Optimists Basketball in Summit County - What a Great Season!

Tonight is the last game of the season for my son's 5th grade Optimist's Basketball season - Beaton Photography sponsored the team, so I tried to bring my camera and document a few great plays of the season!

Lighting is often difficult in these gymnasiums, and especially adjusting white balance. But I used the Nikon D700 with my Nikkor 70 to 200mm lens. No flash and usually ISO's of 2000 captured most of these images. Sports photography is interesting as it captures a moment in time, and sometimes makes the players look a little silly - or at least not in great basketball form. Sorry about that boys! You look better than that in person!

All photos can be viewed online....

















Thanks to all the volunteer coaches and referees that make the basketball program. And thanks to a few good volunteers, like my Heather & Kirk, for volunteering to keep score!

We LOVE Keystone Science School!

I have spent the last two days at Keystone Science School, chaperoning my son's 5th grade class, and trying to capture as many images as I could to "document" the week in photos. I also played a little with lenses and settings best for snow photos.

A full slideshow of the week is online here.....

And I don't do video, but this Making an Avalanche is the closest to video that I've done for awhile! Just 30 seconds & fun!

I learned a lot about snow that I didn't know.... I think I enjoyed it as much as the kids!

And a few of my favorite photos....

Last 2 days of the school year.....2009!

The last couple days of the school year has been pretty exciting here in Summit County, even if it has been raining nonstop all week!

Monday was Field Day - usually a beautiful June day on the playground, no work, just playing time. This year it was pouring rain, so "Field Day" was held inside! From the photos, you can see that it was still ALL FUN and all playtime and the kids really didn't notice that they weren't outside!

The whole FIELD DAY slideshow can be viewed here.....





and the following day, my baby Heather was promoted from 5th grade, on her way to middle school in the fall! Apparently we don't call it graduation, but promotion, or advancement, or continuation, and I'm not really sure why, but here's the

5th grade PROMOTION slideshow.....

and some of my favorite images from the day!








There was a roast of the teachers, and some serious silliness, and David was one of the silliest as you can see here: