Caged

Softball was rained out. Again.

Night shift in September means you shoot quite a lot of sports, which is great, except its also rampant out-of-nowhere storm season, so you also spend a lot of time getting soaking wet shooting not-sports that would have been sports except said sporting event was rained out. But we need art and everything can’t come from the wire. So get photos of them not playing whatever sport because of the rain.

The two are sort of redundant, but my camera was wet and viewfinder fogging over so I couldn’t really see what I was getting. Better safe than sorry. Plus, variety is good, just in case certain not-sports persons who might or might not be in positions of authority see that second photo and immediately interpret it as an ass shot and raise holy hell. Which it isn’t, but they probably would. Don’t get me started.

Variety is also good because it helps you convince the sports editor that although below shot is nice and perfectly fine I guess…

… it is the generic and expected rain out, and who the hell wants to be generic if you can be… not generic.

Of course after photo(s) were selected, that led us on a mighty search for Headline Puns, because it just wouldn’t be the sports section without at least one pun a day. And from weather… batting cages… cages… Maya Angelou… Maya Angelou on Saturday Night Live… oh frooty loops, froot loopies…

… and it has become apparent that I will never truly be one of the Sports Guys until I can recite everything funny that was ever on TV ever by heart at a moments notice.

I guess that’s fine since I’m a photographer anyway. Oh well.

And it better lay off on the rain a bit soon, because if my shoes don’t get a chance to dry out, there is going to be some serious wet shoe stank tromping through the office. And I’m going to share it with everyone.

Oh, and I think they went with…

Caged aggression: Stormy weather cancels softball games, cross country meet