Hello Doggie! - 3/6/10 - photo by Tina Yee

I love taking photos of animals coming up to my camera.

Ouch!!!! - 3/4/2010 - Photo by Annette Lein

I usually enjoy shooting sports as I don’t do it very often and it allows me to just react to what is happening in front of me.  I decided to try shooting the girls basket ball Class AA final at Gates Chili HS with a 300 mm lens, which is longer than I would normally use.  That choice paid off when Greece Arcadia’s #33 Jessica Sexton, bottom, went down hard as Aquinas’ #1 Teja Reaves, left, and #24 Clair Riley, right, fought her for possession of the ball.  Sexton was OK and  Arcadia won 60 -55.

Winners and losers - 03/03/10 - Photo by Annette Lein

While waiting for an 8pm basketball game to start at Letchworth High School Wednesday night, I was watching the exciting end to the previous game.  The Fillmore Eagles beat the Prattsburgh Vikings in OT. At the end one of the stars of the game for Fillmore, #33 Dylan Smith was greeted by his girlfriend with a kiss as one of the losing players from Prattsburgh walked by looking rather unhappy.  I thought it was a nice juxtaposition of emotion from the game.

Sign of the Times - 3/3/10 - photo by Tina Yee

I am sent to the scene of a rollover and I get there just as they start to move a person on a stretcher to the ambulance.  What do I see but the person using their mobile device.  It looked so strange especially in light of the flipped car .  I guess it’s the sign of the times because this is about the third or fourth time I’ve seen someone carted away on a stretcher with a cell phone attached to their ear.

A Taste of Snow - 02/26/10 - photo by Will Yurman

With my car stuck in my driveway this morning, buried under a foot of snow, I walked around my neighborhood looking for weather photos. Among the people I ran into were Gus Galambos, 2, and his dad, who were shoveling the driveway together, with Gus pausing to eat some snow.

Backstage at Peter Pan - 02/21/2010 - photo by Will Yurman

I’ve been working on a story on the Beckwith/Cohen family in the upcoming production of Peter Pan by Rochester Children’s Theatre.  Jodi Beckwith is playing Peter, her husband Stefan Cohen is Captain Hook and their two kids, Ethan and Tali, are a pirate and Lost Boy respectively. Sunday night all four were at rehearsal and Tali was backstage with the other Lost Boys watching Captain Hook and the pirates plot on stage.

Cuddle Time - 2/20/10 - photo by Tina Yee

I’m always looking looking looking when I’m shooting to see if there is something different to get as well.  I saw these two and they were so sweet.  I loved the way the daughter lovingly touched her mother.  The event was Governor David Paterson’s trip to Rochester to announce his candidacy.