Three days in and I haven’t bombed out yet. Sometimes I surprise even myself.
Because of my regular schedule of shooting, today marks the first of what I expect will be several days during the month when my Picture of the Day is from a regular assignment.
The Brown County High School girls’ varsity soccer team hosted Jennings County High School tonight at Eagle Park, coming up short to the Lady Panthers, 2-1.
Today’s photo is of Lady Eagle Rebecca Wedan, as she tries to get around Jennings County’s Lydia Borgeman late in the contest. I like this photo because it has several layers of action: Wedan on offense, Borgeman on defense, another Brown County player backing Wedan up, and Lady Eagles’ coach David Phelps and a couple of alternates yelling from the sideline.
It hasn’t been that long ago that I didn’t really like photographing soccer much. The action moves from one spot to another on the field in no time, and unlike football, there’s really no way of predicting what might happen next. But over the course of the last two years or so, I’ve come to enjoy shooting it, mostly because of that challenge.
If you haven’t already, be sure to keep up with my wife Linda’s blog during our September challenge. You can find her amazing writing here.