Enviromental Center. I really enjoyed spending time with them and seeing just how much work a portrait photographer has to do. Well I did not take part in trying to get a handle on portrait photography although this seemed to be a place that offered great scenes for it. I instead stuck with my comfort zone and photographed wildlife.

Here I took a shot of some of the terrain Mike and myself had endured to get much closer to the wildlife than the board walk would allow.

I must say out of the entire day this is my most favorite I just love how the sun is shining in and highlighting the tree and the outline of this doe.

And here is another doe she was accompanied by her two fawn which you will see in the other three photos after this one.

I honestly can say I have never been this close to deer before it was unbelievable how they just accepted the fact that we were there and just went about there buisiness as if we were not even there.

Thanks for looking

Chad