A bunch of people from my church organized a bowling night at Lanes and Games (at a real bowling alley, not Wii bowling), which was super fun. We went on a Friday night, and the place was packed with people. The first floor was all candlestick bowling, which I had never seen before (sorry no pic)! I found out later that it was invented in Massachusetts, and you use three balls per round instead of two. The game is much harder since the ball is tiny. so I’m not sure if that game is for me. I find bowling hard enough already, but I did bowl a 101 my first game, which is probably my highest score ever!

I find sports photography to be one of the most challenging events to photograph. I haven’t done much of it, so I thought it would be fun to bring my camera and try to shoot some action shots. There were definitely some times during the night where I was ready to throw in the towel because there was no way I would get clean shot, so I had to embrace the grain and the motion blur. I ran into some other problems. The lighting at the bowling alley was extremely uneven and there was also nowhere to stand. It’s not very flattering if you try to take action shots from behind the bowler. Luckily, when the people next to our lane finished their game, I was able to use their lane to take a few profile pictures of some bowlers until the next group started bowling. That was sweet, because then I was able to finally able to take some nice shots.

I ended up converting all the pictures into black and white, but I couldn’t decide on which to use, so I have different types of black and white. Some have a brown tint, and some are more contrasty than others. Enjoy!