Full disclosure

Hmm, it's been more than a month since the last blog. That's because we did nothing in July except shoot as many as six baseball games a day, the fair came as soon as that was over, and we've been recovering. But that's not the purpose of this blog entry...

As I've mentioned before, there are more events to cover than we can possibly photograph for Life in Corydon, particularly high school sports events. Frankly, we concentrate on the sports with the most fans -- football, basketball, soccer, track. We've also done some cross country, swimming, volleyball and tennis and some Vanguard competitions. Mostly we confine our coverage to stuff that happens at home; we can't travel very much.

Having said that, in the spirit of full disclosure, I need to tell you all that my grandson Zachary Webb (#3) plays on the soccer team, so I go to almost all of his games to at least watch. It wouldn't be fair to put all the boys soccer games I attend on the website, but I often take pictures anyway, sitting as a fan on the sidelines. When we cover a game for Life in Corydon, we like to "take you there." We go early and stay late, and take pictures of not only the game action, but all the other things that happen at the event. You can't do that from a chair on the sidelines.

So today I was at the soccer game against Meade County, a Kentucky powerhouse. We'd just published the first two boys soccer games and Monday's girls soccer game against the Meade County girls, so I was just going to be a fan and watch.

But I did take my camera with me, and having just looked at the pictures, I think I should share them. It's certainly not balanced coverage to put up yet another boys soccer game, nor is it our usual start-to-finish style, but photography is a funny thing. Sometimes pictures are hard to come by and sometimes they just jump into the camera. That's what happened today. Looking through them, at the urging of my dear wife (Zachary's grandmother), I decided I should make a slideshow for the fans of our website. And since it's in the spirit of Life in Corydon to share, that's what I've done.

And give it up for goalkeeper Josh Faulkenburg who didn't play a lot last year because starter Teddy Lasky did such a good job. Josh has had a lot of opportunities to learn this year -- Providence scored 5 goals against the Panthers, Jennings County had 6 and the bullies from Meade County tallied 9. Talk about learning under fire...he's had some awesome saves.