OK…so I just took the longest break in my blogging history, and I’m having a hard time deciding how to get back in the saddle, so I guess I’ll just jump!
In the past 2 1/2 months, I have taken at least 5,000 photos, and over 3,000 of them were of our baseball season. I say “our” because Seth coached and pitched, Ethan played and I sat on the ground and took photos. (Another mom gave me a hard time about always bringing a chair and then never using it. :) The ground was the best place for photos! I actually should have brought one of those gardening knee pads. My knees would have appreciated that!)
I didn’t do the best job at keeping up with the sorting and editing of the baseball photos as the season went along (maybe because I was trying to deal with the other 2,000+ photos that I was also taking?), which left me a rather big job at the end of the season. Our last game was last Wednesday and we had an end-of-season party on Friday, and I really wanted to get some photos into the hands of our players at that party. Prints were not going to happen, so I opted for CDs. Lightroom and I worked our tails off and managed to sort through 3,000+ photos, divide them up into collections for each kid (13 of ‘em), sort each collection and edit 20-30 photos for each kid, and put them on CDs for each kid (well, Seth did that last part for me). Ethan was kind enough to let me off the hook for finishing his collection on Friday, because, as he pointed out, he lives here. :) Thanks for understanding, buddy! I did get his done on Saturday and uploaded all the team photos (353 of ‘em) to a private team gallery. Can I just say that Lightroom is my bestest photography friend?! There is NO way I would have got that much done in that amount of time without Lightroom. And I learned so much about how to streamline this process for next time. Some of my favorite baseball action shots were of kids other than Ethan, but I’m not comfortable posting their photos on my blog, so I’ll share a few faves of my boy.
geared up for catcher…

checking out the line-up…

for a few games, he was a bit of a bat thrower…

the coach (my hubby) getting ready to pitch…it was a casual, earthy league…Birkenstocks welcome

the red batting gloves were a must…

it’s serious business running to first…

coming home is best…

last minute pointers…

I think he got it!

We’ve discovered an opportunity to play “Fall Ball” very close to home, so we asked Ethan if he’d rather play more baseball this fall or play soccer. With zero hesitation it was baseball. So, after a summer of neighborhood swim team, I think we’ll be back to baseball, which makes both my boys very happy.
For our second to last game, we actually had family from Alaska here, which is a rare treat (and worthy of its own post).
Ethan and his cousin who’s closest in age…
