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cooperstown dreams park- games 5&6
More from Cooperstown. Finally a whole entire Royals team picture.
If you missed the story on this one when I posted it from Cooperstown there was apparently a nuclear explosion level of fart in the barracks and there was one culprit. Can you guess who? (reenactment here)
Mike.
Michael with a pickoff to first. 
Glenn.
Jack.
Jamie.
Johnny.
Anthony.
Zach.
Patrick and his sliding/diving catch. Which is so ridiculously blurry (yeah, I’m a photographer) but I couldn’t get rid of the picture cause it was a great play. 
Immediately after. Of course this one’s in focus.
Chase down. Anthony, Jack C, Glenn, and Jack.
Jamie.
Jack. And Patrick at first.
James making a great catch in the field.
Patrick and John.
Jack.
A little Royals cheer.
Afternoon game. Bobby.
Kevin.
James after getting hit in the ankle with Coaches John & John. (he was okay by the next day)
Jack. With Patrick at first again.
Brothers meeting on the mound.
Timmy and his buddy Mr. Allen. And his pins, of course. You can see the collection growing each day.
Timmy and his other best buddy Mr. McNiff. Who never ever smiles (for pictures or in real life) but Timmy can always make him smile. Always. Its awesome!!
He’s like the team mascot. 
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zoe’s workshop- part 1
A few weeks ago I attended a pretty amazing workshop by the totally amazing Zoe Berkovic in Warwick NY. I had a great time, learned lots of new things and met some fantastic new photografriends. Oh, and took some pictures. Here are just a few shots from the first day/part of shooting. We got to shoot in someone’s beautiful home with some great child models, all styled by Zoe.
I debated posting these (and the rest to come) as it’s really Zoe’s creation. Her models, her location, her styling, her directing- I just shot and post processed. So I feel like it’s not really MY work (and it would be pretty hard to take a bad shot of these gorgeous kids in gorgeous clothing in the gorgeous house) and it’s almost like cheating. But the images were pretty cool so I figured I’d share while I edit some of my client sessions. My angles aren’t the best as there were 7-8 other photographers shooting at the same time in some small spaces and I’m definitely not a highly competitive shooter- I kinda waited my turn and grabbed a few quickly and moved out of the way for someone else to go.
More from Zoe’s workshop to come soon.
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cooperstown dreams park- games 3&4
Baseball. That is pretty much all. Although we can add in baseball in the rain. Sooooo much better. (Not really at all.)
Anthony.
Bobby
Jack B.
Jamie. (it was a ball)
Johnny H. (I believe that this may have been his over the wall home run)
Patrick.
Jack B.
Kevin.
Have to get one of Anthony running at least once a game.
Jamie.
Jack C. (he was safe)
Timmy pin trading. He even got the owner’s (pictured on the left) special pin. How lucky! 
Kids would come around to see Timmy from the other dugouts, he would roll out his towel like a merchant in an Arab market and say “and what are you interested in?”
And when he wasn’t pin trading, he was playing catch with the other Royals kids, Mr. McNiff or Mr. Allen. 
Kevin. 
Johnny C. pitching and Jack B. at first.
Johnny C.
Jack C. (he was out)
Patrick.
Zach. (this was right before they had a rain delay)
Jack, Jamie and Bobby.
Michael making another great outfield catch.
Mrs. Klier and Julia- besties.
After a loss in the first game, it was time for a night game. It wasn’t all that bright even under the lights so as it got darker the pics got blurrier so I didn’t take many.Patrick.
Bobby.
Glenn.
Patrick.
Kevin.
A run down. Mike, Zach, Johnny H, Kevin, Anthony, Jamie. 
Still more to come soon.
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cooperstown dreams park- opening ceremonies & first two games
Finally, finally got to edit the Cooperstown pictures, so I’ll be posting a bunch over the next few days. Some of them you may have already seen a few of the photos on the blog, but putting them back in so that the story makes sense. Lots of new ones included though.
You know how much I don’t like baseball as a general rule, but I have to say that I had a really good time on this trip. I loved watching all the boys play, hanging out with all the amazingly great Royals parents and Dreams Park really is the Disney of baseball. Keep in mind I’m NO sports photographer, but I did my best from my spot in the parents dugout area. It’s very stressful watching the games thru the lens, trying to follow the game, cheer and not shake the camera!
Opening ceremonies- all 104 teams marched in with their banners. Then it was off to the ’round the horn, speed, home run, pitching accuracy competitions.
The boys waiting their turn for the ’round the horn competition. Johnny went to the home run derby, Jamie to the throwing accuracy, Anthony to the speed competition.
After the ceremonies, Timmy and I headed back to our hotel and all the boys went to get some sleep (I don’t know if that actually happened though) in the barracks for the first day of games the next morning. And so it begins…
Game One:
Michael pitching.
Zach.
James.
Jack C.
Johnny C.
Jamie (he was safe).
Johnny C.
Glenn, Johnny & Anthony.
Glenn.
Patrick.
Getting a little ‘atta boy’ after their first game which they lost. 
Game Two later that afternoon. It was really pretty there. 
Bobby warming up.
Patrick.
Patrick.
Johnny H.
Michael made some amazing catches in the field. 
Patrick did his share out there too.
Jamie hitting, Anthony running.
You cannot beat Anthony. 
Anthony.
Jack.
Bobby.
Jack C.
Timmy was having a great time, especially with the pin trading. More on that later. 
We were all invited over to the house the Ryans and Luvins were renting for a little pool party and bbq. So fun!
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first day
And they’re off. 8th grade & 2nd grade.
Going to miss them and not liking having to get up early every day, but glad for a bit of a schedule and not worrying if anyone is killing anyone else in the house when I run out for a few errands.
Jack on the left, Patrick on the right. And I’m just realizing they’re wearing the opposite colors than normal. They’re in 3 classes together this year for the first time ever since nursery school. That should confuse the hell out of everyone!
Timmy on line for his class with the giant, heavy box of supplies. 
So sad that he’s not in the same class as his two besties, but hoping for a great year anyway. I like how they’re small, medium and large. They were already making their recess plans so I’m sure they’ll still have some time together.
Just hoping for a great year for all 3 of my boys with good friends and good grades. I can’t believe the whole high school application process starts for Jack & Patrick in a few weeks. I’m so not ready.