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I’d like to apologize for not uploading anything lately. I’ve be retardedly busy and just straight up to lazy open lightroom and make galleries. Eventually, I will get around to it.

I’m all depressed now that I don’t have any sports to follow. It’s going to be a long summer without sports to follow. Looks like portraits and boredom fighting out at the gardens. Lol.

Galleries will be uploaded late tomorrow, if things go correctly.

It was tonight, and went without issue. Took 100+ shots. Gallery will be up this weekend along with pictures from the last basketball game I covered.

Considering Facebook’s status entry box is way to small for me to put what I want to say into it, I thought I’d bring it here. So, let me get on my soapbox, and begin.

First off, I want to say, what am I gonna do now that I don’t have any games to cover? Answer that in a comment.

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Okay, serious business now.

Since my senior year started, I’ve followed the football, boy’s soccer, and boys basketball…religiously. It’s been unfortunate, for all of them, to make it as far as they did and then lose it all in one game. I’ll admit, I followed the football team better than I did both the soccer and basketball teams. I hate losing, and I especially hate watching a team that I care about lose. And tonight was no exception. We played hard, kicked ass, but those two extra points that Jack Britt had over us, killed us. To say that I know how the players feel, would be a lie, but I’ve been in the same situation as them, just not on the same scale.

See, for me, every year my traveling soccer team goes to tournaments. We lose in one, oh well. Next year is there, right? Well, for school, it’s a different story. 4 years is all that high schoolers have. Me, I’ve had 6 chances thus far, and another coming up later this year. So, as I said above, to say I know how they feel, would be a lie, and I don’t do that.

My hat goes off to the players of all of the programs at Pinecrest. The pride and determination you guys have/had this year, is astounding. To say I’m impressed with how well we have done this year, is an understatement. Considering, this was my first year following the major teams at Pinecrest, of course I have good things to say. As for the future, well…

I am planning on coming back next year (college permitting…hopefully) and it’ll be nice to see some familiar faces out there. I’m gonna follow the football team no doubt and most likely the major home games that the soccer team plays. Basketball, I’m a little iffy about, I haven’t decided on that yet, but I’m thinking I will.

I want to say one small thing, it’s been great taking pictures this year for Pinecrest. Been loads of fun, made a few new friends (you know who you are), reconnected with a few old ones, and put nearly eleven thousand pictures through the various cameras I have used. For you kiddies still stuck on film, do the math. 1 roll = 36 exposures = 36 pictures. 11,000/36 = approx. 305 rolls of film. Thank god for the digital age. I’d be broke!

Again, it’s been fun. Look for me next year! I’ll be wearing the traditional red shirt and black shorts. And during the colder games (of football and soccer), my green PC Football hoodie (thanks Metzger).

PS: Tonight was the loudest I have EVER heard a crowd at Pinecrest. I mean, LOUD! It was actually loud enough that it was hurting me ears. And this is coming from someone who listens to loud music on a daily basis and has taken 160+ decibels to the head! My God! And the pep band, glad to see you guys there!

OH!! SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT(s)!!

Considering I’m the nice guy I am (pfft…who am I kidding), I’ll spend the next few weeks gathering copies of my pictures into folders for the cheerleaders. When I can get my hands on some burnable CD’s, I’ll start building a stack! Don’t be upset if you don’t get a disc. I shot loads of pictures of flyers/stunters, etc. I went for action shots. Again, I’m sorry if I didn’t get you in any of my pictures.

The second announcement is for the squad in general. Again, when I can get my hands on some burnable CD’s (I think I have one laying around here somewhere), I’ll begin the process of gathering the best of the best for you guys to use in your slideshow (according to Allison) or the DVD (according to Carley). Whoever is in charge of the slideshow/DVD making, talk to Carley, as she’ll have the disc. Why? Because she parks next to me, which makes my life easier. Haha. Oh, and when the individual discs are done, she’ll have those as well.

The third announcement is, about my galleries. I know I’ve been slacking off lately, but I’ve been backlogged with loads of stuff. I’ll have them up this weekend. Tonights game, is unfortunately going to be a combined gallery. I don’t have multiple memory cards for the D60 as I do for my mentors D300/S5Pro. So, I shot everything in one folder, on one card. Mash everything together, and boom, there yah go. I might do that in the future anyway, as that’ll make navigation easier on here.

The fourth announcement is, if you have any questions or you’d like to contact me directly, post a comment below or message me on Facebook. The easiest, and quickest, is to send me a text. That’s available on my profile…FRIENDS ONLY however. If you do text me, make sure you tell me who you are. When you do, I’ll make sure that I let you know if a disc is coming your way.

Thats about it. Oh, and as for the pictures on the disc, feel free to do what you want with them. Just, if you post them online, give me credit for them.