Tortoises are cool.

Some assignments are tedious. Waiting for someone or something to happen can get old.

But sometimes, even when the light is bad and there are lots of other things to be doing, you get to step back and realize that the world out there is pretty amazing.

Terrell's library has a summer series of kid events called "Terrific Tuesdays." The kids have a great time, the adults, not so much.

But then sometimes you get to see a giant tortoise, which doesn't happen every day. It took me a minute to get un-jaded and say.. "wow, that is a huge tortoise."

Because huge tortoises are very cool. And we should be careful to recognize the cool things when we see them. Even if the light is bad.

Don J.

Covering all of the bases

One of the fun things of all the technology and photo sharing capability we have these days is seeing the shots other photogs get at the same events.

And, I must admit, it can get competitive. Not that it amounts to anything, but it keeps me, especially as the newspaper guy, on my toes and looking for good shots. It also lets me know when I am not on my "A" game :-).

Case in point, baseball last night as Terrell travelled to Forney. Jim over at Terrell Daily Photo was on hand and posted these shots...

Ah.. for me, not so good. The curse of really good and fast autofocus is that if you get off your mark, the grass makes a great focus target.


And, if you focus on the opposing team's player, well.. your guys are just fuzzy. This has to be within a millisecond of Jim's shot... makes it fun to go back and forth between the two for the different perspectives.


OK, enough of that. It has been nice now that with Daylight Saving time in effect. The games start in beautiful evening sunlight, so the first two innings are great.

Here is about the best I could take advantage of it on an off day.
Bouncing one off of the dirt..


.. and a reach for the out at first base.

Don J.