Winter sports start

Saturday, Nov. 4, kicks off the winter sports season. The girls basketball team travels to Tell City for a scrimmage. Boys first game is Nov. 16. Girls swimming starts Nov. 27 at Charlestown, boys swimming Nov. 30 at Southridge. Wrestling opens with a meet at New Washington on Nov. 29.

Basketball is an interesting challenge for us at Life in Corydon. The Corydon High School gym has lights which give a reddish cast to pictures taken without flash. It's bad enough that Alan Stewart of the Democrat sets up portable strobe lights to overpower the existing overheads.

Basketball is also problematic because it's a sport that photographers think of as vertical. That is, the players are tall, the action is largely vertical, so most photographers hold their cameras to make vertical pictures. Your computer monitor, however, is horizontal, just like your television. So it doesn't make any sense for us to try to post vertical pictures on a horizontal monitor. Making horizontal pictures of basketball, though, is a challenge.

We'll do our best to be up to it.