a day at the races

About this time last year I got my digital camera and one of my first experiences was taking photos of the pacers at Fraser Downs at night. Well, today was the first soccer game of the season and #1 son was playing at an athletic park near the track. It's not that I wanted to miss his first game, but the track was calling me... Actually, I whipped over there as fast as I could (for a supposedly rural community, Cloverdale on a Saturday is a nightmare of traffic snarls) and got back 10 minutes into the game. Yeah, it was a real shame to miss the scintillating warm-up practice.

There was no racing today (though the casino was packed to the rafters with blue hair and OAP funds) but a couple of guys were excercising their charges (chargers?) as I had expected. I was hoping to get enough reference photos to create something entry-worthy for this year's Fraser Downs art exhibition/competition, but I fear I've left it too late. Not only that, I discovered that I had inadvertently set my camera to a lower-quality setting and the photos aren't what I had hoped. In any case, it did remind me of earlier photojournalist aspirations that never came to fruition, especially as I have finally mastered the trick of the delayed shutter for sporting events (which will be excellent for future soccer and Aussie Rules games, too).

PS Thanks to those kind souls who helped me launch my etsy shop. It was definitely enlightening to see that the art I would've bought is the stuff that sold first. Note to self: trust instinct.