One on One

Saturday was beautiful and instead of sitting in the house after Nathan's basketball game we went outside and shot baskets. Kaye and Nathan were showing off their basketball "skillz" while I practiced my photography. At least they could move and I could shoot with no complaining from the natives about taking to long to take my pictures. Nathan's skills have really improved this year in basketball. Although he is no Michael Jordan yet, he has gotten better. As he gets taller and develops a little more strength, he may give me a run for my money.
You can see that he is the perfect height to stick his hand in Kaye's face and disrupt her vision. I give him another year and then she may be in for a more difficult game when he is looking her in the eye's or worse yet, looking down on his mother. Really, he's supposed to be this tiny baby that fit so nicely in the crook of my arm, like a football!

As you can see, he has some mad dribblin' skillz as well. Kaye hurt for the rest of the day, knee's, ankle's, wrists etc. from the game.

This picture is proof that we do not have a flat driveway. It slopes away from the house and provides a less than stellar basketball court, but we make do. The free throw line is just a little far for him yet. He has a better average from the line than Shaq does though.

Before I bought my camera I heard that you should take pictures from high and low angles, not just the angle that someone who is six foot one would always see. I broke out the ladder and grabbed a few pictures as well. This one was, I think the best of the group. I used the smaller of my two lenses, 18-55mm shooting at 1/1000 and f7.1 with the lens set at 18mm. This would be a really cool picture with even a wider angle on the lens to distort the edges giving a more "fish eye" type look to the photo.