5/22/2010 - Hockey Game vs. Torspo

5/23/2010 - Hockey game vs Iceman

5/21/1010 - Hockey Game vs. Thunder Bay

5/20/1010 - Hockey Game vs. Easton

5/18/2010 - Baseball Game vs. Yankees

5/17/2010 - Chomonix

Centennial Little League - Blue Jays 5/14/2010

Blue Jays vs. DiamondBacks

Blue Jays vs. Cardinals

Centennial Little League - Blue Jays vs. Cardinals

Centennial Little League - Blue Jays 5/5/2010

vs. Red Sox

Northern Wings Hockey Tournament

Spent the weekend of 4/29/2010 through 5/2/2010 in Duluth at the Northern Wings Hockey Tournament. Below are various photos from the hockey tournament as well as some shots from our hotel room overlooking the Duluth lift bridge.

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Hockey practice 4/27/2010

Tried manually adjusting the white balance at the practice.

2010 Minnesota Meltdown

2nd place finish for Skate to Excellence, incredible effort.  Congratulations to the Manitoba Thunderbolts who defeated Skate to Excellence 3-2 (in overtime) in the final game.

Hockey Scrimmage vs. Andover

Scrimmage vs. Andover. Win 6-2.

Hockey Game 4/17/2010

Game vs. Roseville.  Loss 6-2, but a valiant effort by Centennial.

Baseball Practice

Baseball practice - LaMont field in Centerville, MN

Super Rink #7 - Blaine

Took some pics last night at my sons Showcase hockey game. Not a good outcome in the win/loss category. However, got some god pics.

Centennial Cougar High School Boys - 2/27/2010

Had a front row seat to an area high school boys high school game.  Great opportunity to take some pictures.  Anticipating the action is absolutely required being on the glass.

First Post

Starting this blog to publicly document learning photography from an absolute novice perspective.

My son is a goalie for a MN hockey team and I wanted to take pictures of him in action.  After a fair amount of research the following is my set-up:

• Sony A330 DSLR camera
• The camera came as a package deal with a couple of stock lenses
• For capturing quality pictures in an ice arena, a good quality lense is needed, we decided on this Tamron lense
• After some time with this set-up, a mono-pod is needed as the camera and lense is rather heavy for an hour plus hockey game.  We just purchased a cheap mono-pod from a local electronics store.
• A good bag to hold all of the above that is easy to carry around is also absolutely beneficial.  Doing a fair amount of research, we settled on the Urban Disguise 35 bag.

The above is just a quick summary of the set-up.  Future posts will discuss other topics related photography.