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This is nearly 2 months old now, but decided to post.
I was one of the photographers for the MN State Amateur Tournament this year. I'm just a serious hobbyist myself, and do a lot of HS shooting in one of the towns that hosted games. Through a friend of a friend kind of thing, I got asked to help this 3 weekend event. Had a blast, but wow what a TON of work!
One afternoon, one of the site organizers asked if I could get some pictures of the ballpark at some point for the town webpage. So after a few innings, I started to wander around to get some shots. I wandered around the outside of the fence to get some different angles toward the field, and in center field there was a door in the fence to get out of the field which had a gap around the pipes framing the door. So I put on a short lens and took some shots to stitch together a pano from dead center.
I finished up those shots and put my 70-200+2x back on my 1Dx. I literally started to walk away when I heard the crack of the (wood) bat. I took a step back and peeked through the opening. It was a shot to right and I saw the runner was going to try to make 2nd. So I picked up my camera for some reason, and lined it up through the gap around the door in the fence. And this materialized right before my eyes. I was literally in that spot for no more than 30 seconds (maybe even less) over 3 weekends of shooting, and was walking away as the ball was pitched. Someone wanted me to have this opportunity I guess. I certainly couldn't have captured anything like this from any other spot. The runner that was thrown out actually hit a walk-off home run 2 days later to win the state championship.
Could be one of my favorite pics I've ever taken, and definitely one of my luckiest. If I'm more excited about it that others are, that's OK too.
Out at 2nd!
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