Another great night of baseball at Governor’s Field in Carson City, NV! Â The weather’s been hot and apparently supposed to get even hotter over the weekend… yikes!
Photo of the Day tonight was easy… we can also play “you make the call”! Was the ball or the runner’s foot there first? 🙂
 There was a fantastic sky out to the southwest tonight… I’ve already seen several shots from around Carson City, what a sight!
We’re off and off with a BANG!  There were some GREAT games Wednesday night!  Carson and Reno American 10’s even went extra innings!  Check out more here or at the link under current events or under photo galleries…
Here’s the “Photo of the Day” for Day 1 of the tournament, something a little different… The Truckee shortstop caught the throw from the catcher and was set to tag the runner… but the runner stopped and tried to make his way back to first… the runner slipped a bit which made the tag easier for the shortstop but still a fun play to watch (see the entire play in the Truckee gallery…).  Stop by our tent for your “gift”… 🙂
Summer Softball… fun and games, right?  Contrary to what you might see in some of the photos here on the site (… I caught the more often than not… smile! 🙂 ) these gals are all about the business of softball!  Fun fun FUN to watch and photograph for sure… a long weekend for us, no doubt!
Here are just a few shots from the weekend in Carson City, NV this past weekend, (June 22nd and 23rd) at the Edmonds Sports Complex… check out the Softball links on the site to see more!
The weather has finally come and dropped a bunch of water on the high school baseball tournament fields in Northern Nevada… which caused some creative scheduling with today’s games, several having to be moved due to unplayable conditions… tonight Galena hosted Carson at Carson’s Ron McNutt field (for those of you that don’t know… Coach McNutt is now coaching at Galena… so a bit of a homecoming for Coach McNutt…)
Galena ended their season in a four way tie for second place with a 16-6 record and entered the playoffs, due to the tie-break system in the 5th spot.  Carson ended in 8th with a 7-15 record.  Tonight’s game went to Galena who will face Spanish Springs tomorrow in the next round of the playoffs… Check out the NIAA Site for the full bracket….
Something a little different tonight… I’ve been learning about time lapse photography and thought I’d give it a try… this is a 1:43 “movie” from the warmups and the entire game tonight… I’ve gotta do some more research regarding the players… but the sky is quite cool until it gets dark… then it’s just… well… dark 🙂
And here are some additional shots from the night… no particular order… 🙂  There are many many more in the galleries from the season.  Please contact me with any questions regarding the galleries.  Thanks fellas for another season!
Just a quick photo post… I learned a lot tonight about it… I’ll post more later…
It’s “mid season” time… Spring Break… well… if you’re Washoe County… Carson and Douglas had their Spring Break last week… So goes the majority, so goes the schedule… Spanish Springs is hosting a Spring Break Tournament this week… Day One, originally scheduled for Monday got pushed out 24 hours due to the snow on the fields (thank you!)… Play resumed Tuesday afternoon/evening at Carson High and Spanish Springs….
Carson hosted Douglas for the first game at Carson High… Here are a few shots from the game… I tried something “new”… not sure what I think… I’m not sure if many of you caught the photo that the Nevada Appeal ran awhile back of Tim Lincecum of the SF Giants… this is the same “technique”… if you can call it that… NO Photoshop here, absolutely NONE, this is all in camera… This done in Photoshop would appear much different, less “ghosting” for lack of a better term… (Check out Custom Collages to see an example of that… click here scroll to the bottom…).  It’s something different… I’m gonna continue playing with it… I have some ideas on how to use it a little differently that may give me better results… Stay tuned!
Douglas hosted Galena today for the second game of their series… Here are some photos from the game. Â Galena worked their way to an early lead and the Douglas bats that came to life in the seventh inning weren’t enough. Â Galena took both games of the series.
The Reed Raiders hosted the Carson Senators today at the Reno Ace’s Ballpark… here’s some of the action… The Senators took the game 7-2.
The First Pitch!
I’m back posting to the blog! 🙂  Been out to games lately (adding to the galleries…) but just not posting to the blog, I’ve been working on a project for our old time studio in Monterey, CA (Doc Wenzel’s Old Time Portraits) that consumed a lot of time last week… just “implemented” it on Monday this week….
I made the trek up to Galena today to shoot the Galena Douglas game… and just as I figured it was a great game!  This was the second Galena game I’ve been to which ended with a walk off home run to end the game… there’s more to the story though… it’s been the same player in both games…!  This time I got it! 🙂 Go Ben!
SUPER windy & rainy… that’s the beauty of baseball photos, you can’t really tell that, they wear caps! Also with a little overcast the harsh shadows on the faces go away… makes for “better” lighting, even though it was a “yucky” day there’s “better” light so possibly “better” photos…
Here’s some action from the day…
Douglas catcher Caleb Foster ready to make the throw to first for an out….
Jimmy King swinging for a hit.
Dillon Lopez added several hits to make this a game!
Douglas’ “workhorse” pitcher Kyle Johnson… great quote in the RGJ from Coach Jacobsen!
Starting pitcher Nathan Barry for Galena.
Relief pitcher Dylan Tockey.
… and after a BUNCH of bench “posturing” from both sides… visits to the mound, chats with batters… we ended the game with this series…
I wonder what Coach McNutt said to Ben Barnard… must have been good…
… it lead to this…
… which lead to this! Â Great shot Ben!
The Grizzlies hosted Carson Tuesday for the first of their series… it started out looking like it was going to be quite a game, runs scoring, one team scores, the other answers… then we got to the 4th inning… Carson opened with three runs and the Galena flood gates opened with 9 runs. Â The game ended in the bottom of the 5th inning with a Ben Barnard grand slam to put the game in the books 17-6!
The series continues at Carson Thursday evening under the lights, 6:00 First pitch. Â The game is a White out for Carson with a gate promo for wearing white. Â Get out and support your team for an evening game at Carson High.
Here are a few shots from the 3:45 PM game at Galena…
The ball going out… I usually get it coming in… 🙂 this series in the gallery has both…
… it’s JUST about there…
Is he safe? Is he out?
