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Random Photo thread

I suppose this could be a "went for ride" pic, but folks have seen enough pier pics there, well, maybe here too.....

My evening-sunset ride got diverted this evening, which is okay. Went bye the beach after sunset. On a nice warm day was lot of cars there, so didnt have much choice of a place to park, but, Tried this sort of shot.

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Not having tripod along (need to do something about that), I went across to campsite on other side of roadway to use the powerpost as a camera prop, and still needed to go to higher ISO, zoom in (and further limit my framing options).
 
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Redman said:
Matching greens ones too.
Where did you ride (besides that parking lot)?
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Rode along the East shore of Kentucky Lake through Tennessee Ridge, Erin, Cumberland City, Clarksville and Dover Tennessee before heading back into Kentucky.
 
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Dave, I had a similar experience when doing my picture of the week game this week. I hadn't realized how dependent I've become on using the tripod when using lower ISO settings.

I'm becoming more dependent on glasses as well, particularly when using manual focus.
 
Redman said:
I suppose this could be a "went for ride" pic, but folks have seen enough pier pics there, well, maybe here too.....

My evening-sunset ride got diverted this evening, which is okay. Went bye the beach after sunset. On a nice warm day was lot of cars there, so didnt have much choice of a place to park, but, Tried this sort of shot.

QzI1MXXl.jpg

Not having tripod along (need to do something about that), I went across to campsite on other side of roadway to use the powerpost as a camera prop, and still needed to go to higher ISO, zoom in (and further limit my framing options).
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On the bike I quite often pack one of those C-clamp mounts with a ball mount head. There's usually something to attach it to. Even the windscreen with rag so it doesn't get scratched.
 
Proud Dad/Coach moment tonight. My high school sophomore played his first HS lacrosse game tonight, after being sidelined the last 2 weeks with a concussion suffered during practice. And he scored 2 goals! And he paid for it. See last pic. It's a rough sport, especially for the kids who are skilled at carrying the ball and shooting. Didn't matter to me who won (we didn't), as I had coached every kid on the opposing team and most of the kids on ours from the ages of 7 or 8 through 8th grade in our regional youth league. I decided after my second kid was done with youth lax, I'd quit. I really have no desire to coach HS. We'll see what happens next year when our coach who's kid is a senior, leaves. Anyway, here's some shots from tonight's game.

Second of Noah's 2 goals. See the ball between the goalie's feet. I was also video taping (do they still call it that?) for the team, so didn't get too many shots w/ my camera:
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playing w/ filters a little bit:
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Battle Scars:
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Congrats on your sons accomplishments, Rich.
Played a lot of box lacrosse decades ago but never field. Both are great sports.
 
Rich, Hey, sports photography.
Would you be a past LAX player yourself? Or a involved Dad that got recruited to be a youth coach with no experience?
 
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Rich, Hey, sports photography.
Would you be a past LAX player yourself? Or a involved Dad that got recruited to be a youth coach with no experience?
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The latter. Due in large part to my dad’s involvement with such things, there were 2 thing that I wanted to be as a dad of 2 boys: a Scout leader, and a youth sports coach. I’ve been a Cub/Boy Scout leader since 2007, and have always loved Scouting. I have one Eagle Scout and another well on his way; Started with T-ball and coach-pitch baseball, then when my older son was 8 or 9 we discovered lacrosse. I had no experience other than having watched a few games on ESPN when I was a kid, didn’t have the first clue what the rules even were. But the whole family fell in love with the sport. I attended a bunch of coaching clinics, and it’s been all lax, all the time, ever since.
 
Congratulations for your son; it's one sport my high school never had nor do I understand it but I'm sure it's not an easy one.
 
Lacrosse, for those unfamiliar with the sport, is considered “the fastest game on 2 feet”. We’re fortunate to have 2 DI lax schools very close by: Bucknell U and Penn State. During non COVID years, Bucknell is literally 10 minutes away and games are free. PSU is an hour, and charges a small admission. Most colleges, for now, have very limited fan admittance. Some allowing no fans at all. College games are very exciting. I highly recommend, if you have even a small college nearby, and it’s allowed, go watch a game.
 
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Good for you Rich.

i let the local youth soccer league talk me into volunteering, so I check the box for “willing to help at practice”, then I was sent info for my “duties as assistant coach”. Then the coach told me what weeks he was going to be out of town. So, yah, some learning since I never played. A couple clinics. So that was the next several years for two kids. I untill neither made the high school team (with some mutterings about thier coaching).
We also got them into swimming . . . And that led into water polo for both of them, and rugby for one. And rowing for other. Including two years of MSU Big Ten water polo competition, and 4 years of college to rowing. Was good for them.
 
I received a phone call from the mail room of the Dayton VA Hospital today saying they had a package for me. After getting the okay from the boss (we have to tell them whenever we go into the hospital since COVID started), I rode the bike out and picked this up. It says 30 years of total Federal service although technically it's closer to 32: 20 years active duty AF, 2 years as a government contractor, and then another 10 years as a Government Civilian (1 year AF and 9 years VA). I miss the days when they would hand this to you in person but since we are a national team (folks everywhere from Hawaii out to New Jersey on our team) it's still nice to get.

30 Years Service by Scott Baker, on Flickr
 
Big congratulations to the Honourable Mr. Scott Baker. WooHoo to you.
 
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