OUR DECEMBER ACTIVITIES

I have fallen a bit behind in blogging, but I will catch up in the next few days. Stay Tuned!

I went to a Phoenix Suns basketball game and tried natural light photography from our seats with a Cannon A1100 IS point and shoot digital camera. It has no sports setting, so there always a little delay between pressing the shutter button all the way down and the camera actually capturing the image. I set the camera to a mild telephoto and kept the shutter button pressed half way down to have it focused when and where I expected the action to be. These are some of the better shots I made. It helped that our seats were in row 9!

 

Outlet pass after a rebound. The passer is Channing Frye, with center Marcin Gortat beginning to run and all-star guard Steve Nash at the far right.

 

The shooter here is somewhat fuzzy (38 year old Grant Hill?), with Gortat in front of him and no. 3 Jared Dudley with his back to us.

 

Here the second unit is on the floor. Guard Sebastian Telfair just slammed the ball while our no 1 draft pick, no. 11, Markieff Morris starts back down the floor. He is showing skills which make me think that he will be an excellent player in a year or two. The player at the free throw line is our tallest center Robin Lopez. Guard Shannon Brown is at the far right.

 

 

 

I have no idea who put up this long shot, perhaps a three pointer. Morris in the center is “boxing out” an opponent to deter him from getting the rebound in case the shot is missed. Who says that basketball is not a contact sport!  It is late in the game and the Suns are behind, so the second unit is getting more than its usual floor time.

 

Late in the game with the Suns behind, the crowd has started to leak out! Telfair is shooting a free throw.

 

Lopez’s free throw is in the air and two Sixers are boxing out Hakim Warrick to keep him from getting a rebound if the  shot is missed.

 

This is a bit fuzzy, but Telfair is just launching a jump shot, with Lopez cutting toward the basket looking for a rebound if the shot is missed and Warrick is looking on.

 

 

My son Monty and Jo by our Christmas tree. Monty loves to sing Karaoke and perhaps is dressed up to go out to sing.  Audiences really appreciate him.