River Hill Varsity Football

A couple of weeks ago, before my Idaho trip, I went shooting at the Varsity game at River Hill High School, in Clarksville, MD. It was an interesting experience. I didn't do as well as I would have liked. I switched to a different focus button on my camera and didn't have much luck with that. Also, they play at night, which is trickier to shoot than daytime football. Football can be tricky enough as it is - with the fast action and moving subjects - plus you need the long lens to even hope to get close to the action. So, I returned this past Friday for round two. I have two great friends, who are mentoring me - Nancy Hostetler and Lisa Hostetler - they're sister-in-laws and great photographers on their own. You can see their work on the River Hill Unofficial website under sports. They've been very generous with advice and I really appreciate it. I don't know if they want me to keep coming though - every time I go to a Varsity game, it rains. That just adds to the drama.

This second round I was a bit happier with. I got a lot more "keepers" and generally had a much better experience. Of course, as stated, it was raining, so you can see the rain in some the pictures. These are six I wanted to post to kind of give a taste of the game. River Hill played Mt. Hebron. They won 63 - 0. Lot of great action shots of River Hill (in the yellow pants). It was a hard night for Mt. Hebron, but they never gave up and played hard all night, in the rain.





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