Spring/2003 GRU Ether Bunnies

As an amateur photographer, it's fun to take the camera out to an occasional frisbee game and shoot some pictures while sitting out my turn - click here to see more of 'em including the contendor for the longest car in GRU! ;-)

Here are some misc. pictures shot on a doubleheader on Sunday, June 8th, 2003. Notice also that the fields/grass are looking MUCH better than last year when we had the draught - for more info on that, check out watching grass grow - one nice thing about the lack of water is I didn't need my weed eater, weed whacker, or any weed killer to handle the weeds.

P.S. For you camera buffs out there, these were shot with a Canon G3 digicam, which is a 4 megapixel, 4X optical zoom. While it doesn't quite have the "reach" of the Nikon 5700 (which is 5 megapixel, 8X optical zoom), it still shoots darn nice shots and rival/surpasses it in some respects in my opinion - read more here if you are interested but can't touch something like a Canon 5D SLR - see the stepping santa pictures. There are two sequences at the bottom demonstrating the "motor drive mode" which does 2.5 frames/second - really not quick enough for sports, but still fun to play around with. I was shooting aperature priority of F4.5, and with the sunny day (typically behind me), I was getting anywhere from 1/500 to 1/1000 shutter speeds. Stephen Krog shot some of these while I was playing.

An unknown person make a giant successful leap to swat this pass to Trudi



Michael goes up WAY high to block this pass to John - count the legs! ;-)

Can you say "Hospital Throw"	Lisa has a little less traffic on this one
Lisa fires from the end zone through a leg block	Another throw at the camera now from mid-field
People just like to throw to the camera!	4 megapixel goofing around ... ;-)
Incoming Frisbee at Steve	Another incoming frisbee at Stephen

Captain Gary puts the "D" on Steve	Same "D-face" presented to Seth
Captain Gary shows his "O-face"	Now that is pancaking a disk

Everyone lines up to watch Steve catch this score	John emerges from the crowd with another score

John slips one by Michael's tight D	Mike gets a throw off downfield

I'm not sure if Vicki ends up with this one	But there is no doubt on this grab!

Gary fires down field	It's going ...	... going ...	... and Mike comes up with the catch
Mike "takes one" for the team - ouch! ;-)	But he turns to throw a bender to Gary	who makes a great catch in traffic	A closeup of that

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