An Evening of Pitching and Putting
B ack in mid-August, we had a nice evening of pitching and putting in the backyard with some of the grandchildren. This type of thing is always a great opportunity for capturing photos of the grandkids so, naturally, I had a couple of cameras and a few lenses on hand. While they played, I kept moving around trying to capture the best angles. Shooting photos of kids means getting down on my knees or crouching or sitting on the ground but my knees have been painful and swollen since my first bout with COVID-19 so this little informal photo shoot was a bit painful. Even if I sit on the ground, getting down onto the ground and getting up again is painful. Kneeling or crouching, however, will put me back on crutches again so I always avoid those two positions. Still, I refused to resort to shooting photos of kids while looking down on them. Kids should always be photographed down at their level. It was beginning to get dark as the sun set behind the trees but we still had some sun